[Its.an.education.project] Logo proposal

[Morgan Collett]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> Simon Dorner wrote:
>
>
> > Hm, that reminds me of something that I wrote some time ago. Some of  the
> questions and concerns have been addressed since then but the main
> experiment revolved around letting children draw or photograph their  own
> avatar image as a replacement of the XO icon to make the  neighborhood view
> more usable.
> >
> > This is the mockup:
> http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Image:Meshview_avatars.png
> >
> > This is the text:
> http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Improvements_of_Mesh-View
> >
> > I think that could also be extremely popular with children. Just a
> thought...
> >
>
>  A long time ago, I remember someone saying publicly that we'd take a
>  thumbnail of the owner on first login and use that as an avatar.
>
>  Maybe the idea was put aside for lack of time, or maybe we were afraid
>  of what the usual ultra-concerned parents would think.

We disabled the support for avatars in Presence Service (and hence in
mesh view) in the Trial 2 milestone because of performance problems.
Adding it back in the future is on a non-prioritised list of tasks for
PS.

>  Eben, what do you think?

Regards
Morgan