Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote:
> Ron Kleinman wrote:
>
>> Brian Gupta wrote:
>>
>>> On 6/25/07, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Simon Phipps wrote:
>>>> > Me too. The one Chandan drew was gorgeous, sunglasses and all.
>>>>
>>>> http://blogs.sun.com/chandan/date/20050617
>>>
>>>
>>> I like the Bush Baby Chandan drew.
>>>
>>> But, at this time, I think a "Ninja Elephant" would be an awesome
>>> mascot. The idea is to capture "Nimble Elephant", being in that an
>>> Elephant represents strength/power, maturity, wisdom, determination,
>>> and timelessness. The Nimble/Ninja being to show agility, flexibility,
>>> adaptability and speed. (Ninja was what I could come up with on my
>>> first pass.)
>>>
>>> -Brian
>>
>>
>> Brian,
>>
>> An elephant? Boy, I dunno.
>> Aren't those guys generally acknowledged to have the largest
>> footprint in the animal kingdom? Not a real good feature for an
>> OpenSolaris avatar.
>>
>> Then too, there's the danger that we might be ticking off all the
>> Democrats
>>
>>
>> This is tougher than I thought it'd be. Does it make sense to
>> select maybe 6 candidates and have a vote? Perhaps we could drum up
>> some wider interest with a webcast ... something like those
>> gawd-awful presidential debates ("raise you hand if you are an
>> omnivore"?)
>
>
> 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 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.
A recent National Geographic had a special on leopard seals.... which
are the only members of the seal family to hunt warm blooded animals
(specifically penguins.) I thought it might be apropos. :-)
-- Garrett
