Re: About the mascot

2007-08-22 Thread María Leandro
I think is a delicated issue. To pic a mascot, we should think about animals in danger of extinction, but this would unduly favour some of them. So when I made my propose, I was thinking not just of one, rather, of several, but to make a unique mascot that could be more symbolic. (don't wanna say

Re: About the mascot

2007-08-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
María Leandro wrote: I think is a delicated issue. To pic a mascot, we should think about animals in danger of extinction, but this would unduly favour some of them. So when I made my propose, I was thinking not just of one, rather, of several, but to make a unique mascot that could be more

About the mascot

2007-08-21 Thread Karel Boissinot
Anybody thought of using a butterfly for the mascott? I really suck at drawing things so I can't say I have made a sketch, but I got inspired looking at this picture: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/images/3d_bubble_07.svg The reflected logo kinda makes it look like the bottom wings of a

Re: About the mascot

2007-08-21 Thread Michael Beckwith
I don't think that's a good idea at all, no offence, because Microsoft uses a butterfly a lot, and that's not what we want to associate Fedora with. I'm still torn on the need for a mascot or not, so I don't really have any suggestions in replacement of this. However on the mascot wiki, I did kind

Re: About the mascot

2007-08-21 Thread Christopher David Desjardins
I think the human mascots are too anime looking. I think a goat (perhaps a mountain goat standing on the top of a mountain of free/open software? but please nothing resembling the GNU logo) or the platypus sound like great ideas to me. The platypus is an extremely fascinating animal. Another

Re: About the mascot

2007-08-21 Thread Michael Beckwith
I think what we need to do first is determine an animal or whatnot that symbolizes what Fedora is about. For instance, we always see owls as wise, and elephants as forgetful, etc. On 8/21/07, Christopher David Desjardins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the human mascots are too anime looking.

Re: About the mascot

2007-08-21 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 15:34 -0500, Michael Beckwith wrote: I think what we need to do first is determine an animal or whatnot that symbolizes what Fedora is about. For instance, we always see owls as wise, and elephants as forgetful, etc. The problem with that is that such representations mean

Re: About the mascot

2007-08-21 Thread Martin Sourada
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 22:40 +0200, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 15:34 -0500, Michael Beckwith wrote: I think what we need to do first is determine an animal or whatnot that symbolizes what Fedora is about. For instance, we always see owls as wise, and elephants as