My original impetus to all this toe-stepping was due to the mega-mergers
happening in all quarters around us.  I KNOW we don't _have_ to raise our
voices--the fact I use NetBSD is because the noise is low (grin)--but it's all
about advocacy, isn't it?  

If there's enough interest, I would have no problem locating and paying for a
design firm to come up with something very...  um...  professional; whatever TNF
agrees that is.  For the website, t-shirts, whatever.  After six years of lip
service, I wanna put money on the table.

My thought (if anyone cares) is to keep the daemon, but create a relatively
abstract design that reflects our ace-in-the-hole:  scalability and
portability.  Like a quad-alpha mainframe (we're on the cusp of some very nice
SMP) with a handheld PDA (with the daemon on the screen) superimposed on it.  We
could then keep the 'Of course it runs NetBSD' slogan.  An idea.  Trash away.

Why worry about all this?  Can't we get back to coding?  If we had to ask this,
we wouldn't be subscribed to this mailing list.

My 2 farthings.

dhop

"Aaron J. Grier" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 09:01:17AM -0800, David Hopper wrote:
> 
> > That said, there's not too many cool daemon ideas left.  What's left?
> 
> I always liked the "NetBSD platform tour" design myself...
> 
> perhaps a winged daemon (fairy?) with magic dust coming off the
> pitchfork, flying across a line of computers -- the ones that have had
> sprinkled magic dust on them are "working" (have muscles or smiles or
> some indication that they're functioning well) while the ones that
> haven't are looking sad and dejected or covered in cobwebs and dust.
> 
> NetBSD: providing a modern operating system for your not-so-modern hardware
> since 1993(?)
> 
> --
>   Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@poofygoof.com
>   "Time Correct function allows automatically correcting slight variation
>    of your key touching manner."  --  Roland MSQ-700 manual