Hi all! I don't know if it could be a real issue for a horse as a mascot, but the EuroOffice (based on OpenOffice/LibreOffice) already uses a horse in its logo: http://www.multiracio.com/index.php?lang=en&style=eurooffice&page=eo
Best! Gustavo. On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Tim-L--Elmira-NY < [email protected]> wrote: > > I liked the Duke Java mascot. The other two seemed too cartoon-ish for me. > > I have seen many horse mascots - not for any computer field item - and > those looked nice. I fear that if the mascot is too cartoon-ish, then it > might give some people the idea of LO being non-professional. Tux, Duke, > Firefox, Thunderbird, and some other mascots do not look too much like a > catroon as some others do. > > Google "horse mascots logos" in their image section. There are a lot of > them, including some nice ones. Maybe we could use some African animal like > a gazelle or similar looking animal. > > > On 03/31/2017 10:22 AM, Edwin Lee wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> How about a mascot based on a horse, signifying freedom for OSS and ODF, >> speed for a rapid release cycle, many breeds for the different versions >> available on a variety of platforms. >> >> Best, >> Edwin >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Heiko Tietze [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, 31 March 2017 3:51 PM >> To: LibO Marketing <[email protected]>; LibO Design < >> [email protected]>; LibO Project < >> [email protected]> >> Cc: TDF BoD <[email protected]> >> Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Mascot >> >> Hello all, >> >> additional to the unique branding of LibreOffice today, we want to >> introduce an alternative to TDF's trademarked logo/icon elements that can >> be used by the community with minimal restrictions: a mascot. >> >> The idea is similar to "Duke" from Java (https://kenai.com/projects/du >> ke/pages/Home), SuSE's chameleon "Geeko", Mozilla has a >> lizard/godzilla/tyrannosaurus, Linux' "Tux" is famous, KDE is going with >> the dragon "Konqi" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqi) and Krita has >> "Kiki" (https://krita.org/en/kiki/). >> >> The first step would be to find some metaphors that enables designs to be >> creative. Something like Freedom, Documents, Openness etc. Ideas for the >> realization are of course also welcome. The mascot could be an animal like >> a (grumpy old) cat to refer to the seven lives of LibreOffice or something >> more symbolic. >> >> Based on your input we would later start the actual design task, and >> ideally have a few options where the community can choose the best. >> >> Cheers, >> Heiko >> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-uns > ubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
