Mascot

Origin: !53 (comment 462102)

Idea:

We need a mascot.

Ideas:

I'm calling these little guys, pmOSes

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An argument could be made for also an animal or creature that isn't just the postmarketOS logo. Please by all means, throw more ideas out!

Drawbacks

Some may ask... is it really necessary? Bu I say, really, who is to resist a cute a lovable mascot!

Totally agree this would be super cool! I've talked with @ollieparanoid, and after finishing the PMCR process, we think this is out of the scope of it. It seems not to be too disruptive, or require a considerable amount of planning across the project. It is more like a task for the "Design Team", or those in charge of our brand. Therefore, moving to the artwork repo.

moved from pmcr#3 (moved)

I really like the pmOSes :)

It should definitely be made official.

I love these so much they are so adorable. I would love for them to have a name that isn't just the project though. Maybe "Posteys" or "Markeys"?

I do think it would be useful to have a more "professional" mascot to put on branding or other stuff (e.g. first boot welcome screen), but these are great potentially... side-mascots?

I think for professional things, we can just use the normal plain logo.

Hmmm good suggestions for names!

Hey @RannyBergamotte, thanks for your work on these - I love them too as you know and I'm happy that they are now featured here: https://postmarketos.org/contribute/ (also in the last monthly blog post and in my fosdem talk)

We talked about making this an official mascot or not in the core contributor meeting today, and decided not to. It would be great to have a mascot eventually, but it should be like @JustSoup321 said above a bit more professional like the dragon that KDE has etc, instead of "just the pmOS logo with a smiley face on it". Maybe get multiple drafts and then ask the community to vote on them or something - but also this is something we don't want to spend a lot of time on right now (as there is a lot of things going on in pmOS, and we need to choose where to spend our time). So we will probably come back later to this.

With that being said, this is not an official mascot now, but still this cute logo variation can be used in lots of places and bring a lot of joy to people (and already has judging from the reactions I've seen)!

Hey, @ollieparanoid, If postmarketOS is getting a renaming, could also be a good opportunity for mascot time? If so, what is the timeline on the name renaming? I can see if I can manage to make some drafts.

Timeline will be discussed in pmcr!6 but it's certainly to be measured in months, not weeks. So yeah, might be a great time for a mascot :D

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