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So I've been completely infuriated to see what that libreoffice's mascot contest turned out to be. The absolute incompetence from the side of organizers has caught me by surprise (and continues to do so). I believe everyone can agree that TysonTan's submission had all the rights to win or at least to currently be among the finalists. The audacity of organizers to dismiss a whole library of carefully crafted Libbie illustrations is insane. I really sympathize with TysonTan in this turn of events. No work of this amount and quality should go overlooked by the ones whom it was made for. At least the actual people know that he indeed made the best work out there and it's the contest's organizers are the only thing that leaves a lot to be desired.

Libbie, Kiki and Konqi are characters by

TysonTan.

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Published: 7 years ago

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fibs

7 years ago

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Tyson has released Libbie to the public domain (but not the others as far as I know!)

https://twitter.com/TysonTanX/status/930694013388247040

I'm gonna draw her later and I hope everybody else takes part too. Let's show her the love Libre won't!

goshaag

7 years ago

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@ fibs

I support this

Raikoo

7 years ago

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Tyson should've won that.. The amount of time and effort put in to craft what, in my opinion, is a flawless mascot is more than worth first place. Needless to say if I were ever in the position to make a company and needed a mascot Tyson would be the first artist I'd go to.

goshaag

7 years ago

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@ Raikoo

True. What were they thinking...

fibs

7 years ago

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@ Raikoo

Libbie's literally too good.

A lot of program mascots are intentionally very bland and generic, such as Linux's penguin. In addition, they're almost never particularly anthropomorphic. Libbie's a fully-fleshed character with a clear and charming personality, making her closer to a -tan than an official mascot; she might also be "too furry" for the executives to be comfortable.

But the competition notes imply that they want a shitty mascot:

"	This is just something fun for our community to use, for instance on T-shirts at events, so it doesn’t have to be ultra slick and professional

... and more clearly that they don't want the mascot to actually resemble the product (i.e. they want a shitty mascot):

"	Many of them were excellent, but we had to remove quite a few from the following voting round for various reasons (such as [...] use of the official LibreOffice document logo)

Libbie kind of toes the edge on "using the logo" per se - a few of her images show her holding up what looks like a specific program's logo - but the bottom line is that Libbie is a good design submitted to a bad design contest.

And yes, I agree that this is so fucking stupid, but you know what?

It's good that she didn't win. She'll find a much, much better place than what Libre would probably have done with her, which is use her for a few months and then forget she ever existed, leaving her in copyright limbo.