[Its.an.education.project] Logo proposal

[Eben Eliason]

There is a ticket open for part of this idea
(https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6910).  It doesn't detail replacing the
XO with an avatar, but it does at least entail the rest of the
components we'd need to make that possible.

I think that using a photo, potentially in the manner the mockup
shows, is the most logical choice. Stock icons would be second, since
we could provide nice SVGs which still support XO color identity.
Naturally, it would be hard to allow the kids to sketch up their own
XO colorable SVGs (though certainly not impossible, given enough
effort).  My bigger fear, though, is losing the clear distinction
between "person" and "some other object".  The XO is a clear form,
which can be clearly mapped onto "some other person"; if we allow kids
to choose trains, butterflies, turtles, drums, and snakes, they could
easily be confused with Turtle Arts, TamTams and Pippys.  Keeping a
consistent form, whatever that is, for representing the "person" makes
it possible to display various types of objects in the same space
without needing other levels of classification.

- Eben

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> Simon Dorner wrote:
>
> > On 13.05.2008 at 11:51 Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> >
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > It doesn't need to be a picture of the child, although it can be. I  think
> letting children draw a little picture could be much more  interesting and
> fun.
> >
> > I remember that when I was beginning school and I wasn't able to write  my
> name yet, each child got to choose a symbol that would represent  them. My
> symbol was a train. The teacher handed out these stickers  with a train on
> them and I put them on everything that belonged to me  so I could identify
> it. I think that worked really well.
> >
>
>  I like this concept too: either a photo, or a drawing, or a stock icon.
>  Unless Eben has a better idea, we could make this a feature for a future
>  version of Sugar.
>
>
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