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Re: Let's take Moskus as the Hurd animal!
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Patrick Strasser |
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Re: Let's take Moskus as the Hurd animal! |
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Mon, 10 Jun 2002 23:58:47 +0200 |
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Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
What's wrong with the baby gnu by Etienne Suvasa [1]?
[1]: http://www.gnu.org/graphics/babygnu.html
I think the Baby GNU is best suited in the moment. We are not
"full-grown", so this could be a logo until the next official release.
Even more important: it is very cute and avokes some protective
<http://dict.leo.org/?search=protective&p=/B/V.> instinct
<http://dict.leo.org/?search=instinct&p=/B/V.> s. So this may sound a
bit strange, but I think this is, what a mascot is all about: our
little <logoname>, that we all love and that we are proud of,
representing our work and all the time and struggle we put into it.
Moreover it represents the attitude. And I always had the feeling that
people were welcome on the Hurd project. I think the Baby GNU makes all
this quite clear, Much better than some big animal.
I understand that people want to represent the Hurd as a herd of GNUs,
but I see 4 problems with this representation:
*) its not quite sympathetic, not cute at all
*) its not funny - a good laughter in the very first moment is a big
advantage
*) it is hard to draw a small clear logo with a reasonable herd of big
animals on it
*) it does not represent the current state
Just an additional thought: I found Tux always quite clumsy. He is
usually sitting arround, not making a whiff of a move. That never made a
good impression to me.
Patrick
--
Engineers motto: cheap, good, fast: choose any two
Patrick Strasser <pstrasser at bigfoot dot de>
Student of Telematik, Techn. University Graz, Austria
- Re: Let's take Moskus as the Hurd animal!, (continued)
- Re: Let's take Moskus as the Hurd animal!, Christian Mertes, 2002/06/05
- Re: Let's take Moskus as the Hurd animal!, James Morrison, 2002/06/05
- Re: Let's take Moskus as the Hurd animal!, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/06/05
- Re: Let's take Moskus as the Hurd animal!, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2002/06/05
- Re: Let's take Moskus as the Hurd animal!, Christian Mertes, 2002/06/05
- Re: Let's take Moskus as the Hurd animal!, Christian Mertes, 2002/06/05
- Re: Let's take Moskus as the Hurd animal!,
Patrick Strasser <=
- Re: Let's take Moskus as the Hurd animal!, Robert Millan, 2002/06/10
- of herds and mascots and logotypes (was: ... Moskus...), Joshua Judson Rosen, 2002/06/10
Re: Let's take Moskus as the Hurd animal!, Ottavio Campana, 2002/06/05