Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Mascot

I heard of EuroOffice for years - no comment on their fork.  I am not 
sure I like their horse mascot.  I am not too fond of the stylized bird 
used by OpenOffice.org for years.

Mascot being a moving animal, well there are a lot of different birds 
that would work.  Using a "raptor" or bird of prey.  If we could find a 
bird that could be seen as a stealthy bird and one not afraid to "hunt 
in the territory of a bigger bird of prey" - that might work for us.  
The open source community are like the smaller "bird hunting" to find 
their market nitch that the "big birds" really do not want to give up.

For me, I keep thinking that LO is slowly working to take on various 
platforms.  So far, LO has taken over Linux's platforms from 
OpenOffice.org - from day one.  Then Windows and Mac platforms came 
quickly.  Although LO has not made really much headway against MS 
Office, to me it seems LO is slowly gaining a market share a little at a 
time. LO is working on an Android version and later I do not doubt 
Apple's IOS will see a version.

A mascot needs to reflect what we are now as well as what we want to be 
seen as in the future.


On 04/03/2017 01:20 PM, Anxhelo Lushka wrote:
> Had never heard about EuroOffice before, hmm
>
> I think that our mascot should mostly represent moving animals, most
> aerial ones, since IMO they transmit the sense of freedom, speed and
> improvement.
>
>
> On 04/03/2017 07:08 PM, Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> >   I don't know if it could be a real issue for a horse as a mascot, but the
> > EuroOffice (based on OpenOffice/LibreOffice) already uses a horse in its
> > logo:
> >   http://www.multiracio.com/index.php?lang=en&style=eurooffice&page=eo
> >
> > Best!
> > Gustavo.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Tim-L--Elmira-NY <
> > webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I liked the Duke Java mascot.  The other two seemed too cartoon-ish for me.
> > >
> > > I have seen many horse mascots - not for any computer field item - and
> > > those looked nice.  I fear that if the mascot is too cartoon-ish, then it
> > > might give some people the idea of LO being non-professional.  Tux, Duke,
> > > Firefox, Thunderbird, and some other mascots do not look too much like a
> > > catroon as some others do.
> > >
> > > Google "horse mascots logos" in their image section.  There are a lot of
> > > them, including some nice ones. Maybe we could use some African animal like
> > > a gazelle or similar looking animal.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 03/31/2017 10:22 AM, Edwin Lee wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > How about a mascot based on a horse, signifying freedom for OSS and ODF,
> > > > speed for a rapid release cycle, many breeds for the different versions
> > > > available on a variety of platforms.
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Edwin
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Heiko Tietze [mailto:tietze.heiko@googlemail.com]
> > > > Sent: Friday, 31 March 2017 3:51 PM
> > > > To: LibO Marketing <marketing@global.libreoffice.org>; LibO Design <
> > > > design@global.libreoffice.org>; LibO Project <
> > > > projects@global.libreoffice.org>
> > > > Cc: TDF BoD <bod@documentfoundation.org>
> > > > Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Mascot
> > > >
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > additional to the unique branding of LibreOffice today, we want to
> > > > introduce an alternative to TDF's trademarked logo/icon elements that can
> > > > be used by the community with minimal restrictions: a mascot.
> > > >
> > > > The idea is similar to "Duke" from Java (https://kenai.com/projects/du
> > > > ke/pages/Home), SuSE's chameleon "Geeko", Mozilla has a
> > > > lizard/godzilla/tyrannosaurus, Linux' "Tux" is famous, KDE is going with
> > > > the dragon "Konqi" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqi) and Krita has
> > > > "Kiki" (https://krita.org/en/kiki/).
> > > >
> > > > The first step would be to find some metaphors that enables designs to be
> > > > creative. Something like Freedom, Documents, Openness etc. Ideas for the
> > > > realization are of course also welcome. The mascot could be an animal like
> > > > a (grumpy old) cat to refer to the seven lives of LibreOffice or something
> > > > more symbolic.
> > > >
> > > > Based on your input we would later start the actual design task, and
> > > > ideally have a few options where the community can choose the best.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Heiko
> > >
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