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

[Michael Hasselmann <michael taschenorakel de>]

On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 17:50 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> 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

Meegons: <https://www.google.de/search?q=meegons&tbm=isch>. Some still
have them as avatars and there were tools to create them.