[advocacy-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Logo/Mascot for OpenSolaris

[Simon Phipps]

On Jun 22, 2007, at 23:36, Jim Grisanzio wrote:

> I always liked the polar bear.

Me too.  The one Chandan drew was gorgeous, sunglasses and all.

> Many times. In fact this conversation started back in the pilot  
> program and has cropped up from time to time on the marketing and  
> UG lists (which are now advocacy-discuss). I think there are  
> trademark issues, but I'm not speaking from any real knowledge on  
> that. Sara is quite knowledgeable on this, though, so I'm sure  
> she'll chime in.

Great idea to get Sara to pipe up, yes. This is one of those things  
were an actual Marketing Professional might be involved. This stuff  
is actually hard, subtle and benefits from experience. I know us  
engineers are expert at /everything/ but, well, y'know...

> I agree with Steve. I don't think the OGB has a role here. I think  
> the (soon to be opened) Advocacy CG can work on this, fix all the  
> known issues, and then go to the larger community.

I agree, this is a job for the Advocacy CG. The OGB is only needed if  
there's a dispute that can't be resolved. It's possible we may want  
to get ideas in the Advocacy CG, then request Sun's marketing people  
to check them out for us and commission some professional artwork,  
and then have an OpenSolaris-wide Contributor vote to choose between  
the options that would actually work.

S.