Re: a mascot maybe'd help

[John Williams <jwilliams business otago ac nz>]

On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 13:45 -0400, Javier Aravena wrote:

> answer to the "if gnome was a person, how would it look like"
The answer to that question is not really important.  One could just as
usefully ask "If GNOME was a car", "If GNOME was an alcoholic drink"
etc.  What matters is the attributes that people mention.

> besides, if the brand has a character it helps the brand to be closer
> to the user, as what happens with tux, the bsd daemon, the firefox red
> panda, or, eventually, the gnome girl/guy/whatever 
Whatever, not a girl or guy.  There is a reason why all the logos you
mention are not people: you have to choose a sex, and risk alienating
the other one.

> btw, I'm sorry for my poor english.
It's good enough for me, Javier!  :-)

Thanks for floating this idea.  Personally, I think that a logo plus a
mascot is overkill, but others may differ on this one.