Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-17 Thread Bogart Salzberg
On Mar 9, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2008 06:06:37 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: - Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I also would like to spend some Debian money

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 06:06:37 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: - Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the FreeBSD logo

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 01 March 2008 11:44:02 pm Chris Bannister wrote: http://www.rastageeks.org/~toots/debian/bisounours-debian.jpg No me gusta! -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 09:08:13 am Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:48:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: It's very disturbing that you know so much lolcode. He probably wrote the debian-installer. It lol when it sees my old boxes. Whahaha! you're still using a box

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 03 March 2008 03:07:27 am Richard Lyons wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:44:14PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: [...] http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/calimero.jpg http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/little_pinguin.jpg Excellent for breaking into the primary school market! I

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 08:44:57 pm Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: ... Many of my windows using mates are at least familiar with Tux, even though many have only ever used linux at my place (and then only using firefox to check email, hardly the

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 06 March 2008 03:25:25 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Or, was there a pig in Toy Story? Does Pixar use Debian on its boxes and would they lend us non-exclusive rights to use the image? Yup, and there was even a Debian version named after him. Hamm. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 28 February 2008 03:09:48 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:30:23PM -0800, debian azul wrote: Debian does not need a friendly mascot. That is ridiculous. Debian is well known because it is great work not because its appearance is nice or cool. There are many

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:37:38PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2008 03:09:48 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I'd be very interested in Debian, with aptitude, etc, with the OpenBSD kernel. To me, this would be the best of both worlds. Debian, being the universal

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 09 March 2008 05:53:50 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:37:38PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2008 03:09:48 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I'd be very interested in Debian, with aptitude, etc, with the OpenBSD kernel. To me, this would be

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:07:27PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:44:14PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: [...] http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/calimero.jpg http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/little_pinguin.jpg Excellent for breaking into the primary school market!

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-06 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 04:38 +0100, s. keeling wrote: debian azul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think that debian logo is perfect for debian project. Debian doesn't need a mascot. I think that is ridiculos Killjoy. You're right of course, but the ammonite has its charms. It's not like it's a

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
s. keeling wrote: Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 28 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: Debian could use an image revamp, last night i was messing with a There is a revamped

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dotan Cohen wrote: On 04/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: watts, with 32MB ram, at a frequency in the FM band? Your CPU runs at a frequency in the FM band? That's the funniest thing I've ever heard! I am going to recycle that

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:38:59AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: debian azul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think that debian logo is perfect for debian project. Debian doesn't need a mascot. I think that is ridiculos Killjoy. You're right of course, but the ammonite has its charms. It's not like

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:04:58AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 04/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: watts, with 32MB ram, at a frequency in the FM band? Your CPU runs at a frequency in the FM band? That's the funniest thing I've ever heard! I am going to recycle that joke

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-06 Thread s. keeling
Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 04:38 +0100, s. keeling wrote: Killjoy. You're right of course, but the ammonite has its charms. But due to the ammonite be an extincted mascot, I think it reinforces the general believe out there that debian stable is an

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-05 Thread debian azul
I think that debian logo is perfect for debian project. Debian doesn't need a mascot. I think that is ridiculos

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-05 Thread s. keeling
debian azul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think that debian logo is perfect for debian project. Debian doesn't need a mascot. I think that is ridiculos Killjoy. You're right of course, but the ammonite has its charms. It's not like it's a care bear or Tux. I preferred the Arctic Tern (?) that

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 04/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: watts, with 32MB ram, at a frequency in the FM band? Your CPU runs at a frequency in the FM band? That's the funniest thing I've ever heard! I am going to recycle that joke to death! Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:48:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: It's very disturbing that you know so much lolcode. He probably wrote the debian-installer. It lol when it sees my old boxes. Whahaha! you're still using a box that has no fan, uses 20 watts, with 32MB ram, at a

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:48:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/03/08 23:32, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... HAI CAN HAZ DOODZ? I HAZ A VAR TELLAT DOODZ aptitude search lol GIMME DOODZ IN TEH VAR IZ VAR MT? NOWAI VISIBLE ROXORZ!!!1! YARLY

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:44:14PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: [...] http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/calimero.jpg http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/little_pinguin.jpg Excellent for breaking into the primary school market! richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:47:01 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:12:48PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:21:41 -0800, David Fox wrote: On 3/1/08, Chris Bannister wrote:

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-03 Thread s. keeling
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:12:48PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:21:41 -0800, David Fox wrote: On 3/1/08, Chris Bannister wrote: http://www.rastageeks.org/~toots/debian/bisounours-debian.jpg no no care

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/08 23:32, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:12:24AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:12:48PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: I ARE STABLE CAT... THIS IS

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:12:24AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:12:48PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: I ARE STABLE CAT... THIS IS STABLE DISTRIBUSHON. I'M ON UR SERVER, RUNNING UR DEBIAN we could change the

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-02 Thread David Fox
On 3/1/08, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.rastageeks.org/~toots/debian/bisounours-debian.jpg no no care bears :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:21:41 -0800, David Fox wrote: On 3/1/08, Chris Bannister wrote: http://www.rastageeks.org/~toots/debian/bisounours-debian.jpg no no care bears :) What about lolcats? I ARE STABLE CAT... THIS IS STABLE DISTRIBUSHON. I'M ON UR SERVER, RUNNING UR DEBIAN etc.

