[Opensim-users] Neutral Avatar - Hippo?

[InuYasha Meiji]

You could make it an Ostrich.  They Run fast just like OpenSim, and when 
people shorten it to OS grid people will think it stands for Ostrich. 
lol.  But do we really want to run around as Newbie Ostriches.  But it 
had to be said.


Karen Palen wrote:
> I agree that we should have a better mascot, but I am at a loss (for 
> once) to suggest anything!
>
> A falcon? Flying high and free? Problems ...
>
> Karen
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:03 PM, James Stallings II 
> <james.stallings at gmail.com <mailto:james.stallings at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     If it were up to me, we'd find something more appealing than a
>     hippo for the mascot. The inheritance of anything from Second Life
>     to me is pretty distasteful.
>
>     Not likely to be a popular opinion so I don't expect much to come
>     of it, but my 0.02$US anyway.
>
>     (I mean seriously, a fat, sluggish river-dwelling herbivore that
>     is so close to the next level down on the food chain that the carp
>     literally follow it around to eat as it defecates -- why was that
>     ever a mascot for anything in the first place?)
>
>
>     On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:09 PM, <diva at metaverseink.com
>     <mailto:diva at metaverseink.com>> wrote:
>
>         Yes, same here.
>         But since we are talking about the famous Hippos that
>         everybody knows and uses, I took this opportunity to try to
>         find out if anyone here knows anything about their origin. Are
>         these nebadon's?
>
>
>         Marck wrote:
>
>             Well, I found not any license information for the Baby and
>             Mother Hippo that I used as a base. In fact, I got them
>             from your mega-region "Diva's Office"; but I have seen
>             them with full permissions and free to copy at various
>             places in OSgrid, too. I assumed that they are free to
>             use. As long as there are no restrictions on those hippos,
>             the hippo avatar as a derivative work is in the public domain.
>
>             diva at metaverseink.com <mailto:diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:
>
>                 Super cute!
>                 Is this really public domain?
>
>                 Ben Faust wrote:
>
>                     Great job! I'm going to use it for our Neutral
>                     avatar. Thanks!
>
>                     On 8/26/2010 11:12 AM, Marck wrote:
>
>                         Hello Ai,
>
>                         Your idea of using a hippo as a starter avatar
>                         is great. I took the
>                         freely available Baby Hippo and made an avatar
>                         from it. See
>                         http://www.osgrid.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2705
>                         <http://www.osgrid.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2705>.
>
>                         Does this meet your notion for such an avatar?
>
>                         Marck
>
>                         Ai Austin wrote:
>
>                             Anyone feel up to creating a starter
>                             avatar that looks like a hippo
>                             that
>                             can be distributed as an IAR? It would be
>                             a great addition to allow a
>                             male, female and "neutral" avatar as
>                             starters and follow the
>                             OpenSimulator logo style with its 3
>                             "users" on it.
>
>                             http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OpenSim_Graphics
>
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