From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 21:01:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE7816A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:01:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from m22s13.vlinux.de (m22s13.vlinux.de [83.151.29.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEAF243D1F for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:01:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martin@ibert.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=lucca.dyndns.info) by m22s13.vlinux.de with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1D0nLR-0001QG-5n; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:01:25 +0000 Received: by lucca.dyndns.info (delivery server) (Exim 4.44) id 1D0nLQ-000EhP-LC; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:01:24 +0100 Received: from volterra.home.ibert.com ([192.168.198.22]) by lucca.dyndns.info with esmtp (Exim 4.44 (FreeBSD)) id 1D0nLQ-000EhH-2b; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:01:24 +0100 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.0.300 [265.8.8]); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:01:24 +0100 Message-ID: <421111A3.9040302@ibert.com> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:01:23 +0100 From: Martin Ibert User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.0.1.13; AVE: 6.29.0.11; VDF: 6.29.0.124; host: lucca.dyndns.info) Subject: Logo contest?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:01:34 -0000 Hi, I'm at a loss about whom to contact, since the PR slot on the contacts page only says "seat open". So I tried "questions". I've read on slashdot that you entertain the notion of running a FreeBSD logo contest. As a long-time user of FreeBSD, both professionally and privately, I seriously question the wisdom of doing so. For us old-timers in the IT field, the Beastie logo has always been a reassuring point of reference. BSD code has been renowned for being rock-solid, brilliantly engineered, and all that has been symbolized by the daemon logo. But alas! All your sibling projects that I am aware of have chickened out and chosen some other imagery as their logo (NetBSD, the faceless banner; OpenBSD, the fat fish; Dragonfly, what choice did they have?). You are the last one standing, the carrier of the flag. Please, don't chicken out like the others. Carry Chuck, the Beastie, forward into the new millennium, as a reassuring presence that excellence in coding is still alive and kicking (or be it with sneakers). Yours sincerely Martin Ibert -- I have this theory that the universe page faulted and is now executing garbage from the heap ... -- Mike Scandizzo, "Boat Anchor", 2000-04-05 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Ibert, , .