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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The Owl - My Idea for the Ada mascot
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 19:21:12 +0200
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On 14-11-14 07:31 , David Botton wrote:
>> purpose of an "Ada mascot",
> 
> Marketing. Advertising. PR. Change. Advocacy. New Markets. New Image.

For an Ada emblem, I suggest a twig of a wine, with some green wine
leaves and a bunch of grapes.

Connections to Ada:
- Green
- Produces good, enjoyable things (= grapes and wine)
- Long-lived, portable, international
- Originates from embedded systems (= roots)
- Cluster of grapes = parallel tasks
- Developed (= cultured and selected) with care and intelligence
- Strong quality control and verification
- The Beaujolais Connection
- Runs on sunlight, as many Ada programs do.

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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