> It's inline with what I expected which is why in the original > email I cc'd the OGB because unless they have delegated > control over this to the advocacy forum, advocacy-discuss > has no authority to make any decisions. Point here being > that there is no "advocacy community", heck there isn't > even an "opensolaris" community for "opensolaris-discuss" > to belong to, for there to be any leaders within so we have > to fall back to the OGB.
There is advocacy community. It is a combination of the User Groups, Marketing and Immigrants Communities. The OGB, via Steve Lau, have already spoken up and stated that this isn't a decision for the OGB - which I wholeheartedly agree with. > > There have been lots of ideas and rationales about what is > good or bad, and when someone said "shark" (specifically > those that eat pengiuns), my thoughts turned to "killer whale", > also known as the "orca" - but I digress. > > What's needed next isn't more +1's or text but graphics. > > What we need are some people to get together with some > ideas for a mascot/logo and create graphics. This requires > talent of a different kind than with what is usually associated > with open source projects. In the interest of achieving > good results here, it may be required to offer some sort of > consideration in return for the work performed - that again > is outside the bounds of what this mailing list can do and > must go back to the OGB. > > Additionally, to ensure the effort is bounded, we need to > set out an end date, such as the 31st of August, 2007 (or > even longer.) Of course if you know someone who has the > required talent and can churn this out in a week or two, > great, but I think that's a bit too unrealistic, same as > expecting to find the solution in email. > > As a proof of concept for a mascot, I'm guessing it would > be useful to have the symbol/character/whatever portrayed > in two different scenarios/themes. > > Darren > > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss
