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OO.org Selects Its Own Sea Bird
Elektroschock writes "A new mascot of the OO.org project was announced today: A crazy sea gull. I wonder whether it will help to convince office workers of Open Office. "Andrea [Maggioni]'s contribution is not only beautiful and effective but also illustrates the potential of young people to contribute importantly to real projects under the banner of Free and Open Source Software." Andrea, "whose cheerful drawing, of a fun-looking seagull holding a fish, plays on the "OOo" shorthand of OpenOffice.org"... ehemm, it's a crazy sea gull."
You can tell I am pissed cause my submission got rejected on the spot. Granted, it had a few hidden messages, but it was on such a high-level, only 2-3 people in the world would've got it.
Gully says:
"It looks like you're trying to run Microsoft Office via WINE. Would you like me to poop on it for you?"
That fish looks just a little too happy to be held by a seagull. Doesn't it know that the seagull is going to eat him?
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
>> I think there's only one 't' in mascot.
Not if the mascott is a seagul.
Well.. good thing it's not an african swallow...
Quite frankly, the gull looks slightly... challenged. Not a good image for either open office or for a subprject aimed at schools :)
-naeem
Indeed. It reminds me of one of those damn science fairs where the kid who wins first place has a project that has obviously benefitted from a lot of assistance from one of his parents. Did the OOo people do a bit of dressing up on this logo? I mean, at the very least it's obvious that the coloring was done with a computer.
I agree with this guy. I mean the penguin's one thing, but what is this? The people they're trying to attract over are the suits, not the geeks with a sense of humor. I like the logo and I think it's funny, but I think it's going to make it harder for the guy in IT who's trying to convince his bosses to switch to OO when the brochure he gives them has a crazy bird on it.
Then again, that damn butterfly is starting to piss me off.
Why does the fish look so damn happy?
Seriously.
That gull looks like it's itching to ask you:
"So.... do you wanna get high?"
Uhhh.. she's 15. I guess we know why her sister's boyfriend talked her into contributing.
How we know is more important than what we know.
This is pretty much the same reason that Microsoft did away with their upraised middle finger logo.
OOo, I see!
http://maddox.xmission.org/c.cgi?u=irule
A lesbian seagul?
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Thanks to Google, I was able to dig up one more photo of the OO.org mascot.
image1,
I hate to be critical, it's a great drawing, but why is the fish smiling?
his ass is about to get eaten!
`which fortune`
This just in... Pixar sues OO.org for tracing a screenshot from "Finding Nemo".
...then the new company motto:
Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!
ignore the sig
Given all the European snickering about Americans complaining when Janet Jackson showed a tit on TV, I would think they wouldn't care about hand gestures. :-)
Yes, let's go with Phoenix's attempt at brand identity. I mean Firebird. Whoops, I mean Firefox.
Does this crazy seagul also have morphing wings? Otherwise I don't want it.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgghh!!!!
Yes but what's with the fish? Why is the seagul holding a fish and why is the fish smiling?
Is the fish happy that he is about to become dinner? Does the fish symbolize something?
Cute bird, the fish has to go.
evil is as evil does
As somebody with eyes in my head, perhaps I can add some comments on why this winning entry does not communicate well - it's crap.
With a logo of a bird known primarily for crapping on everything in sight, I'm tempted to go with Microsoft just to spite the few people in the world who don't hate the things.
"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is living in a state of sin." -- John von Neumann
open source mascots MUST EAT FISH. Seriously. Besides the obvious Tux, demons, gimps and gnomes certainly eat fish. Blowfish eat other fish. (I didn't look that up. I'm just assuming, for the sake of my argument, that they do.) A few members of Monty Python were in a movie where Kevin Kline ate live goldfish. Platypuses (the Darwin project) eat fish.
There is nothing even remotely fish-related about the wildebeest. What does this mean for the GNU project?
* And remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced "Mozilla."
Please accept this ascii art as a token of my appreciation to OO.org.
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Speaking of The GIMP, and logos... I wonder how your prudish friends would like this sucker.
I say that seagull needs a big reefer too.
Didn't you know that there's a certain substance in meat that stimulates the production of a neurotransmitter known as "Sanitonin". Without sanitonin, you generally start to lose your mind. This is particularly a problem in eastern nations that don't eat a lot of meat and are therefore particularly open to exploit by crazy political systems.
I've heard that asparagus actually contains a neurotoxin that completely defeats the effect of sanitonin. It's called insanitonin.
I don't eat asparagus.
Like what I said? You might like my music
In Brazil the mascot will look like a perverted psychopath with a thing for fish.
Looks like it'll fit in in Brazil. ;)
Like what I said? You might like my music
You want puns?
I'd say they just took a tern for the worst.
(Spudley Strikes Again!)
Speaking of which, the fish that seagull is holding looks a bit too happy for the situation he's in...
Or a coconut...
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This isn't the sig you're looking for. Move along.
Got that right. Hell, you usually don't read about them in the same sentance, even.
hang brain.