From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2008-08-24T12:18:31+09:00
Subject: Re: A Mascot...

On 8/23/08, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
>  I don't have to "back down" from putting the image on my Ruby-related
>  sites because it would never occur to me to do it in the first place.
>
>  Please -- everyone, just put whatever images you want on your
>  websites, and have done with it. If Matz wants there to be a Ruby
>  mascot I'm sure he'll let us know. Meanwhile please channel some of
>  this energy into real issues, like why we as a community have not
>  blazed the new trail of inclusiveness across sexual boundaries that it
>  once seemed we might. And maybe we will yet. That, unlike debate as to
>  whether Ruby should be represented by a girl or a chunk of bacon, is
>  the kind of thing that might really lead somewhere.
>

Well said. We should just link to this message when this topic arises
yet again, next year.

--Wilson.