About the mascot

[Michael Beckwith]

I think what we need to do first is determine an animal or whatnot that
symbolizes what Fedora is about. For instance, we always see owls as wise,
and elephants as forgetful, etc.

On 8/21/07, Christopher David Desjardins <cddesjardins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think the human mascots are too anime looking.  I think a goat
> (perhaps a mountain goat standing on the top of a mountain of free/open
> software? but please nothing resembling the GNU logo) or the platypus
> sound like great ideas to me.  The platypus is an extremely fascinating
> animal.  Another suggestion might be an otter?
> Chris
>
> On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 15:12 -0500, Michael Beckwith wrote:
> > I don't think that's a good idea at all, no offence, because Microsoft
> > uses a butterfly a lot, and that's not what we want to associate
> > Fedora with. I'm still torn on the need for a mascot or not, so I
> > don't really have any suggestions in replacement of this. However on
> > the mascot wiki, I did kind of like the humans towards the bottom.
> >
> > On 8/21/07, Karel Boissinot <karel.boissinot at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         Anybody thought of using a butterfly for the mascott?  I
> >         really suck at drawing things so I can't say I have made a
> >         sketch, but I got inspired looking at this picture:
> >
> >         http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/images/3d_bubble_07.svg
> >
> >         The reflected logo kinda makes it look like the bottom wings
> >         of a butterfly.
> >
> >         Anyway, just food for thought
> >
> >         Karel
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