[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Logo Concept: Tamarah Rockwood

[James Dickens]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Ben Rockwood <benr at cuddletech.com> wrote:

> My beloved wife, Tamarah Rockwood, worked up an OpenSolaris logo concept
> in January of this year.  It was originally conceived as a physical 3D
> sculpture as part of Tamarah's entry into the OpenSolaris Awards
> Program, but she's pushed out a 2D rendering due to recent discussion
> about a new logo.  Please note that the sketch is not the final logo but
> rather a conceptual sketch.
>
> The logo can be found here:
> http://cuddletech.com/OpenSolaris-Mobius-Tamr-1024.jpg
>
> Tamarah's description follows:
>

+1

Ben watchout she will be taking your on board ;-)



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> The reason why I chose the mobius strip to be the masthead of
> OpenSolaris, is because of the dual nature OpenSolaris embodies.  It is
> an open source community, within a corporate environment.  This is the
> exact nature of the mobius strip, in that it logically has one
> continuous side, yet also appearing to have two.
>
> The paradox of the mobius strip symbolizes the duality of Corporate Sun
> and Community, Capitalism and Individual, Autonomy and Unity.  As the
> open source revolution has flourished in the industrial world in the
> past decade, it has flushed out the fertile space for new boundaries and
> new ideas; and because this system has never been implemented before in
> a technological arena, it can be surmised, therefore, that any idea has
> a possibility.  For generations, there have been countless and nameless
> individuals looking in, beyond the electric gates and double paned
> windows, commenting on their own ideas for projects.  The French
> philosopher, Jean-Francois Lyotard, once examined modern mankind as,
> "that of the philosopher and that of the expert. Where the expert knows
> what he knows and what he doesn't know, the philosopher knows neither,
> but poses questions."  And I see Sun Microsystem embracing both
> hemispheres of this new culture by allowing the philosophers in the
> community to introduce new questions to the experts in the corporation,
> thus bridging the fords that have separated us for all these generations.
>
> The evolution and continuous development of OpenSolaris, through code
> building and bridge building, will force out the preconceived ideas of
> how a business is supposed to function.  When Scott McNealy so boldly
> sat in the lobby of a New England business for 14 hours so many years
> ago, in order to force a new way of business onto the modern world, so
> is the community of OpenSolaris forcing the advancement of intellectual
> unity beyond the electric gates of corporate America.
>
> Tamarah Rockwood
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