Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:07:20 +0200, Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> said:
> On su, 2008-02-24 at 19:48 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
>> also sprach Sam Hocevar <leader@debian.org> [2008.02.24.1316 +0100]:
>> > I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest,
>> > similar to
>> > the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the
>> > Debian project (in a similar way to the Linux penguin or the GNU
>> > gnu) that we can use where the logo is not enough. More on this in
>> > a few days.
>>
>> In the free software zoo, the Debian Swirl sticks out like no other
>> logo. Do we have to get a mascot?
> We had a chicken[1]. We spent years actively getting rid of it.
I loved the chicken. I had a character.
> [1] Technically speaking it was a penguin. But it was a youthful
> penguin, rebelling against its genetic heritage.
Youthful, but with taste. I thought it gave us a better logo than
the somewhat blah swirl. But I lost that vote ....
manoj
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If only you knew she loved you, you could face the uncertainty of
whether you love her.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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