On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:44:16PM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
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> Daemon imagery is forbidden? nice. We're going to end up with
> something stupid like OpenBSD's blowfish. Pray that they continue to

The discussion has been and done.  I think that the daemon may stay
around (though that may be just a misinterpretation on my part),
but it was disallowed for the contest logos.

My thought was to submit a logo based on a cockroach.  It has lots
of appropriate qualities, not least of which is being non-daemonish.  (^&
A caption could be, "Our only bugs are in the logo!" (which isn't 100%
true, but...).  Or "We get everywhere."  Or, "We survive."  Or even,
"We have ancestral roots at universities..."  Alas, I didn't get around
to doing more than the concept before the deadline.

Roaches are also non-fuzzy (someone objected to fuzzy mascotts), and
we could hardly be accused of going with the characture just because
it was cute/popular.  And you can do things with roaches, giving them
toys to play with (and with 6 limbs, you've got more lattitude for
toys).

I rather doubt that we get a roach-based logo, though.

We'll see what's unveiled when the time comes.


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