From: Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com>
To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal: That the Hippo becomes the official mascot of Cygwin
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49959F46.1020807@etr-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xns9BB1965AE6CECzzappergmailcom@80.91.229.13>
zzapper wrote:
> I guess I'm not the first to suggest this, but Perl has got the Camel, GNU's
> got the .. drat I can't remember. Might help popularise/publicise Cygwin
I think we're just waiting on someone to come up with a graphic that
either wins widespread acceptance, or favor from the Co-Maintainers.
It's a difficult challenge. The reason for picking hippos is that
they're mean, because WJM here. How do you have a mean-looking hippo
that's also attractive? OpenSSH seems to strike a similar balance with
their puffer fish mascot, but then, the connection between security and
puffer fishes is obvious.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-13 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-13 14:47 zzapper
2009-02-13 16:27 ` Warren Young [this message]
2009-02-13 20:51 ` Dave Korn
2009-02-14 4:01 ` Christopher Faylor
2009-02-14 5:13 ` Dave Korn
2009-02-13 20:53 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2009-02-13 21:08 ` Dave Korn
2009-02-17 14:59 ` zzapper
2009-02-19 18:28 ` Dave Woodfall
2009-02-28 4:41 ` Joe Smith
2009-02-28 9:20 ` Dave Korn
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