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

[Dirk Wetter]

On 10.07.2007 19:18, Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:

> On 10.07.2007 18:19, Dale Ghent wrote:
>
>> Perhaps coming up with a mascot and/or logo is something that should
>> be fielded as a contest and let the graphic designers amongst us work
>> their magic.

Yes, a good idea.

The majority of the people ("we") subscribed are

a) not very good at graphical/designer stuff (it's for
   a good portion also a marketing issue)

b) "We" are not even sure what it should tell people.
   Instead "we" put the cart before the horse: looking
   for a logo/mascot and try to find out whether it is
   somehow related to what "we" think it should express.

c) this thread is leading nowhere IMO. There's no
   single leader who says "this is it".
   Supposed if somebody comes up w/ a good suggestion
   for a good number of people here: how can anybody
   tell? There must be a voting system (democratic approach).


What I would suggest is

1) good designers should be found (see a).
  Either amongst us (doubt that there will be enough,
  I liked the idea of the hatching dragon though).

  Or: Sun could hire them if they don't have any.
  It might be also good to approach a designer like
  "hey, we have this cool project and this is about
   this and that. What kind of logo would express
   our project? Or would you rather pick a mascot?"

  Or: A public contest (definitely not limited to the scope
  of this mailing list) might be an alternative, of course
  there should be a reward.

2) Suggestions need to be preselected based on some criteria:
   - is/was this logo/mascot used somewhere else?
   - could there be legal implications?
   - ...
   (If it is a public contest, there might be other
   criteria.)

   10 logos/mascots would be the outcome here (one
   or two hired designers would have that much output
   anyway)

   A jury would do the preselection.


3) Public voting within the OpenSolaris community about the
   10 proposals.


> Apart from not being sure we need a mascot, but for some reason
> "design by contest" followed by popular vote leeds to suhc
> horrific accidents as EURO coins and bills.


In general they aren't bad IMO, coins of some countries are
a little bit boring though ...


Cheers,
	Dirk