E L Tonkin py7elt@bath.ac.uk wrote: <snip>
So maybe the best thing to do [read: least controversial] is simply to pick another obsecure animal and trust that just about everybody is going to get to know what the FSFE logo is pretty soon anyway. After all, they accepted the GNU logo and the symbolism of that is not in the least obvious. Or indeed one might go for a different sort of gnu. Or preferably some creature with optional bright colours such that you can happily stick it on a T-shirt. A puffin, for example... something geeks would want to wear. Nice, bright, simple, easy to draw... ;-)
<snip> *couldn't agree more*
Ok, here some idea's: O, yes: if an complicated Logo is chosen, it will attract complicated people, the same for funny Logo, creative Logo, happy Logo, abstract Logo and so on... So you can also take the queston "what kind of people do we want to attract", and create a Logo accordingly.
Animal: `emotional'-connection FSFE:
Gnu (wildebeast) stubborn? (looks kinda st. to me...) Linux-Penguin happy, no problems (this is all extremely personal, but anyway...) Blue background, yellow stars dunno ;-) flame I think this might associate with `going beond', idealism in a construcive way (??). Europa on Gnu-back with map Gives me a spring-feeling personnaly. Worm hmmm dog loyal, good friend etc. cat ...
Fish, birds, mammol (cat, dog/wolf, grass-eaters, bears, ...), insects (lots of them...), reptilian, non-vertibrans, (plants?, minerals?, fiction?).
What about a brick, just plain and simple.