Re: Campaign Proposal

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote:
> Yeah, that's what I meant, "GNOME 2.30: The Philosophical Panther", that
> style of naming.

I really like the idea of federating the art community around GNOME and
DeviantArt and helping make it more visible, and also help grow it.

I appreciate that it's a nice idea to adopt humanitarian causes as a way
of having some of the good feelings people have for them to rub off on us.

But I really don't like the whole endangered species angle. Let me
explain why:

I have some more suggestions for names: "Lucid Lynx", "Intrepid Ibex",
"Jaunty Jackalope", "Hardy Heron"...

I don't mean to put a kybosh on the idea altogether, but the animal name
thing isn't really original, given Ubuntu.

And the iLynx suggestion in the original proposal seems a but Applish,
no? In addition to the "iSomething" convention, Apple has used Cheetah,
Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard as OS X release
codenames, so choosing a big cat doesn't seem like a good idea.

One other negative remark - do we really want to have GNOME associated
with extinct or almost extinct animals? While the Siberian Tiger, the
Iberian Lynx, the Javan Rhino and the Mountain Gorilla make for nice
icons, there are almost none left, and their population is in decline.
Is that the association we want people to make when they think of GNOME?

Anyway - sorry to be the party pooper.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org