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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?"

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  1. Some Suggestions by fuzzybunny · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here are a few to please corporate marketing, sales and management types (yes, they're work safe):

    http://prague.tv/galleries/funny-pics7/freebsd.jpg -- Remember, sometimes less is more.

    http://www.nrg4u.com/freebsd/baby-doll-1-small.jpg (yeah yeah, I know, but they could learn a thing or two from them)

    http://intdata.homeip.net/img/freeBSD-girl.jpg (mmh, amazing how many critical pieces of infrastructure are held together by duct tape)

    Redundant components: http://tinyurl.com/a2uhp

    One for the marketing department: http://www.servepath.com/images/better_devil_250x2 80.jpg

    One to compensate for corporate randomness: http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/483990930X.09 .LZZZZZZZ.jpg (what is it about Japanese graphics that just screams "weird!"?)

    And finally of course, http://homepage.tinet.ie/~cullenm/2dart/regi.jpg (just to piss off the zealots)

    Ok, of course I'm single-minded, but seriously, folks, stick to working on the (fantastic) OS, let the sysadmins smuggle it into the enterprise like they've been doing for years :)

    --
    Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
  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.