On 11/24/2008 10:45 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > >> Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: >>> There are some t-shirt's decorations available at: >>> >>> http://wiki.centos.org/Promo/Tshirts >> >> Okay. The second one is completely "overloaded". The first one would >> look good with only one of the "flowers". >> >> The rest somehow is missing the CentOS reference, as I don't think that >> the slogans are self explaining. >> >> But the overall looks is great, we'd just have to mix some CentOS >> reference in there >:) > > That is why for the stickers we chose to take the slogan: > > CentOS: Enterprise Linux for the people > > So that at least people know that it is an Enterprise Linux and they > are included as the target market :) (besides in South America you > have strong people movements) > > What I like on a poster is to give away the important characteristics > of an Enterprise Linux. There are ofcourse many, and some are more > interesting to some people than others. > > In my presentations I always talk about: > > secure, stable, predictable and reproducable > > If we look at what Enterprise Linux means, an important one is that > security updates are low-risk and available as soon as they are ready > and tested. As a result the deliverables are stable and systems > running an Enterprise Linux are predictable in behaviour. > > Thanks to the fact that the environment does not change too often, > experiences and problems are reproducable on other systems. > > So to me the poster and future promotional material should indicate > that CentOS is an Enterprise Linux, and it should include those 4 > important keywords. > > What do other people think ? I 100% approve your thoughts. But I would not add "predictable " and " reproducable " on a shirt, unless it would also trigger some funny thoughts (as in "I am a sysadmin, I am predictable, I just read your mail"). Second thought, as a heavy BOFH reader, I would be amused but I am not sure how funny would that be for our victims... ups, I meant for our users :) As a parenthesis the flower raises in me anything but the sentiment of "enterprise". It's nice for a summer beach shirt and recalls Woodstock and the flower power concept, but I would not associate it with linux in any way. manuel