Adoption duke

[Donald Smith]

But maybe we can keep that same theme and just give him a bit of 
modernization and maybe some different angles/contexts with that same 
"plugging in" style.


  - Don

On 28/02/2014 11:29 AM, Cecilia Borg wrote:
> Ah, my bad, hadn't realized that :)
>
> Cecilia
>
> 28 feb 2014 kl. 06:03 skrev Martijn Verburg:
>
>> FYI - We currently use the Duke that plugs the 2 sockets together and for Adopt a JSR we use the Duke holding the "Lets get Started" sign.  I'm not necessarily against a new Duke, but there are a couple of existing options in use already...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martijn
>>
>>
>> On 28 February 2014 00:15, Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Take matter into his own hands"!!!
>>
>> I also hope I'll get a T-shirt with his new duke at some point ;)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mario
>> Il 28/feb/2014 00:47 "Cecilia Borg" <cecilia.borg at oracle.com> ha scritto:
>>
>>> I'll hand in all ideas to him, but suggest we don't discuss our design
>>> ideas, rather what we want to say "take matter into his own hands". Actual
>>> design can quickly turn into a really long discussion.
>>> I like your thinking though - Adoption gives you wings.
>>>
>>> Cecilia
>>>
>>> 27 feb 2014 kl. 15:44 skrev Donald Smith:
>>>
>>>> Don't know if we want to up-level this at all, but when we had the
>>> "Jetpack Duke" I always imagined that a good Duke for OpenJDK would be one
>>> who is flying on his own.  Eg, a Duke that takes matters into his own hands
>>> than rely on something else.
>>>> - Don
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 27/02/2014 6:39 PM, Cecilia Borg wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I talked to Jeff Dinkins, who have drawn some Dukes' in the past, if he
>>> could do one for the Adopt group and he was positive!
>>>>> So - do we want one?
>>>>> What input should we give him in that case?
>>>>>
>>>>> As I asked Jeff about this, I'm positive towards the idea. It would be
>>> neat for JUG meetings to have the ability to do t-shirts and swag with
>>> Adoption Duke :)
>>>>> I want to avoid as much committee work as possible in any design
>>> process, so rather than discussing how the Duke should look, I wonder if we
>>> could describe the program and audience to Jeff and he - as the artist,
>>> could put his creativity in it?
>>>>> (Can you spot the OS mascots designed by an artist or the ones that are
>>> the result of a committee discussion? (Sotji, ahem...))
>>>>> Cecilia
>>>>>
>>>>>
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