LibreOffice Mascot Drama

design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2017/11/16/mascot-progress/

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What did he mean by this?

that means he is a noob and disqualified libbie on purpose because he wanted his friend to get free laptop so he removed stuff what people liked the most.

>getting mad that an independent professional organization disqualified a furry mascot because it was vote brigaded by a foreign website whose users couldn't give two shits about the software itself
>thinking a polygonic furry/weeb caricature even had a shot at being the mascot for one of the largest office software suites used by professionals and not just weebs who spend all day in their parent's basements

so you say children doodle is better?

>what is krita

Did I say that?

The fuck is this all about
Quick rundown in three or less lines

Release the numbers!

No shit sherlock

a furry artist from Sup Forums made a mascot for libreoffice's contest and users subsequently spammed the polls, causing the libreoffice people to remove it from the competition

I'd honestly pick libbie over everything because it's a unique look and it has more character then random multicolored bird/animal

There was a vote for a new LibreNigger logo. Sup Forums picked and voted for their waifu but apparently Pajeet didn't enjoy the idea that people were getting what they voted for and that his friend wasn't getting a laptop so he disqualified shit ton of stuff saying "things went out of control thanks to that racist homophobic image board" pretty much.

Well have you ever seen other "mascots", compared to them FURRY LIBBIE a mascot what represents high quality and effort of creator.

>logo
Mascot. Big distinction here. LO said they wanted a mascot, a character, with personality. Instead, they ignored the votes and picked a bunch of plagiarized abstract vector logos.

Like everything LibreOffice does, they can never match Microsoft Office even here.

youtube.com/watch?v=FwSe-uS1WI8

>people saying that anime is unprofessional
>"do you see microsoft making mascots??"
>microsoft literally created their own generic anime girl mascot and even tried to market her in the west

>Doc foundation asks people to design a mascot for LO. Makes it a competition to encourage contributors and offers a mid-tier laptop as prize.
>Gets many contributions (100+). Without giving artists any warning, changes the rules to eliminate half the entries, then puts the remaining entries up for public vote. Public overwhelmingly vote for Libbie (Tyson Tan new furry) and Libre-chan (best mascot).
>Competition organizers ignore public vote and put their pet favourites up for final vote.

>Libre-chan
I haven't seen any pictures of this one. Just Libbie and the birb.

Does anyone have a link to the list of mascots that were being considered?

They decided to ask the Internet for its serious opinion.

Why does a fucking office software need a mascot?

design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2017/11/13/mascot-iteration/

After arbitrarily eliminating all the good entries that people actually voted for, they picked these for a second round of voting, and claimed that these ones had the most votes all along.

It doesn't. They just wanted something to give it a bit of personality beyond "this is a program that lets your type words" that the community could interact with. Like Firefox's fox.

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What I don't understand is why they did it this way.

Wouldn't it have made more sense in the first place for them to get entries, pick a few of their favorites, and then have the community vote at the end?

Why would they do voting first? Do they have brain damage? (rhetorical question)

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Why was the best mascot removed?

>LibreOffice Design Team
>look at this

no wonder why they killed libbie

For now i'm for the cockatoo
Libbie would suprass the cockatoo if it manages to be less of an eye-strain. ATM it hurts to look at.

Imagine being this entitled and buttblasted.

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>imagine caring about the fruits of your labor
FTFY

>imagine thinking that an office software suite is obligated to accept your furshit as a mascot just because you spent a lot of time on it

Pretty sure he's joking with that first one. Nobody's that autistic.

> LibreOffice lets people vote for a mascot
> People votes
> The end results doesn't appeal to the basement crowd of Sup Forums and 8Ch
> They obviously want their furry waifu they can Rule34
> Tons of downvote spam happens, everything but the ugliest copyright infringement penguin gets hundreds of downvotes within hours
> People in threads on both boards proudly proclaims "I voted for the penguin cause I want LibreOffice to fail" some admitting to bot voting for the same reason
> Again, all this because their furry waifu didn't get picked
> LibreOffice picks up on this and closes voting because obviously mad basement ogres are just gonna shit all over the voting because no waifu
> The basement crowd of Sup Forums and 8Ch are now mad that they cannot shit up the contest to avenge their waifu, proceed to call the entire thing "Rigged"

Fucking hell you people are just pathetic.

>imagine strawmanning this hard
They didn't even showcase all of the different designs he had made.

The only vote-rigging done by Sup Forums was the massive amounts of votes for the godawful clipart penguin.

That's not a strawman.

>get lots of people to vote for something
>call it "rigging"
Shouldn't it just be called "massive amounts of voting"?

Professional graphic designer here.
Apart from maybe the octopus, all the remaining entries have no personality whatsoever and are so bland they completely fail as a mascot. No one would identify LibreOffice with these microsoft-clipart-class doodles.

The "furry waifu" had charisma and would have easily personified the software.

What did you think of the cockatoo?

You missed the start of it.

Parrot would've won. Everyone liked parrot. Contest organizers knew parrot would win and resorted to foul play by changing the rules immediately before voting, without informing artists.

Everything that happened after that was trolling the document foundation for their rigged competition.

thank god. It's ugly as sin.

sounds to me like they made the smart choice in the end. Public voting is retarded and democracy is a disgrace. Only the stakeholders (developers) should vote.

