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Curt Wuollet
Ken Crater wrote:
> Hi all,
> Jennifer Powell, apart from being the moderator of the Automation List, is
> also a commercial artist. She has created a mascot for the LinuxPLC project
> which I propose we adopt as a symbol and logo: the Puffin! (a small sea
> bird with lots of personality)
>
> You can see her rendering at:
> http://linuxplc.org/images/puffin.gif
>
> Why is a puffin the perfect symbol for an open source controller?
>
> Puffins are long-lived...
> 1. Puffins can live for more than 30 years, if they're lucky!
> Puffins are fast...
> 2. A puffin can fly about 40 miles an hour, and will beat its wings about 300 to 400 times a minute.
> Puffins are reliable...
> 3. Puffins usually return to the same burrow and nest with the same mate year after year.
> Puffins are powerful...
> 4. Where soil conditions permit, puffins can tunnel eight feet or more
> underground when excavating a burrow.
> Puffins are successful...
> 5. It is estimated that there are about 6 million pairs of puffins in the world.
> Puffins are popular...
> 6. In Iceland puffins are part of a long-standing cultural connection to the
> sea. They are eaten in restaurants and homes.
> Puffins participate fully in the oceanic economy...
> 7. The puffin's number-one enemy is the Great Black-backed Gull, which kills
> and eats adult puffins and chicks when it can catch them.
>
> (puffin facts are courtesy of the Audubon Society Project Puffin
> http://puffin.bird.audubon.org/, used by permission)
>
> Linux has a penguin, we should have a puffin. I'd be glad to register it as
> a trademark in the U.S. and assign the rights to the project. What do you
> think?
>
> Regards,
> Ken Crater
> [email protected]
A rose by any other name....................
Hi Ken and all
Since we are being a little commercial and materialistic, I think we should keep
Linux in the name.
Linux is hot and we absolutely want to differentiate from the other PC control
schemes. How about
a traditionally (in the UNIX crowd) clever acronym like P.L.C. The Puffin
Linux Controller system.
Regards
Curt W
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> Hi all,
> Jennifer Powell, apart from being the moderator of the Automation List, is
> also a commercial artist. She has created a mascot for the LinuxPLC project
> which I propose we adopt as a symbol and logo: the Puffin! (a small sea
> bird with lots of personality)
>
> You can see her rendering at:
> http://linuxplc.org/images/puffin.gif
>
> Why is a puffin the perfect symbol for an open source controller?
>
> Puffins are long-lived...
> 1. Puffins can live for more than 30 years, if they're lucky!
> Puffins are fast...
> 2. A puffin can fly about 40 miles an hour, and will beat its wings about 300 to 400 times a minute.
> Puffins are reliable...
> 3. Puffins usually return to the same burrow and nest with the same mate year after year.
> Puffins are powerful...
> 4. Where soil conditions permit, puffins can tunnel eight feet or more
> underground when excavating a burrow.
> Puffins are successful...
> 5. It is estimated that there are about 6 million pairs of puffins in the world.
> Puffins are popular...
> 6. In Iceland puffins are part of a long-standing cultural connection to the
> sea. They are eaten in restaurants and homes.
> Puffins participate fully in the oceanic economy...
> 7. The puffin's number-one enemy is the Great Black-backed Gull, which kills
> and eats adult puffins and chicks when it can catch them.
>
> (puffin facts are courtesy of the Audubon Society Project Puffin
> http://puffin.bird.audubon.org/, used by permission)
>
> Linux has a penguin, we should have a puffin. I'd be glad to register it as
> a trademark in the U.S. and assign the rights to the project. What do you
> think?
>
> Regards,
> Ken Crater
> [email protected]
A rose by any other name....................
Hi Ken and all
Since we are being a little commercial and materialistic, I think we should keep
Linux in the name.
Linux is hot and we absolutely want to differentiate from the other PC control
schemes. How about
a traditionally (in the UNIX crowd) clever acronym like P.L.C. The Puffin
Linux Controller system.
Regards
Curt W
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[email protected]
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