I am not a LO developer but we use it company-wide. I'd strongly advise against a horse as a mascot.
Horses are not considered terribly smart, nor are they cute. You want to convey that LO is the smart choice, and that it works hard for you. A horse does not convey that message. If you look at the cuteness factor, then use a baby big cat. Or a puppy of one of the big dogs. Best regards, Axel Kloth On 4/3/2017 10:08, Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco wrote: > Hi all! > > I don't know if it could be a real issue for a horse as a mascot, but the > EuroOffice (based on OpenOffice/LibreOffice) already uses a horse in its > logo: > http://www.multiracio.com/index.php?lang=en&style=eurooffice&page=eo > > Best! > Gustavo. > > > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Tim-L--Elmira-NY < > webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote: > >> >> I liked the Duke Java mascot. The other two seemed too cartoon-ish for me. >> >> I have seen many horse mascots - not for any computer field item - and >> those looked nice. I fear that if the mascot is too cartoon-ish, then it >> might give some people the idea of LO being non-professional. Tux, Duke, >> Firefox, Thunderbird, and some other mascots do not look too much like a >> catroon as some others do. >> >> Google "horse mascots logos" in their image section. There are a lot of >> them, including some nice ones. Maybe we could use some African animal like >> a gazelle or similar looking animal. >> >> >> On 03/31/2017 10:22 AM, Edwin Lee wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> How about a mascot based on a horse, signifying freedom for OSS and ODF, >>> speed for a rapid release cycle, many breeds for the different versions >>> available on a variety of platforms. >>> >>> Best, >>> Edwin >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Heiko Tietze [mailto:tietze.he...@googlemail.com] >>> Sent: Friday, 31 March 2017 3:51 PM >>> To: LibO Marketing <marketing@global.libreoffice.org>; LibO Design < >>> des...@global.libreoffice.org>; LibO Project < >>> proje...@global.libreoffice.org> >>> Cc: TDF BoD <b...@documentfoundation.org> >>> Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Mascot >>> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> additional to the unique branding of LibreOffice today, we want to >>> introduce an alternative to TDF's trademarked logo/icon elements that can >>> be used by the community with minimal restrictions: a mascot. >>> >>> The idea is similar to "Duke" from Java (https://kenai.com/projects/du >>> ke/pages/Home), SuSE's chameleon "Geeko", Mozilla has a >>> lizard/godzilla/tyrannosaurus, Linux' "Tux" is famous, KDE is going with >>> the dragon "Konqi" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqi) and Krita has >>> "Kiki" (https://krita.org/en/kiki/). >>> >>> The first step would be to find some metaphors that enables designs to be >>> creative. Something like Freedom, Documents, Openness etc. Ideas for the >>> realization are of course also welcome. The mascot could be an animal like >>> a (grumpy old) cat to refer to the seven lives of LibreOffice or something >>> more symbolic. >>> >>> Based on your input we would later start the actual design task, and >>> ideally have a few options where the community can choose the best. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Heiko >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >> Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-uns >> ubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> > -- _________________________________________________________________________ Axel K. Kloth Founder, Chairman of the Board and CTO Scalable Systems Research Labs Inc. 544 Monterey Road Pacifica, CA 94044 axel.kl...@ssrlabs.com Office: (650) 322-6507 Cell: (650) 283-3554 Skype: axelkloth Web: http://www.ssrlabs.com _________________________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
