Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 16:56:38 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: chrisc@vmunix.com, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Garance Alistair Drosehn <gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Friendly Icon Message-ID: <v04020a00b33ff32a5d36@[128.113.30.73]> In-Reply-To: <2425.924447058@zippy.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Sun, 18 Apr 1999 09:28:09 CDT." <19990418092809.B37740@holly.dyndns.org>
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At 7:50 AM -0700 4/18/99, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > ..., 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). I had some ideas for an image back at the 3.0 release, but I seem to be having some trouble getting an artistic friend of mine to draw them up. (if I were to draw it, no one will have any clue what it is!) In addition to Jordan's request for images at the time, what got me thinking was that I wanted something which 'worked better' for multiple CPU configurations. An icon with one BSD daemon standing around can be cute-ish, but when you have two or four of them just standing there it looks more like they're just a group of loafers loitering on a street corner... So, I wanted something that implied 'harnessing power', and something which would scale up to 'multiple' of whatever was being harnessed. One idea was to have the BSD daemon in a sled, powered by something like an Alaskan malamute. The sled could be carrying CD's, or maybe it shouldn't be obvious what it's carrying. Multi-processor systems (such as web sites) could just modify this to include more malamutes (an alaskan malamute is any of a breed of powerful heavy-coated deep-chested dogs of Alaskan origin with erect ears, heavily cushioned feet, and plumy tail, used for pulling sleds). The other idea was the BSD daemon on some kind of stage-coach, being pulled by sea horses. I forget why I wanted seahorses over regular horses. Basically I haven't thought about this one quite as much as the malamute one. I think one of these could work out pretty good, if I could just get someone who was a bit faster at drawing than my friend seems to be. (it's been, what, six months now?), and considerably better at drawing than I am (unless you want some stick figures...). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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