[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris contest in Brazil

[Jim Grisanzio]

Vitório Sassi wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm Vitório Sassi from Porto Alegre - Brazil. A few weeks ago I became 
> one of the leaders of br.opensolaris.org. Talking with some ambassadors 
> I give the idea to create a mascot to our portal, like we just have in 
> Porto Alegre. The goal is to create a mascot that show the Brazil's 
> image, but my country are too big and we have a lot of this mascot, like 
> the "cristo redentor" in Rio de Janeiro. So someone told to done a kind 
> of contest, to choose the new mascot. Put in the web-sites an 
> mailing-lists the idea, define a deadline and define the jury.  Until 
> now we just have some OpenSolaris t-shirts and caps. Maybe we have in 
> August a vouncher, I dont' know it's just plans.
> So we have the idea to talk with you. And ask you if have some tip for 
> this contest.

hey ... I know pretty much nothing about what's involved in the creation 
of mascots -- such as trademark law, branding issues, etc. Maybe someone 
from marketing can help you on that part because I know it can get 
complex. However, I just found out recently that the Japan NetBeans 
community created "Neko-bean" http://ja.netbeans.org/nekobean/. It sort 
of looks like a cat (neko in Japanese) in the shape of the NetBeans 
grid/box. It's an image, as you can see, but it's also a little toy that 
people hang from their cell phones here. Everyone seems to like it so I 
guess it's good to have around. :)

Jim
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