I agree that we should have a better mascot, but I am at a loss (for once) to suggest anything!
A falcon? Flying high and free? Problems ... Karen On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:03 PM, James Stallings II < [email protected]> wrote: > If it were up to me, we'd find something more appealing than a hippo for > the mascot. The inheritance of anything from Second Life to me is pretty > distasteful. > > Not likely to be a popular opinion so I don't expect much to come of it, > but my 0.02$US anyway. > > (I mean seriously, a fat, sluggish river-dwelling herbivore that is so > close to the next level down on the food chain that the carp literally > follow it around to eat as it defecates -- why was that ever a mascot for > anything in the first place?) > > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, same here. >> But since we are talking about the famous Hippos that everybody knows and >> uses, I took this opportunity to try to find out if anyone here knows >> anything about their origin. Are these nebadon's? >> >> >> Marck wrote: >> >>> Well, I found not any license information for the Baby and Mother Hippo >>> that I used as a base. In fact, I got them from your mega-region "Diva's >>> Office"; but I have seen them with full permissions and free to copy at >>> various places in OSgrid, too. I assumed that they are free to use. As long >>> as there are no restrictions on those hippos, the hippo avatar as a >>> derivative work is in the public domain. >>> >>> [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> Super cute! >>>> Is this really public domain? >>>> >>>> Ben Faust wrote: >>>> >>>>> Great job! I'm going to use it for our Neutral avatar. Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> On 8/26/2010 11:12 AM, Marck wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello Ai, >>>>>> >>>>>> Your idea of using a hippo as a starter avatar is great. I took the >>>>>> freely available Baby Hippo and made an avatar from it. See >>>>>> http://www.osgrid.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2705. >>>>>> >>>>>> Does this meet your notion for such an avatar? >>>>>> >>>>>> Marck >>>>>> >>>>>> Ai Austin wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Anyone feel up to creating a starter avatar that looks like a hippo >>>>>>> that >>>>>>> can be distributed as an IAR? It would be a great addition to allow a >>>>>>> male, female and "neutral" avatar as starters and follow the >>>>>>> OpenSimulator logo style with its 3 "users" on it. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OpenSim_Graphics >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> Opensim-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users >> > > > > -- > =================================== > http://osgrid.org > http://twitter.com/jstallings2 > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/770/a49 > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > >
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