Re: Proposing to change logo to a happy smiling garden gnome

[Calum Benson <calum benson oracle com>]

On 10 Dec 2013, at 10:31, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:

> I definitely like the idea of injecting some fun into the brand, and I
> agree that allowing user groups to play with and remix the brand to
> make it their own (and to localise it) would be really nice indeed. To
> me, fun and informality are an important part of what GNOME is, and I
> think we should be communicating it more strongly.

As you might recall, this is pretty much what Sun did with Java, and it worked pretty well — there was the 
official Java 'coffee cup' logo that you couldn't use without Sun's permission, and the Duke mascot that was 
released under a BSD licence for user groups and developers to do with pretty much as they pleased:

https://kenai.com/projects/duke/pages/Home

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