joaoevangelista
Hey guys!
So to keep it simple and short
Does Elixir has a mascot? I know that the logo is pending trademark so people can’t use it right now (correct me if I’m wrong). So I thought about having a mascot, also as another way to warm the community, such as Go has Gopher, with a permissive license so people could do some customizations in it and use to promote the language without actually using it’s logo.
We could have some sort of alchemist. Just a discussion in what you guys think of having one.
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rafaelnacle
I was thinking about this too! I think IT HAS to do something related with alchemy. It just makes sense! I know a mascot means almost nothing to the language itself, but idk, it adds personality! Since it is a functional language, an owl (an alchemist own) would maybe be something nice? An owl makes no noise when flying, like elixir almost never crashes.
Owls have that “magic” feeling, and an alchemist purple owl holding a vial or something would be really cool! I wanted to generate an AI to have an idea, but I truly believe a human should make this haha. I found those on Pinterest! Maybe like a living object like a vial like this tea pot but in another form:
chasers
A couple previous mascot threads:
Now that MidJourney is a thing should we revive this discussion?
I’ll start:
yordisprieto
If people want to add your own mascots, I created the following repo to share assets around the topic: https://github.com/straw-hat-team/beam-mascots
yordisprieto
Suppose to be, t-shirt color comes from Erlang, while Elixir part is in the bottle, and keeping Joe’s smile around
I tried to ask for something that was easy to draw, but this is the best we got.
Make it better, make yours, share back :peepolove:
hudsonbay
Wow, is that Joe Armstrong?
yordisprieto
Contributing to spread the love, I can share the
.aior.epsfile you wantyumm
maybe the character in this comic: http://leftoversalad.com/c/015_programmingpeople/. Although it seems like a bit much for a language mascot. Just to be clear I mean the character for elixir.
Phillipp
I really love the idea of a mascot. As an ex php developer, I have so many “elephpants” at home. I think I have 12 but there are many many more and some of them are really rare and hard or impossible to get. See https://afieldguidetoelephpants.net/
That said, if there is a mascot for Elixir (I love Drop), I want it to be a plush toy!
ryanwinchester
A silly mascot, entirely
I think a cool logo is enough, and we have the drop.
joaoevangelista
The thing that I liked about Drop is that we can customize it, so we could make a “Wizard Drop” or one depending the situation. It’s more generic but still remember elixir