[openstack-dev] [ironic] New mascot design

Taryma, Joanna joanna.taryma at intel.com
Mon Feb 6 17:37:41 UTC 2017


Just thinking – horns seem pretty metal, what do you think about goat-like horned bear? :)

Joanna

On 2/6/17, 5:26 AM, "Sam Betts (sambetts)" <sambetts at cisco.com> wrote:

    +100
    
    On 06/02/2017, 12:32, "Dmitry Tantsur" <dtantsur at redhat.com> wrote:
    
        On 02/06/2017 12:49 PM, Miles Gould wrote:
        > On 01/02/17 21:38, Lucas Alvares Gomes wrote:
        >> But, let me ask something, what the foundation really wants to achieve
        >> with this ? Cause I think we are conflating two things here: A logo (or
        >> brand) and a mascot.
        >
        > I think this is an excellent point. The constraints on logos make a lot of sense
        > *for logos*, but it'll be very hard to achieve something like Pixie Boots within
        > them. Could we perhaps use *two* images for different contexts?
        >
        > 1) a stylized logo, matching the guidelines, for use in "official" settings and
        > anywhere that it will be seen alongside other projects' logos;
        > 2) our existing Pixie Boots mascot, for use in "unofficial" settings (laptop
        > stickers, T-shirts, chatbots, The Bear Metal Adventures of Pixie Boots webcomic
        > series*, etc, etc).
        >
        > It'll be much easier to agree on image 1 if we don't reject every proposal for
        > not capturing every nuance of image 2.
        >
        > If that makes sense, I have a suggestion for the next iteration of the logo, if
        > one is needed: take the head from logo version 3.0. AFAICT, that meets all the
        > objections raised so far:
        >
        >  - it's simple and logo-like,
        >  - it's not holding any man-made objects,
        >  - it's friendly,
        >  - it has heavy-metal facial markings,
        >  - it's not making any potentially-obscene gestures.
        >
        > It doesn't look exactly like Pixie Boots, but if we can carry on using Pixie in
        > unofficial contexts, that shouldn't be a problem.
        
        +100 to everything written here.
        
        >
        > Miles
        >
        > * In which Pixie Boots, sysadmin by day and rock musician by night, solves a
        > series of increasingly baffling deployment problems using AWESOME DRUM SOLOS.
        >
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