From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 21:14:44 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4605E16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:14:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [204.156.12.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1729543D3F for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:14:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5186746B4F; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:14:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:13:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: "Andrew L. Gould" In-Reply-To: <200502091349.00708.algould@datawok.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Logo Contest X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:14:44 -0000 On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > I'd like to voice my support for the logo competition. > > I was particularly pleased to read a comment on Daemon News that Beastie > would remain the mascot and that the logo and mascot are being > separated. I am hopeful that this comment was accurate. > > ...now, if I could only draw...... The comment is accurate. We'd like to get a logo we can provide to companies that are willing to stick it on their products as "supporting FreeBSD" -- while we all love the Daemon, we know that not every company can stick it on their Ethernet card box or server support web page. The intent is to keep Beastie as the Mascot, and you'll still see him all over the place. I can't imagine that FreeBSD t-shirts will stop holding him, let alone the large number of web pages, CDROM distributions, and so on. And don't forget the stuffed animal Beasties :-). For entertainment value, I should scan in the anonymous letter I received from someone in Kansas a few years ago. It compared the Beastie to using Osama Bin Laden as the FreeBSD logo, and was CC'd to my company and research sponsors. It's a classic :-). Of course, it wasn't appreciated at work because this was a bit after the anthrax scare, and anonymous mailed envelopes weren't real popular. Robert N M Watson