From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26219 invoked by alias); 13 Feb 2009 16:27:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 26210 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Feb 2009 16:27:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:26:57 +0000 Received: (qmail 96157 invoked by uid 13447); 13 Feb 2009 16:26:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [172.20.0.42]) ([71.213.133.216]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 13 Feb 2009 16:26:55 -0000 Message-ID: <49959F46.1020807@etr-usa.com> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:27:00 -0000 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Subject: Re: Proposal: That the Hippo becomes the official mascot of Cygwin References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List X-SW-Source: 2009-q1/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 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.