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:12:48PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:21:41 -0800, David Fox wrote: On 3/1/08, Chris Bannister wrote: http://www.rastageeks.org/~toots/debian/bisounours-debian.jpg no no care bears :) What about lolcats? I ARE STABLE

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-01 Thread Chuck Rhode
Andrew Henry wrote this on Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:00:15PM +0100. My reply is below. I've always thought it was quite a fitting icon for a free software distro, but I suppose it means different things to different people. The light blue on blue background splash reminds me of a Tidybowl

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:55:08AM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: I love the cream swirling into the coffee graphic that was a bootsplash at some point. Don't know if it's still around, but it sure captures my image of debian. If it doesn't even remotely hint of Java i'll vote for that. A cup

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:26:26AM +, Peter Tynan wrote: On 28/02/2008, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: This message was posted by Sam Hocevar (current Debian Project Leader) ... I also would

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 06:14:22PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: This message was posted by Sam Hocevar (current Debian Project Leader) ... I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I love the cream swirling into the coffee graphic that was a bootsplash at some point. Don't know if it's still around, but it sure captures my image of debian. If it doesn't even remotely hint of Java i'll vote for that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-29 Thread Patter
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:00:15 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: I love the cream swirling into the coffee graphic that was a bootsplash at some point. Don't know if it's still around, but it sure captures my image of debian. If it doesn't even remotely hint of Java i'll vote for that. I made a

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-29 Thread Andrew Henry
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: The Debian Swirl reminds me of some kind of worm or shellfish. The Debian HookWorm? The Debian RingWorm? Digs into your Sole (Soul)? Lord of the RingWorm? The Debian Tapeworm? Makes you hungry for more! The Debian Krill? (Eaten by Puffy?) The Debian Swirl, as

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:14:15PM -0600, cothrige wrote: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have to say, there is nothing friendly about that damn gnu. And that statement is in no way a reflection on my views of GNU or it's projects. Just that if we're gonna have a

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 28 February 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:22:01AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'd rather the same effort be put into the things that give Debian its uniqueness in the first place. Maybe I'm a snob on the sysadmin/programmer end of things, but if someone

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:03:37PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: DISCLAIMER: I'm not saying mandrake (driva) is better, just that the installer is prettier, and lets face it, since you only run it once, why not make installing an eyecandy experience. Because then it doesn't run well on

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:30:23PM -0800, debian azul wrote: Debian does not need a friendly mascot. That is ridiculous. Debian is well known because it is great work not because its appearance is nice or cool. There are many projects that have been working in beautiful distributions from

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 00:03, Rich Healey wrote: [snip] DISCLAIMER: I'm not saying mandrake (driva) is better, just that the installer is prettier, and lets face it, since you only run it once, why not make installing an eyecandy experience. Doug calls

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread s. keeling
Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: - Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:03:40AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can't call it the Debian Shrimp since its nees so much memory... Bite your tongue: (0) phreaque /home/keeling_ free total used free sharedbuffers cached

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:06:37PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: - Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the FreeBSD logo

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread s. keeling
Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 28 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: Debian could use an image revamp, last night i was messing with a There is a revamped image with a new logo and an easy to use

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread s. keeling
Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd be very interested in Debian, with aptitude, etc, with the OpenBSD kernel. To me, this would be the best of both worlds. http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD?highlight=%28freebsd%29 -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 06:09:48PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Next time I have a spare box, I'll work on having an OpenBSD main system with Debian in a chroot once I tried it with FreeBSD 4.x chroot /debian/ gave a nice bash prompt, but anything needing to access /dev/ or /proc/ had

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Chuck Rhode
s. keeling wrote this on Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:03:40AM +0100. My reply is below. There was an ancient, giant snail sort of thing (whose name escapes me) which spent it's life floating in the ocean wherever the currwent took it. Some fossils are a few feet across. Ah, yes, the ammonites:

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: This message was posted by Sam Hocevar (current Debian Project Leader) ... 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

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: - Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Peter Tynan
On 28/02/2008, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: This message was posted by Sam Hocevar (current Debian Project Leader) ... I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread cothrige
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have to say, there is nothing friendly about that damn gnu. And that statement is in no way a reflection on my views of GNU or it's projects. Just that if we're gonna have a mascot, I lean more towards the penguin/snarky-devil side of the

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Tynan wrote: I have to say, there is nothing friendly about that damn gnu. And that statement is in no way a reflection on my views of GNU or it's projects. Just that if we're gonna have a mascot, I lean more towards the penguin/snarky-devil

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: ... Many of my windows using mates are at least familiar with Tux, even though many have only ever used linux at my place (and then only using firefox to check email, hardly the grandest most eye opening event). Debian is not aimed at the same

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: ... Many of my windows using mates are at least familiar with Tux, even though many have only ever used linux at my place (and then only using firefox to check email, hardly the

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 28 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: ... Many of my windows using mates are at least familiar with Tux, even though many have only ever used linux at my place (and then only using firefox to check email,

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:22:01AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'd rather the same effort be put into the things that give Debian its uniqueness in the first place. Maybe I'm a snob on the sysadmin/programmer end of things, but if someone has a reason to need Debian instead of Ubuntu, if

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:22:01AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'd rather the same effort be put into the things that give Debian its uniqueness in the first place. Maybe I'm a snob on the sysadmin/programmer end of

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread cothrige
Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a revamped image with a new logo and an easy to use GUI installer one can use if Debian is an issue. It's a fairly large project. Here's a link to it: http://ubuntu.com. (I notice, when checking that home page that it seems like it's been

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread debian azul
Debian does not need a friendly mascot. That is ridiculous. Debian is well known because it is great work not because its appearance is nice or cool. There are many projects that have been working in beautiful distributions from Debian. If somebody works with Debian needs to be responsible not

Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
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