From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Apr 18 13:58:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F00214C9D for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:58:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.30.149] (rts16p20.xyp.rpi.edu [128.113.30.149]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA32042; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 16:55:50 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <2425.924447058@zippy.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Sun, 18 Apr 1999 09:28:09 CDT." <19990418092809.B37740@holly.dyndns.org> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 16:56:38 -0400 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: FreeBSD Friendly Icon Cc: chrisc@vmunix.com, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Garance Alistair Drosehn Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:50 AM -0700 4/18/99, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > ..., we just saw a need for a little variety and we'd been using > the same image for a couple of years. OK, so perhaps a tail-less > waiter wasn't the best idea for a replacement we've ever had, but > I'm still more than keen to see alternative images (and put out a > call for same long before I ever contracted for the > waiter/news/bug/docs/release related images). I had some ideas for an image back at the 3.0 release, but I seem to be having some trouble getting an artistic friend of mine to draw them up. (if I were to draw it, no one will have any clue what it is!) In addition to Jordan's request for images at the time, what got me thinking was that I wanted something which 'worked better' for multiple CPU configurations. An icon with one BSD daemon standing around can be cute-ish, but when you have two or four of them just standing there it looks more like they're just a group of loafers loitering on a street corner... So, I wanted something that implied 'harnessing power', and something which would scale up to 'multiple' of whatever was being harnessed. One idea was to have the BSD daemon in a sled, powered by something like an Alaskan malamute. The sled could be carrying CD's, or maybe it shouldn't be obvious what it's carrying. Multi-processor systems (such as web sites) could just modify this to include more malamutes (an alaskan malamute is any of a breed of powerful heavy-coated deep-chested dogs of Alaskan origin with erect ears, heavily cushioned feet, and plumy tail, used for pulling sleds). The other idea was the BSD daemon on some kind of stage-coach, being pulled by sea horses. I forget why I wanted seahorses over regular horses. Basically I haven't thought about this one quite as much as the malamute one. I think one of these could work out pretty good, if I could just get someone who was a bit faster at drawing than my friend seems to be. (it's been, what, six months now?), and considerably better at drawing than I am (unless you want some stick figures...). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message