This message was posted by Sam Hocevar (current Debian Project Leader) to the debian-devel-announce mailing list. I am forwarding a part of it which might be of interest to the debian-user community.
----- Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- [...] Marketing team -------------- At the various conferences I attended I have paid much attention to how other distributions and FOSS projects were promoting their work, and despite us often having t-shirts, stickers and posters like the others, we really miss a few things which would make Debian as appealing as other, dynamic projects. I would like to set up a Debian Marketing Team, whose work would be to organise all the promotional stuff (logos, t-shirt designs, wallpapers, etc.) so that the project can officially endorse good designs, and to make the ultimate decision on visual stuff such as CD covers, splash screens, etc. This team would have official DPL delegation, but I hope that it can also work with non-Debian-developers, as many packaging teams already do, because the non-DDs know better than us how to draw people to Debian. So please let me know if you are interested, even if you are not a DD, and especially if you are not a programmer! I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the Debian project (in a similar way to the Linux penguin or the GNU gnu) that we can use where the logo is not enough. More on this in a few days. [...] [2] http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/result/ [...] ----- End forwarded message ----- Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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