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

[Brian Gupta]

On 6/25/07, Ron Kleinman <Ron.Kleinman at sun.com> wrote:
> Brian Gupta wrote:
> > On 6/25/07, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> wrote:
> >> Simon Phipps wrote:
> >> > Me too.  The one Chandan drew was gorgeous, sunglasses and all.
> >>
> >> http://blogs.sun.com/chandan/date/20050617
> >
> > I like the Bush Baby Chandan drew.
> >
> > But, at this time, I think a "Ninja Elephant" would be an awesome
> > mascot. The idea is to capture "Nimble Elephant", being in that an
> > Elephant represents strength/power, maturity, wisdom, determination,
> > and timelessness. The Nimble/Ninja being to show agility, flexibility,
> > adaptability and speed. (Ninja was what I could come up with on my
> > first pass.)
> >
> > -Brian
>
> Brian,
>
>   An elephant?  Boy, I dunno.
>
>   Aren't those guys generally acknowledged to have the largest footprint
> in the animal kingdom? Not a real good feature for an OpenSolaris avatar.
>
>   Then too, there's the danger that we might be ticking off all the
> Democrats

That's why it's a *ninja* elephant. Bad drawing attached: (see:
elephantninja.jpg)

>
>
>   This is tougher than I thought it'd be.  Does it make sense to select
> maybe 6 candidates and have a vote?  Perhaps we could drum up some wider
> interest with a webcast ... something like those gawd-awful presidential
> debates ("raise you hand if you are an omnivore"?)

One thing about Open Solaris is that Solaris is that it contains
Solar, as in related to the Sun. Why not a Solar based mascot.
Attached I present "Flare" our rocking Solaris mascot. (see:
flare.jpg)

brian
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