To put my two cents in.

The dragonfly is already used by DragonFly BSD and Opera Dragonfly.

On 26/04/17 10:57, Heiko Tietze wrote:
> Since today is world penguin day [1] some journals reported about Tux,
> which is a good reminder to keep our discussion boiling with the
> reference how Linux found its mascot [2]. To summarize the discussion
> I created a pad [3]. Anything to add?
> 
> [1] 
> https://www.awarenessdays.co.uk/awareness-days-calendar/world-penguin-day-2017/
> [2] http://www.gregroelofs.com/greg_lnxpeng.html
> [3] https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/UX-mascot
> 
> 2017-03-31 9:51 GMT+02:00 Heiko Tietze <tietze.he...@googlemail.com>:
>> 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/duke/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
>> --
>> Dr. Heiko Tietze
>> UX Designer
>> Tel. +49 (0)179/1268509
>>
>>
>>
> 

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