Just another suggestion, Australia have a native small marsupial called a Sugar Glider. <br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Glider">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Glider</a><br><br>Small, highly adaptable and can quickly cover large distances by
gliding. Worth considering if you want to stay with the "Sugar" name. I have a colleague who can help prepare an SVG logo if needed.<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/7 Sebastian Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@fuentelibre.org">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've been pondering how to put this forward. I have not the intention<br>
of causing disruption, however I think this subject is very important.<br>
<br>
I was surprised that our main UI metaphor - a CHILD, the center of<br>
activities... a Symbol for Interacting and Sharing... would be<br>
restricted for our use as a community movement.<br>
<br>
Suddendly the XO was more like a "DELL" logo rather than a child to me.<br>
It made me a bit uncomfortable to think OLPC (with its track record of<br>
wise community decisions) could tell what I could or could not do with<br>
a vanilla sugar system.<br>
<br>
But now we're expected to embed another Copyrighted, Trademarked logo,<br>
that carries no meaning or significance for our target audience, nor<br>
any possible use in the user interface.<br>
<br>
In order to avoid an all out misunderstanding flame, please inform<br>
yourself of a similar problem on this Debian Bug:<br>
<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622" target="_blank">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622</a><br>
<br>
So I think the healthiest thing is for Sugar to make an all out<br>
contest for a Sugar Person and/or Mascot for the UI, and refuse any<br>
branding requests made by any computer manufacturer or GNU<br>
distribution.<br>
<br>
Another colorful if symbolical solution would be for me to fork sugar<br>
(call it Honey) and use the Honey Badger<br>
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_badger" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_badger</a>) as our mascot (its<br>
sometimes refered to as Honey Weasel).<br>
<br>
By the way, I'm deploying largely on non OLPC hardware and not based<br>
on fedora quite soon. Really, at least a branch will have to exist for<br>
the rest of us?<br>
<br>
Sebastian<br>
<br>
2008/12/6 Morgan Collett <<a href="mailto:morgan.collett@gmail.com">morgan.collett@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 15:34, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> From <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Eben#Tasks" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Eben#Tasks</a>:<br>
>><br>
>> Add Fedora logo to Sugar<br>
>> We've agreed to include the Fedora logo in our Sugar distributions.<br>
>> (Is this an OLPC agreement, or something SugarLabs should be doing in<br>
>> general?) I've added some thoughts to the ticket (Trac #8767) , but<br>
>> I'd like to get some more feedback and finalize a plan so this doesn't<br>
>> become a last-minute problem.<br>
>><br>
>> ~~~<br>
>><br>
>> SugarLabs wants to help distributions ship Sugar but isn't in the<br>
>> distribution business itself. Distributions are free to take the code<br>
>> we release and modify it at will to better suit their interests. Now,<br>
>> if distros want to be able to incorporate their brands in the Sugar UI<br>
>> and would prefer not to have to apply their own patches to every<br>
>> release, we could devise some way for distros to brand their Sugars<br>
>> without patching code.<br>
>><br>
>> Distro people: what would you like to do regarding branding?<br>
><br>
> I'm quite happy with carrying a patch in the ubuntu packages, and I'm<br>
> sure it would be no problem for debian either. Ubuntu has its logo on<br>
> the GNOME panel with the Applications menu, so seems equivalent to<br>
> that.<br>
><br>
> I think it would be good if the Sugar tarball releases carry no<br>
> specific logo by default (or perhaps a Sugar Labs logo?) with each<br>
> distro including OLPC patching in their desired logo. That would<br>
> ensure there is a well documented method to do the patch.<br>
><br>
> Regards<br>
> Morgan<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead<br>