The logos or mascots of many companies are very interesting. Most of them are animals, flying in the sky, running on the ground, jumping in the grass, and swimming in the water. Only you can't think of it.
Tmall’s cats, JD’s dogs, Suning’s lions, Sohu’s foxes, Tencent’s penguins, Thunder’s hummingbirds, Ctrip’s dolphins, and even some companies directly use animals as their names, such as Ant Group, Jaguar, and Butterfly. This format has a good affinity, and it is very convenient in spreading. Many big factories have "famous names", such as goose factory, cat factory, wolf factory, pig factory... GitHub's mascot OctCat Octopus, it Peripherals (figure, stickers) are very popular, and many friends will put a GitHub sticker on the computer. Back to the book, today we will look at the interesting mascots or logos in the open source zoo.
Before officially entering the open source zoo, let's take a look at the picture:
In attendance were: BSD mascot little demon Beastie holding a trident, Linux mascot Tux penguin, Java mascot Duke, Mozilla mascot Godzilla, drinking Java brand coffee in hand, gtk squares and X squares on the table , OOo (OpenOffice.org) note paper, and a pen holder pasted with GIMP. Apache feathers are inserted in the pen holder. The pattern on the tablecloth is Gnome footprints. In fact, the big teapot is also a popular object in OpenGL as hello world. On the back table is a camel from Perl, a puffer fish from openssh in the fish tank, a head of a GNU bull on the wall, and two pictures of people are James Gosling, the father of Java, and Stallman, the founder of GNU. If you can recognize these nine out of ten, you are still in the open source circle.
Next, I will officially introduce you to the little cute in the open source zoo.
Bird area
Twitter Larry
The most famous bird is Twitter. Although Twitter itself is a commercial company, there are more than 100 open source projects on Github.
This little bird is named Larry, and the graphics have undergone a change. The bird’s head has been raised higher~ (It has become stronger and bald.) The logo has undergone a change and has its own name Larry. The new logo is also very distinctive in design. It can be composed of several The circle is combined, the previous logo has feathers not in the circle.
Perl butterfly
After Perl 6 was released, there was a new version, rakudo, whose logo was a butterfly.
Bower bird
The logo comes from an Australian bird dancing courtship dance pose, and this bird is also called Bower. The Bower project itself is a web manager.
Apache Hive Elephant Nose Bee
The upper part of this bee is from the yellow plush elephant, the mascot of Apache Hadoop, and the lower part is a bee. Hive is a large-scale analysis distributed data warehouse system based on Hadoop, so the upper part is still yellow elephant.
Pidgin homing pigeon
This is a cross-platform instant messaging tool. Homing Pigeon also shows the main functions of the software very well, communication~
LLVM Flying Dragon
Domineering is here, a handsome flying dragon shape is the mascot of LLVM. Flying dragon represents power, speed and wisdom, and can also be sleek, elegant, and modular. There are other cool derivative versions of this dragon:
Animal zone
PHP elephant
Since the "PHP is the best language" mascot must also have weight, no, the founder chose the elephant as a representative. Why choose Elephant? Look at the spelling-ElePHPant, PHP is among them.
GIMP mascot
As an open source drawing software that does not lose PhotoShop, GIMP's logo is also full of creativity, like a pig, a dog, and a mouse. But neither is it. Because someone sent an email to the author asking this question, the author stated that there was no specific animal prototype when designing this image. The little guy’s name is Wilber. Is there a personal setting in Linux games? Dog set? It's not right. In short, it is a driver.
Apache Hadoop
I believe many people are deeply impressed by this cute little elephant. This mascot was inspired by the author's daughter. The children named their yellow stuffed elephant Hadoop, so the author also directly used this name. The image of an elephant is still very popular. Look, there is another one.
PostgreSQL like
Compared to MySQL, PostgreSQL, like an elephant, is more stable and serious, and it also represents a good memory. Of course, this elephant also has a name, called Slonik, which actually means "little elephant"
Flink Red Squirrel
In German, Flink means agility, and the tail of a squirrel is similar to the feather logo of the Apache Foundation.
Java Duke
In the photo above, Java's Duke and the coffee cup logo are both photogenic. Duke, the cartoon image, appeared in Star 7 as an office assistant. Its big red nose is very eye-catching, and the image of its body is like a tiger tooth, and it looks like it came out of the Star Fleet logo, very cute.
Since this image is open source, there are also many other versions, and the overall one is stable with the skin
duke vs gozilla
Duke mourns his old club
Apache Tomcat 猫
As its name suggests, it is an orange cat. It is said that the original developer was the same as us. He had read too many animal books from O`reily's family, so it was natural to think of using animals as mascots, so I used the name Tomcat. Because this animal represents a kind of guy who can take care of himself and fend for himself.
Gitlab dog
Yes, you heard that right, this is not an origami fox. It's a dog, which is the official definition of Gitlab. "Our Tanuki represents our values, working with smart animals to achieve common goals. Tanuki here means raccoon dog, or raccoon dog, or raccoon dog in Japanese, which represents luck in Japanese Buddhism. .
Speaking of so many large animals, there are also small ones here, jumping in the grass-praying mantis
Mantis
As the name suggests, the logo is a praying mantis, and its meaning is to catch bugs!
The Gitlab above is a fake fox, now let’s look at the real fox, Firefox.
Firefox browser
Its logo is the same as its name, which is a circle of foxes with a color like fire.
However, Firefox’s logo has undergone several changes before, and it feels like the tone of Twitter, from a hairy fox to a “stronger” fox
Some products even have blue foxes (yes, yes, the flame has blue parts)
Pinguino penguin
This open source project is a PIC microcontroller based on Arduino, and its logo is this kind of cross-eyed little penguin, and the little tail is also the logo of usb.
Mascot/Not Mascot of GitHub
GitHub's mascot, Octopus Cat, can be said to be very famous. This cute little guy with a cat head and an octopus body has been loved by everyone since its birth. GitHub even set up a website for everyone to create their own Octopus Cat, and GitHub Octopus Cat The surroundings are also very popular.
In fact, GitHub also has an "unmascot"-the pink unicorn unicorn
When you see it, it means that GitHub is currently down. Yes, looking at its expression, it is also very angry!
The "little pond" at the zoo
Next we came to the "Small Pond" in the zoo, there might be some big aquatic animals in it.
Eclipse Glassfish
The source code of GlassFish is derived from Sun and Oracle's software TopLink.
mySQL dolphin
The mascot of mySQL is a dolphin, and the name is proven, called "sakila"
MariaDB Sea Lion
Since being acquired by Oracle, the founder of MySQL has also begun to worry about support for MySQL, so he established a branch MariaDB. When determining the logo scheme, I chose from among aquatic mammals. Because the sea lion is fast, smart and friendly, it was chosen as this logo. But they often call him a seal when discussing. The current version has become white.
Docker whale
This mascot was not drawn randomly, but was collected for a huge sum of US$799. The pattern is a cute little whale with many containers on it.
Today's open source zoo day trip is here. Which mascots do you like best? Welcome to like and leave a message, see you next time!
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