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

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

  3. 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

  4. 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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  5. 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.

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

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

  7. 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

  8. 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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  9. 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.