From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 22:25:31 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 3172B16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:25:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dustpuppy.tbc.net (tbc2.tbc.net [207.112.224.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADEB643D48 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:25:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from harrison@tbc.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by dustpuppy.tbc.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E2311C93B for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:25:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from dustpuppy.tbc.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dustpuppy.tbc.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20160-03 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:25:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from [209.100.183.159] (adsl-183-159.tbcnet.com [209.100.183.159]) by dustpuppy.tbc.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 973E311C8F2 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:25:41 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <420A8E66.8080703@tbc.net> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:27:50 -0600 From: Shawn Harrison User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at tbc.net 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 22:25:31 -0000 Robert Watson wrote [02/09/05 3:13 PM]: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Andrew L. Gould wrote: >> >> 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. > > 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 :-). I'm glad to hear this, because the announcement paragraph about "religious sensitivities" would certainly lead one to a different conclusion. If what you're saying is honest, then that paragraph is entirely beside the point. The real point is to have a professional looking _logo_ to _complement_ (not replace) the cute mascot. That makes sense. Replacing the mascot with something else for the reasons cited in that paragraph does not make sense. -- Shawn Harrison