OUTLINE OF PROPOSAL Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Mascot

[carl.trusiak at robustaos.com]

I like your ideas for this.  However, wouldn't it be better to have the
committee establish the contest rules and dead lines, but, allow the final
selection to be a Community vote rather than a Judged event.  I personnal
feel this will aid in community acceptance.

The voting rules could be as simple as Voting starts Nov 1st, and ends Nov
15th.
To cast your vote, you must have a valid OpenSolaris.org login.
Each login can cast one vote.


Carl

> On 7/15/05, Claire Giordano <claire.giordano at sun.com> wrote:
>> Hey everyone:
>>
>> Several of you have suggested that we put together an OpenSolaris mascot
>> contest, which I think it is a great idea.
>
> Somehow a contest doesn't feel like a "discussion".  It feels like the
> opinion of three people will determine something long long term.
> Without discussion.  I think that the contest is a good way to get
> started.  Perhaps the result would be two options at the end.
>
> Then these two are posted to the world and then the community can take
> a democratic vote.
>
> That feels like a "choice" and a "discussion".
>
> One big problem with the democratic process is that a lot of time can
> go by with lots of discussion but no real action taken.  If stagnation
> like that takes place then perhaps the CAB can stand up and say
> something decisive.  Democracy in the absence of real leadership often
> fails horribly as people will not be motivated or attracted to a
> particular decision.  This is why authority often stems from power and
> control as opposed to free "choice" and long never ending discussions.
>  [ Often because of posts by guys like me with free form core dumps
> from my brain. ]
>
> So someone had to stand up and do something.
>
> Thank you Claire.  This project needs a mascot.
>
> Now how to pick it is yet another battle.
>
> Because this is a community with a really big corporation bolted onto
> the side of it there is a fine line to walk with that whole authority
> via power or legal drama issue ( i.e: IP rights anyone?). Somehow it
> feels "wrong" in a fuzzy way to have three strangers dictate what the
> mascot will be for such a critical long term project.
>
> But something has to be done.  We need a mascot.  We have some options
> but no process.
>
> And no clear leadership on the matter.
>
> So unless someone has a stroke of genius and lightning strikes then
> you have hit a viable mechanism to achieve action.  Pick a mascot via
> the ol' contest game.  Roll out that old chestnut.  With the option
> for some revolt from people.
>
> So consider my name as a volunteer judge.  I promise not to simply go
> with my friend Rich Teer and his dog named judge. :-)
>
> If anyone thinks I have no artistic merit then they can let me know.
>
> Sorry for the long winding posts but sometime I feel like a fuzzy
> thing like this needs to have a brain dump with feelings in it.  This
> is not a one plus one equals two kind of geek thing with obvious
> answers or a deterministic process.  Its a "oh wow this is nice" and
> "I like that" and no no no you can't hang that picture on my wall and
> often times a "that's just wrong". :-)
>
> So I fully expect a real process when it comes to picking a mascot.
>
> Dennis
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