Máirín Duffy wrote:
The marketing-list thread seems very focused on animals; a mascot could
be a character too, though, right?
My vision is like this: even if we and with an animal, it has to be
anthropomorphic so we can use it in various situations: fix servers,
kick Clippy's behind, racing the Daemon and other funny situations.
Actually, so this is totally inbred I think, but - for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat has put out a series of little videos that
simplify and explain the technology coming out with RHEL 5:
http://www.redhat.com/videos/real_tech/
Those are also very popular on YouTube -
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=red+hat+real+technology+lesson&search=Search
They've got these cute little tofu-like characters in them that
represent systems. Very simple, but cute, and I think they bring a
friendly face to the product. I think that is kind of what we are
looking for, right?
I think so, but with a cuter character.
From the thread on marketing-list and some comments I saw in our IRC
channel, I think some of the main points being brought up as issues to
solve are:
1) the Fedora logo is somewhat impersonal
2) it's not 'ours' - eg the community didn't create it and doesn't own
it so we're restricted in using it
3) it's not very good fodder for plush animals :)
4) it seems many suspect it doesn't reach out to as broad an audience as
a well-done mascot might.
Also the official logo don't give me the artistic freedom to create
something like this: http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/otto_dueling.svg (old
and ugly images, but I hope you get the idea)
I think probably the main goal for a mascot for Fedora, then, to be
derived from the list of issues above: a community-created and
maintained mascot for the Fedora project that brings a friendly
personality to the project and reaches out to our target audience.
This is fine.
Of course, a very difficult question I think is: who is our target
audience?
One idea for moving forward would be for us to think of what
characters/mascots/ even TV commercials we associate with different
products and try to figure out what we like/don't like about each. We
could go through youtube.com, for example, and look for popular/funny
commercials that worked, that people liked and uploaded.
A problem I see: we as a team are spread around the world, so the
characters/mascots, TV commercials and products we see every day are not
exactly the same so we really need to use something like youtube.
OK, now I head to the wiki and start a page there...
--
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