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OO.org Selects Its Own Sea Bird

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the penguin-was-taken dept.

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."

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  1. Around here, seagulls are called "shithawks". by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gully says:

    "It looks like you're trying to run Microsoft Office via WINE. Would you like me to poop on it for you?"

  2. Something wrong with the picture by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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    1. Re:Something wrong with the picture by incom · · Score: 5, Funny

      True. Does the fish really recongnize it's own mortality, does a fish try to squirm away out of discomfort, instinct, or actual fear of death. Thanks for bringing up the quality of metaphysical discussion here at slashdot, although valid sometimes the paradoxi of soviet russia get a little worn out.

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    2. Re:Something wrong with the picture by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
      That fish looks just a little too happy to be held by a seagull.

      I don't know. The first thing that I thought was that that seagull looks totally stoned. It's got bloodshot eyes, messed up hair, a zoned out expression, and its fingers look just like they're holding a joint. It's pretty easy to mentally add an enormous smoldering doobie to the image.

      The fish has a huge smile on his face and is staring directly at the seagull's virtual joint. He may be anticipating that the seagull is going to be kind enough to give him a puff or two.

      Hopefully the seagull doesn't have the munchies.

  3. Re:Pun on by BarakMich · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well.. good thing it's not an african swallow...

  4. Not a good mascot for a project aimed at schools by syslog · · Score: 5, Funny
    I really hope that they limit this mascot to the EDU subproject.

    Quite frankly, the gull looks slightly... challenged. Not a good image for either open office or for a subprject aimed at schools :)

    -naeem

  5. What the hell is she going to do with that? by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Funny
    Andrea receives a great prize of a web-hosting service for one year, 200 Mb of web space on a Linux server, with 50 IMAP/POP3 mailboxes (protected from virus and spam), unlimited aliases, one IP address, PHP/MySQL/PostGreSQL support, and the registration of an .it .com .net or .org domain name.

    Uhhh.. she's 15. I guess we know why her sister's boyfriend talked her into contributing.

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  6. good point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is pretty much the same reason that Microsoft did away with their upraised middle finger logo.

  7. Re:Only for OOoEdu by shiftless · · Score: 4, Funny

    OOo, I see!

  8. Re:See the Other Submissions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://maddox.xmission.org/c.cgi?u=irule

  9. Additional Photos by telstar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks to Google, I was able to dig up one more photo of the OO.org mascot.

    image1,

  10. Re:Oh great by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: 4, Funny
    But for a girl who's prolly still in high school or maybe even elementary school?
    Why do you think we included PHP?
  11. First the seagull mascot... by PrintError · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...then the new company motto:
    Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!

    ignore the sig

  12. Oh, lord no! by brandonY · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, let's go with Phoenix's attempt at brand identity. I mean Firebird. Whoops, I mean Firefox.

  13. I don't know... by jellybear · · Score: 4, Funny

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgghh!!!!

  14. Re:In my well paid opinion by starling · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  15. It's official by KnightStalker · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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  16. Re:As if they care? by rsidd · · Score: 4, Funny
    At the same time they scold us for freaking over a nipple (hey, I'll agree to that extent), they would scold us for a stoned gull making an "obscene" gesture?

    Janet J wasn't using her tit to promote a free software office suite for educational use.

  17. Slashdotted... by Rick+and+Roll · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please accept this ascii art as a token of my appreciation to OO.org.

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  18. Re:The "OK" gesture is obscene in some countries by fucksl4shd0t · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Brazil the mascot will look like a perverted psychopath with a thing for fish.

    Looks like it'll fit in in Brazil. ;)

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  19. Re:Pun on by Spudley · · Score: 4, Funny

    You want puns?

    I'd say they just took a tern for the worst.

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