Re: Are we too serious these days? Let's go electing an official mascot.

[Yen-Ju Chen]

My only concern is that when mascot is in a small icon,
people may not be able to tell the exact species.
Therefore, a mascot should have a distinguish shape.
Otherwise, tiger may look like lion,
komodo dragon may look like gecko. :)

Yen-Ju

> From: "M. Grabert" <xam@cs.ucc.ie>
> To: Yen-Ju Chen <yjchenx@hotmail.com>
> CC: gnustep <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Are we too serious these days? Let's go electing an official 
> mascot.
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:52:37 +0000 (GMT)
>
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
>
> > How about chameleon or leaf-tail gecko ?
>
> What about a komodo dragon? (http://www.no-pest.com/KomodoDragon.htm)
>
> I've been to Komodo, Rinca and Flores, and they are really impressive
> (as OpenStep/GNUstep is, just in a slightly other way).
>
> Some things GNUstep and a komodo has in common:
>
> - NOT slow
> - endangered
> - opportunistic (perdator)
> - independend (parents don't care about the offspring)
> - flexible (komodos can climb trees and are good swimmers)
> - deadly effective ;)
>
>
> (BTW, before you enter Komodo you have to sign a letter that states you
>  are sole responsible for your actions. You also have to specify
>  the persons they are going to contact in the case you've been bitten,
>  since the komodo mouth contains toxic bacteria that fester on wounds and
>  so the bite is often lethal within a few days if untreated.)
>
> > They are slow (progress of GNUstep) and live in various environment
> > from dessert to rain forest (portability).
> > Althgouth they are opposite to big cat (MacOS X),
> > most of them are predator, too.
> >
> > Yen-Ju
> >
> > >From: Banlu Kemiyatorn <id@project-ile.net>
> > >To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> > >Subject: Are we too serious these days? Let's go electing an official
> > >mascot.
> > >Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:36:37 +0700
> > >
> > >my choices,
> > >1 A black & white clown fish (I am not a fisherman, all fish looks like
> > >Nemo to me but he isn't b/w, may be you can suggest another fish?)
> > >2 A panda (You have a problem if you don't know what a panda is,
> > >wmaker/woom also uses it)
> > >3 A tapir (http://images.google.com/images?q=Tapir)
> > >4 A zebra (as african as a gnu)
> > >5 A dalmatian (trust me I am not a disney freak)
> > >
> > >
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