Re: [guadec-list] Keynote thoughts

[Diego Escalante Urrelo <diegoe gnome org>]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org> wrote:
> As a side note, I can not recall if that what the time when he tried to
> convince people to adopt a new logo or a mascot.  His rationale was the
> foot is not good for marketing: nobody can hug a foot, you can not name
> it, a foot is not neutral everywhere (he said a foot can be extremely
> insulting in Thailand), etc.
>

We once got a mail about that in marketing, IIRC. Someone suggested to
alternate GNOME to a flower or something because you can not really
promote feet there.