I heard of EuroOffice for years - no comment on their fork. I am not
sure I like their horse mascot. I am not too fond of the stylized bird
used by OpenOffice.org for years.
Mascot being a moving animal, well there are a lot of different birds
that would work. Using a "raptor" or bird of prey. If we could find a
bird that could be seen as a stealthy bird and one not afraid to "hunt
in the territory of a bigger bird of prey" - that might work for us.
The open source community are like the smaller "bird hunting" to find
their market nitch that the "big birds" really do not want to give up.
For me, I keep thinking that LO is slowly working to take on various
platforms. So far, LO has taken over Linux's platforms from
OpenOffice.org - from day one. Then Windows and Mac platforms came
quickly. Although LO has not made really much headway against MS
Office, to me it seems LO is slowly gaining a market share a little at a
time. LO is working on an Android version and later I do not doubt
Apple's IOS will see a version.
A mascot needs to reflect what we are now as well as what we want to be
seen as in the future.
On 04/03/2017 01:20 PM, Anxhelo Lushka wrote:
Had never heard about EuroOffice before, hmm
I think that our mascot should mostly represent moving animals, most
aerial ones, since IMO they transmit the sense of freedom, speed and
improvement.
On 04/03/2017 07:08 PM, Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco wrote:
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
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From: Heiko Tietze [mailto:[email protected]]
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To: LibO Marketing <[email protected]>; LibO Design <
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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
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