OMG the Sugar-Glider is SOOOO Cute! Love it.  Wow, you can even have them as pets - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Glider">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Glider</a>. These are great thoughts.  I have no skills in this area so I would greatly appreciate people thinking about how we are going to brand and what form factors we should use for the USBs for Sugar on a Stick.  I'm also thinking that lollipops with logos on them or something like that would be great give aways when we advertise Sugar on a Stick.  Help very much wanted turning these ideas into cute clean spiffy reality. Thanks, Caroline <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Jameson Quinn <<a href="mailto:jameson.quinn@gmail.com">jameson.quinn@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I think that Sugarlabs can do better at branding in general. A good branding presence has related logos for the organization and for the product; color swatches, 4 or 5 at a time (not just 2-by-2; including greys, we have at most 3 at a time); a decorative font; and more workaday serif and sans-serif fonts chosen to go well with the decorative font. I'm not saying we need all of this tomorrow, but that should be the direction we're heading. Think, for instance, of the excellent branding of the Obama campaign, which AFAIK was completely available to the grassroots and nevertheless (in a totally content-free regard) kicked the pants off of McCain's more-centralized campaign. Immediate action items: 1. I really think the svg should be up in a public place, as well as (references for) the font (is that the ubuntu font, or other?). 2. We need a logo for sugar, as opposed to sugar labs and OLPC. The XO dude is inevitably going to have associations with OLPC which might turn off other hardware vendors. I guess the obvious option would be the "sugar" part of the sugarlabs logo. 3. Personally, I'd love a mascot too; kids like cuddly. My initial brainstorms: associated with sugar? <div style="margin-left: 40px;">Pollinators (nectar) <div style="margin-left: 40px;">Hummingbirds (too western-hemisphere) Bats (anything nocturnal is culturally dangerous, but I love 'em) Bees (good possibility) </div>flies (yuck) ants (has good community associations) gingerbread man (cute, but a little too gendered and shrek-y) bears (too generic) sugarcane fieldworker (yeah, right) </div> I just googled and OMG WE HAVE A <a href="http://images.google.com.gt/images?q=sugar%20glider&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi" target="_blank">WINNER</a> as far as I am concerned. That is cute beyond words and it is called a "sugar glider". I'd never heard of that name even though my mom's Australian but it is beyond my wildest dreams. What do other people think? Jameson _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax