[coreboot] The coreboot hare

Joseph Smith joe at settoplinux.org
Tue Jul 1 16:03:19 CEST 2008




On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 06:18:11 -0700, "ron minnich" <rminnich at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
> <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> Veto because no community input was sought during any of the review
>> phases. Sorry.
>> I will continue to use the penguin for all contest entries and the
>> pending magazine articles until we have a design which had community
>> review during the design process.
>>
>>
> 
> ah. well. Speaking as the person who
> o tried for 12 months to get community input on the name and logo, and
> o who then went to a small group in search of input, and
> o who tried to design a voting mechanism and
> o again requested input, and
> o got nothing from anyone!, and
> o who greatly appreciates your contributions to coreboot,
> 
> I am very sorry you feel this way!
> 
> I have passed this logo by a great many NON-coreboot, NON-computer
> types. They loved it, without exception. That said, we could consider
> community input and a vote and I feel pretty strongly that the new
> logo would win such a vote :-)
> 
> We need to make some progress here. I love the new logo, personally,
> but more important, it's time to move on on the name change and logo.
> We tried and failed for one full year to get a new logo. This was the
> best we were able to get. But, I think it's really, really good.
> 
> Let's get a decision on this. Do we vote?
> 
We can vote....but so far there is only one person that doesn't like it. 
And I would say so far he is out voted :-)

-- 
Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org





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