From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 21 06:10:48 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA18886 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 06:10:48 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA18880 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 06:10:47 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: A "FreeBSD" Daemon? Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 06:10:47 -0800 Message-ID: <18879.793375847@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It has been decided here that the 2.1 CD is going to be released with posters, t-shirts and (if I get my way! :) coffee mugs, all covered with the smiling face of our favorite little daemon character. These will be *promotional* items, targeted at journalists, dealers and of course FreeBSD contributors of note. I do not know at this time if we'll be actually selling any of them, but this remains to be determined (PLEASE do NOT send me mail asking to buy any of the mentioned items - I will certainly send out additional announcements when and if it's appropriate to do so). In any case, the purpose of this posting is to solicit suggestions as to what exactly we'll be putting on the promo items. We have the choice to do the same old thing, namely Kirk's 4.3BSD daemon (it's generally acknowledged that the 4.4BSD daemon isn't anywhere near as popular with the BSD devotees!), or we can do something entirely new! We have several professional artists here at Walnut Creek CDROM and it's well within the realm of possibility for us to do special pictures of the daemon running, jumping, pole-vaulting, writing code, servicing a combine harvester, whatever we think is a particularly "FreeBSD" associated activity. This is all with Kirk's blessing and has been worked out with him in advance. The NetBSD folks (well, Theo) did a tee-shirt where they had multiple daemons straining over a pile of broken terminals to erect a "NetBSD" flag, in they style of the classic "Marines at Iwo Jima" photograph. I always thought that this was a better shirt than ours in that they at least tried to do something creative rather than just slapping the same old daemon on a shirt. Of course, it may very well be that the overwhelming majority of FreeBSD folks out there LIKE the "classic" daemon and would react as strongly as people did when Coca-Cola changed the recipe! :-) Either way, I'd like to know. If we do decide to go with a special daemon, I also promise to make GIFs of it available long before the first shirt goes out so you all have a chance to comment on the artwork itself. So, send me your suggestions! If your idea wins, I promise you a free set of FreeBSD shirts, mugs, pens, posters, bubble gum cards, condoms, etc! Jordan