From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-04-25T12:41:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14190] Re: Ruby mascot proposal

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:14189] Re: Ruby mascot proposal"
    on 01/04/25, "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@us.ibm.com> writes:

|# I really like the female mascot on the page, but it might not be
|# suitable for *official* mascot of the language.
|
|Hmm, do you think that she could be *made* suitable for an official
|mascot, assuming that the artist was willing to listen to reasonable
|suggestions made privately off-line?

I'm not sure.  I'm afraid it may be true that cute things like her is
not suitable for official symbols in western (or American) culture.  I
heard Tux (Linux cute penguin symbol) once suffered similar objection.
And I know she is way cooler than Tux, objection (from the commercial
section) may be harder.  In the meantime, almost no one in the
commercial field pay attention to Ruby, so that it may not be a
problem at all.

I myself coming from Japanese culture, feel very comfortable with
cute symbols.  But I don't want to see silly troubles.

							matz.