Mascot - Blue Arrara

Dimitris Glezos dimitris at glezos.com
Mon Apr 9 18:02:58 UTC 2007


O/H Máirín Duffy έγραψε:
> Alex Maier wrote:
>> On 4/9/07, Máirín Duffy <duffy at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Linux has tux the penguin
>>> BSD has chuck the demon guy
>>
>> Yes as logos, and we have one too, just not one that is easily made in
>> form of a cuddly stuffed doll.

Actually, both these are mascots, not logos. Linux doesn't even have a logo and
FreeBSD just 2 years ago created a logo that resembles the daemon's head [1].

Linus himself describes the need for a mascot better in [2].

 [1]:http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9605/1203.html
 [2]: http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/

> And herein lies the problem. The licensing/etc issues around the logo
> have made it such that it can be difficult for community members to
> actually use it (eg Fedora art team) or even interpretations of it.
> 
> For the community to create something that they made and own would be
> nice, I think. And it's nice to have something cuddly to give out at
> conference booths. Maybe I'm silly tho.

Judging from how successful these mascots have been and how often they've been
used in so many events and places, I'd say that our community (too) would get
benefited from a mascot.

If we do decide to go on with the mascot idea, the next logical step would be to
announce a contest for mascot ideas in public (something like the OpenVideo
contest [3]). I guess FAB should be notified before that.

 [3]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenVideo

-d


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