Also it's an office suite, the mascot should be a piece of paper if anything at all. Anything else is just cringe-worthy.

Talk about my waifu like that again, and I'll kick your ass, kid

>easily personified
Only if you like anthropomorphised chibi pedophile furfag shit.

>After the voting phase, we took the top 12 and decided to put them through an “iteration” phase on an image board
What image board? Don't tell me they actually posted on Sup Forums.

>we ended up being overloaded with spam, trolls, flame wars and denial of service attacks
kek

Libbie has a gay name, looks gay, and is probably gay.

Come over kid. I'd shove maggots from rotten meat deep down into my urethra then enucleate both your stupid furfag eyeballs and cum bugs into your eyesockets

Don't test me kid. I've been browsing Sup Forums for two weeks now.

The danbooru-like imageboard, not Sup Forums-like imageboard.

>What image board? Don't tell me they actually posted on Sup Forums.
They put up their own booru-style image board for the voting, which was promptly filled with pages and pages of porn.

Pretty great. The guy also worked on integration with existing graphic elements and monochrome print, that's a plus.
It also looked more acceptable than Libbie for corporate environments.

that's great to know.
Someone should use it when they make a better libre-office.

>professional
1024 columns

>It also looked more acceptable than Libbie for corporate environments.
We need to make anime waifus acceptable for corporate environments so I won't get weird looks when I set my waifu as my desktop wallpaper.

>Libbie
Oh, ok.

kek

it'll always be weird you disgusting weeb.

>professionals
>FOSS
Bait

wtf i love ms office now

have you been on Sup Forums or /r9k/?

I'm not a furry but libbie makes my dick go Doki doki

HELP!

user... I have bad news. You [spoiler]have a thing for cute office ladies.[/spoiler]

is there any r43 of libbie yet

r34*

>Libre office made competition for libre office mascot, they claimed some rules.
>Many people designed and sent their works followimg these rules.
>Libre office suddenly decides to change some rules because "they can" and then rejected some mascots, even good ones (parrot)
> First vote, literally most of designs are child doddles or clipart logos(some are similar to other logos)
>People started to like libbie because compared to other "masterpieces" is good.Literally no other good option so probably people voted on her most. Of course there were things what could get some part of cake (like otter).
>Libre office team again changed rules "because they can" and removed some mascots.
>Round 2 of competition
>Libre office shows 12 mascots what made to round 2 and there it begins. Literally there is no mascot who got any good opinion, 2 of them are stolen cliparts and rest are similar hummingbird logos.
>People asked LO to show round 1 vote results, LO didnt show. So that means LO just manipulates like hell. They change rules as they want, they choosen what they want, they literally didnt proof they considered people's votes. That made people mad.

And you just say "Hurr durr people are mad cus their furry lost" that only means you are ignorant cuck who is to stupid enought to understand LO dev team cheats as hell.

trash.

I'm also a graphic designer, Tyson Tan here.

I personally believe why my art didn't get picked is because his wife found his porn collection of her.

Fucking anal rape.

>parrot
the suicidal parrot?

Right in the feels box.

If they actually want us to believe the results aren't rigged then maybe they should release the numbers from the vote instead of banning people who ask for the numbers from the comments.

looks like shit desu
>always "winking"
>huge mess of polygons and contrast, eyes can't decide what to focus on when looking at it
>lot's of detail, would force bigger resolution and more artist work to stay on model, for a subpar result
I don't know why Sup Forums even likes this

>I don't know why Sup Forums even likes this

mental illness and degeneracy. Sup Forums is literally the male tumblr

should have used a recolored version of clippy instead

hmmm

no user that's trolling stop trolling

Spoken like a true closeted furfag.

Poor thing.

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It's still dumb as hell that they use just a lowercase 'a' to show the bold, underline, italic, etc settings instead of 'B', 'U', and 'I' respectively. The font on the italics button is different as well, seriously shit design choice.

I wonder how would be a Sup Forums riot.

>eyes can't decide what to focus on when looking at it
This senpai, I'm mostly mad an organisation I pondered contributing to handles things unprofessional.

>Those icons
So when are they getting an actual graphic designer to replace that terrible programmer art?

And we pretty much did.

will you give her some shelter Sup Forums?

>actual graphic designer

kek

At least know well all know your major Patel.

Yes.

THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What's all this I keep hearing about it being rigged so one of their friends win? Is there any truth to it or is it speculation?

Given the absolute state of this board, I'm sure a Sup Forums riot would involve a lot of cross dressing and dragon dildos. It would basically be a /k/ riot but with far less guns.

Better make them leave that as it is.
because if they will want to change icons they will replace all icons with stolen hummingbird logos or clipart penguins.

you know what ? fuck this, Libreoffice is a community projet right ?
This is obvious that Libbie won so we should just all consider that she's now the official mascott.

Sup Forums is full of closet furfags and weebs who would scream like fangirls at the first sight of big eyed cartoons.

First part is probably true; the second part is mostly speculation.

Is this the daily autism thread now?

this is not the best of tyson tan but it still the best proposal

>open source don't have open election
The irony.

As long as she eats the eggs

Yes, it's a open source community, a community that Sup Forums is not a part of. You can't commit changes to cURL's github, for example, and then cry when they get rejected for being shit.

Libbie shhhh! You're going to wake Mr.WTFPL. He's been drinking again...