[IAEP] Add Fedora logo to Sugar

[David Farning]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Roland Gesthuizen
<rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 2008/12/9 Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
>>
>> On 9 Dec 2008, at 04:05, Jameson Quinn wrote:
>>
>> > Just out of curiosity: that is a squirrel, not a possum, right? I
>> > mean, it is a "rascally rodent", so it would have to be. What is its
>> > name?
>
> Phew, for once I can wear my other hat as a science teacher and not feel so
> out of place on this list with all the super IT experts. It's name is
> Petaurus breviceps :-D
>
>>
>> Frank (Frankie), yea he's a flying squirrel.
>>
>> > (It is amazing how hard it is to distinguish the sugar glider from a
>> > flying squirrel, given that we are much closer genetically to a
>> > squirrel than the sugar glider is.)
>
> The Australian sugar glider is a marsupial. Some of you would be curious to
> know that it has a pouch and is related to the kangaroo and koala, not the
> mouse or squirrel.
>
>>
>> If we went for a similar level of quality render as to Frankie, the
>> colour patterning (black ears, black/white face stripes, grey body
>> rather than brown) and face details (pink nose, black eyes) should
>> make a pretty distinct character design, but most people at best, will
>> still just think it's a flying squirrel.
>
> Markings are not a big deal .. room for lots of interpretation. All cool and
> cute!
>
>> P.S. If there was a general desire to go 3d, I'd be willing to build,
>> render and release the data, but I'd not want to burn the hours until
>> there was some form of consensus on needing a mascot, and some
>> examples of how/where it would be used to good effect. The Sugar UI
>> style is symbolic/abstract, so a good design should leverage that
>> Sugar art direction (i.e 3D realistic or cartoon styles are really too
>> different to fit comfortably in my opinion).
>
> I probably got this ball rolling, didnt want it to take up all your time
> folks. It was just a thought after looking at the styling used for Firefox
> and Thunderbird. I dread long meetings that rabbit on about the colour of
> conference bags. Please don't let this stop or distract you all from the
> bigger mission :-)

On the contrary, this has been a wonderful conversation:)  Many
people, including yourself, have shared interesting parts of your
personalities outside of 'Sugar Developer'  over the last few days.

A large part of the Sugar Project is the belief that we, as a
community, can harness the _passions_ of smart people across the world
through the open source development process to create a learning
platform which can cost effectively take advantage of recent advances
in technology to help kids learn.

IAEP is a conversation with a large group of passionate people who
have come together to share common interests in education, technology,
and helping kids.  The same norms and conventions that make a face to
face conversation productive and interesting make the IAEP list
interesting.

david

> Regards Roland
>
> --
> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
>
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> the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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