Re: Are we too serious these days? Let's go electing an official mascot.

[thisguyisi]

Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> on 10/26/03 1:57 PM, Yen-Ju Chen at yjchenx@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > How about chameleon or leaf-tail gecko ?
> > They are slow (progress of GNUstep) and live in various environment
> > from dessert to rain forest (portability).
> > Althgouth they are opposite to big cat (MacOS X),
> > most of them are predator, too.
> >   
> chameleon is good. It is very characteristic and could symbolize the ability
> of GNUstep and GNUSTEP to run on a variety or platforms. The animal is nice
> and can be stylized well. Tehy are very cute btw. And they are FAST
> predators when it comes to catch the prey :-)
>
> -Riccardo
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I like the idea of the chameleon  as a mascot. 

It does symbolize adaptability (chromatophores blending its appearance
to match its surroundings/camoflauge), which is true of the various
OPENSTEP variants, read: OPENSTEP/NT Enterprise w/ Windows NT
camoflauge, Rhapsody with a Mac OS camoflauge, Mac OS X with new Aqua
camoflauge, but all OpenStep implementations at the core.

Salamanders could also be a good mascot: there are many shapes and
sizes and appearances, yet all are very good at adaptation, being
amphibious and all. They also make a good representation of the
different packages/ implementations of the same species as an analogue
to the different packaged implementations of OpenStep implementations.
Plus, they are also "slick" and "cute" and "kewl" in varying degrees.

My contribution,
-Lee