Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

["Seamus Malan" <dreamteam operamail com>]

Hi,

I may not be a Thai but my understanding is the foot is offensive not just to Thais but rest of the Tai-Kedai people also. The Thais are just but one group within the Tai-Kedai ethnicity although without doubt they are numerically speaking the largest. Other Tai-Kedai people include the Zhuang, Li, Laotians (for a complete listing, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_peoples). The whole sum i.e. potential target market comes up to be about ~105-110 million of them depending on which estimates you want to believe.

This may sound ludcicrous but I do know of some Thai friends who are from Bangkok as well as Isaan (i.e. north-eastern Thais who are ethnic Lao) and all said they would prefer not to use any operating system or DEs with a foot as its logo.


Rgds,
Shaun - Singaporean Chinese

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Theppitak Karoonboonyanan" <thep linux thai net>
> To: "Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan" <sharuzzaman gmail com>
> Subject: Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo
> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:42:45 +0700
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
> <sharuzzaman gmail com> wrote:
> 
> > I come from Malaysia. I do understand about the cultural issue regarding
> > foot in people  especially in the South East Asia area.
> >
> > Currently, from my observation, there is no setback from people in Malaysia
> > with the usage of foot as GNOME logo. Most of the people that are interested
> > to use GNOME did not really care about the foot logo, but some do ask
> > question why foot was chosen as the logo.
> 
> Thanks for the information. Actually, I think people who are willing to
> accept GNOME can accept its logo. But the problem I've been facing
> is about introducing it to people who are totally new. And I'd say,
> almost *everyone* I introduce GNOME to asks me the question, with
> different levels of reactions. And repeatedly answering the question
> over time becomes too much for me. I think I'm more happy to answer
> technical or philosophical questions instead.
> 
> > As for alternative of the foot logo, maybe GNOME team can come up with a
> > simple "G" logo, that can be used for community that thinks foot is not nice
> > to associated with.
> >
> > The same logo can then be used in the user interface, documentation, or
> > other material when you are trying to introduce GNOME to them.
> 
> Thanks for supporting the alternative logo, and for the suggestion.
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
> http://linux.thai.net/~thep/
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