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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
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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]
_______________________________________________
LinuxPLC mailing list
[email protected]
http://linuxplc.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxplc