[advocacy-discuss] Logo/Mascot Continued...

[Simon Phipps]

Since when has Coke been an open source project? I could believe  
people would associate something monster-like with Mozilla, but your  
anti-bear-ness is struggling to find a rationale there :-)

S.

On Jul 7, 2007, at 15:29, Sara Dornsife wrote:

> In coming up with a mascot we have to consider other mascots as  
> well as the image we want to portray.
>
> Polar Bear - Coke
> Dragon - Mozilla
>
> Even though these suggestions are different looking than those, we  
> probably can't use them.
> Sara
>
>
> Robert Lunnon wrote:
>> Rob Giltrap wrote:
>>
>>> I've finally had a chance to catch up on some OpenSolaris lists and
>>> liked the logo/mascot discussion particularly Bob's suggestion of a
>>> newly hatched dragon.
>>>
>>> I set my 10 year old daughter to work (as it is the school  
>>> holidays) and
>>> she produced a nice concept picture...
>>>
>>> http://thermo-nz.blogspot.com/2007/07/scale.html
>>>
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>> Thanks for that, it's sort of what I imagined though I would just  
>> have
>> two egg halves to simplify the imagery. Anyway, after looking at your
>> concept I have had a few thoughts,
>>
>> 1. The old Matron Dragon (Solaris) lays the egg and fies off into the
>> sun  (Old Solaris (sun) symbol which then goes dull)
>> 2. The baby (scale) hatches (Birth of OpenSolaris - Child of Solaris)
>> 3. Baby scale, takes off toward a dull sun
>> 4. Baby Scale torches the dull sun which lights up and becomes the  
>> new
>> Solaris (rising sun) symbol
>> or
>> 3. Baby scale sees a linux penguin and torches it.
>> 4. Penguin bursts into flames (New solaris symbol)
>> .
>> Just think in 2018 we can do a teen dragon, how cool would that be.
>>
>>
>> It's just a pity I can't draw.....
>>
>> Bob
>>
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