[openstack-dev] [Ironic] A mascot for Ironic

Devananda van der Veen devananda.vdv at gmail.com
Mon Nov 17 21:42:40 UTC 2014


This whole thread is made of awesome. Adding a drum kit that's built out of
servers is just piling on more awesome.

Cheers for the great mascot drawings, Lucas!

Deva

On Mon Nov 17 2014 at 8:20:09 AM Jim Rollenhagen <jim at jimrollenhagen.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 01:14:13PM +0000, Lucas Alvares Gomes wrote:
> > Hi Ironickers,
> >
> > I was thinking this weekend: All the cool projects does have a mascot
> > so I thought that we could have one for Ironic too.
> >
> > The idea about what the mascot would be was easy because the RAX guys
> > put "bear metal" their presentation[1] and that totally rocks! So I
> > drew a bear. It also needed an instrument, at first I thought about a
> > guitar, but drums is actually my favorite instrument so I drew a pair
> > of drumsticks instead.
> >
> > The drawing thing wasn't that hard, the problem was to digitalize it.
> > So I scanned the thing and went to youtube to watch some tutorials
> > about gimp and inkspace to learn how to vectorize it. Magic, it
> > worked!
> >
> > Attached in the email there's the original draw, the vectorized
> > version without colors and the final version of it (with colors).
> >
> > Of course, I know some people does have better skills than I do, so I
> > also attached the inkspace file of the final version in case people
> > want to tweak it :)
> >
> > So, what you guys think about making this little drummer bear the
> > mascot of the Ironic project?
> >
> > Ahh he also needs a name. So please send some suggestions and we can
> > vote on the best name for him.
> >
> > [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oi2T2pSGDU#t=90
> >
> > Lucas
>
> +1000, this is awesome.
>
> A cool variation would be to put a drum set behind the bear, made
> out of servers. :)
>
> // jim
>
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