Re: [GENERAL] Call for design: PostgreSQL mugs

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On 05-Sep-2013, at 13:28, Alban Hertroys <haramrae(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> What about "Don't ignore the elephant in the room"?
>
>
> On 5 September 2013 09:24, Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Jean-Paul Argudo
>> <jean-paul(at)postgresql(dot)fr> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Le jeudi 05 septembre 2013 à 12:33 +0530, Atri Sharma a écrit :
>> >> Make an elephant in a space suit, or with lots of equipments. Text:
>> >> 'Ready for mission critical systems'
>> >
>> > Despite I like this idea a lot, I think we should avoid messages like
>> > "Ready for.." or such, since it implies PG wasn't ready before, wich is
>> > mostly false in all the cases.
>> >
>> > I think we'd better focus on what we're good at, like community
>> > management, quality of code, respect of the standard, and such... or why
>> > not just jokes, since I think we could just make this simple and funny..
>> > (I don't really think we have anything to proove anymore since facts
>> > talk for us).
>> >
>> > This could lead to positive messages like (just samples I tought about,
>> > and mostly to be rebranded completely!!):
>> >
>> > Focusing what we know best:
>> >
>> > * Community driven makes it just better
>> > * Our code matters more than their commercials (~Debian I know)
>> > * We are a few thousand only reviewing and testing it
>> > * Unbreakable Open-Source Community (if you know what I mean there)
>> > * etc..
>> >
>> > Funnier messages:
>> >
>> > * My spouse told me to use it, I swear
>> > * PostgreSQL, saves money all around the world
>> > * """"""""""""""""" time """"""""""""""""""""
>> > * One rdbms to rule them all
>> > * Vulcains would use it
>> > * etc..
>> >
>> > :-)
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
>> >> <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> wrote:
>> >> > Put a small elephant logo *inside* the mug. With a text: "also for embedded
>> >> > systems"
>> >> >
>> >> > - Heikki
>> >> >
>> >> >
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>> > --
>> > Jean-Paul
>> >
>>
>> Good one.
>>
>> One thing we could do, remove the 'Ready' and only keep 'For mission...'.
>>
>> Other thing is a lot of elephants sitting around a table with
>> laptops(optional) denoting our community. Or a lot of elephant heads
>> clustered together and smiling. An awesome community is something we
>> all are proud of!
>>
>>

That could be double meaning!