On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 10:36 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > 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. I couldn't care less. Point me some originality in Ubuntu, and I can consider my position. > > 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. I've supplied alternatives. I've choosen the Iberian Lynx as a form to translate my thoughts because he lives in Portugal and Spain and he is my neighbor. Didn't felt like loosing time searching for other species. I did flavoured a national cause (Portugal and Spain), because I am Portuguese. > > 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. Well, it's better than associating it with Genghis Kahn (aka Temujin) the Impaler. Do I see some sense here? And from another point of view: http://www.unep.ch/ It is a subject being supported by the United Nations. And even further: http://www.unep.org/awards/ >> Do we have a GNOME Logo there? If such thing happened, what were the benefits GNOME would take from it? My 2 cents, PS: I've offered alternatives, such as the Spider Monkeys and the Red Wolfs during this thread. Spider Monkeys means fighting against the de-florestation of the Amazonian Rain Forest, and Red Wolfs is a US national cause. In case we aint going for the cats. nelson > > Cheers, > Dave. >
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