From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Apr 18 9:21: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from octopus.originative (originat.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C256152F7 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 09:20:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@originative.co.uk) Received: by octopus with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id <2RSVNT52>; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:16:41 +0100 Message-ID: From: paul@originative.co.uk To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, chris@calldei.com Cc: dwilde1@thuntek.net, chrisc@vmunix.com, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, poohsannah@hotmail.com Subject: RE: FreeBSD Friendly Icon Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:16:38 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Jordan K. Hubbard [mailto:jkh@zippy.cdrom.com] > Sent: 18 April 1999 15:51 > To: chris@calldei.com > Cc: Donald Wilde; chrisc@vmunix.com; advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG; > poohsannah@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: FreeBSD Friendly Icon > > > > What, may I ask, was wrong with the cover image from the 2.2 > > CDs? > > There was nothing "wrong" with it, we just saw a need for a little > variety and we'd been using the same image for a couple of years. OK, > so perhaps a tail-less waiter wasn't the best idea for a replacement > we've ever had, but I'm still more than keen to see alternative images > (and put out a call for same long before I ever contracted for the > waiter/news/bug/docs/release related images). Everyone seems to like > the others, FWIW, just the waiter has been "contraversial." I didn't see the other thread on the waiter image but the impression it gave us here was of someone working at McDonalds, not generally a highly respected image :-) I think it was the coke like container he was carrying more than anything that gave that impression rather than the waiter concept. To be honest, I hadn't actually noticed he was tailess. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message