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New FreeBSD Logo Contest to Close on June 30

Posted by timothy on from the free-chuckie dept.

xbsd writes "The Official FreeBSD Logo Contest is closing on June 30, 2005. As of June 23 they have received 429 compliant submissions, but if you got the skills you still have a few hours left to submit a proposal. Now, is it time for F/OSS projects to follow NetBSD and get a more polished (or as some would say, 'corporate') public image?"

2 of 42 comments (clear)

  1. Beastie isn't going anywhere. by ulib · · Score: 4, Informative
    From the Fine Article:
    Q. Please save Beastie!

    A. Beastie will continue to represent the FreeBSD Project as our mascot. We won't kill Beastie. The closest logo-like thing that we have now is shown below, and we are looking for other options to be used like there. The new logo design may or may not include Beastie, or even a stylized representation. Again, Beastie is still alive!
    There are times when you want to present yourself with a logo, not with an image of the mascot. That's how I understood it, and to me it makes a lot of sense.

    --
    Requiem for the FUD
  2. Re:Long live Beastie by nbritton · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here are a few reasons why we need a logo...

    1. Beastie is generic, it's associated with all of the BSDs and not specific to FreeBSD.
    2. We don't have a logo. Beastie is not, and never was, the logo for FreeBSD.
    3. Copyright and Trademark issues, Marshall McKusick holds all rights to him.
    4. Beastie is too complex, economically, for print media.

    Let me say again... Beastie is NOT being booted from FreeBSD and no, we did not cave into the demands of right-wing religious people. This is all about branding, marketing, and PR. And you could use the mozilla project as a case study of some of the positive side effects this could have for us.