Thursday June 16, 2005
Thursday June 16, 2005 OpenSolaris Fan Buttons and Banners
Some background about the cool OpenSolaris fan buttons and banners... The code in the background is real DTrace code from OpenSolaris, and members of the OpenSolaris Pilot community came up with many of the "taglines" used - things like OpenSolaris enthusiast, for-the-enterprising, innovation-matters, love-at-first-boot, i-boot, link(2), innovate-on and access(2).
The Chinese characters on one of the buttons mean, according to Sin-Yaw Wang and some of his compatriots in the Beijing office, "a fanatically devoted (cult-like) member". Sounds passionate, huh?
My favorite is the corniest one of all - "love at first boot". And because I was born in Taipei, Taiwan - I'm partial to the Chinese characters, too.
I do like the art and I hope that a whole bunch of you will as well. (Big thanks to David Lee and Glenn Martinez for that.) I also appreciate all the work that Tiki Dare (our trademark lawyer) did to make it easy for people to get the buttons while still accomodating the various trademark rules and regs. And thanks to the Spread Firefox folks for setting such a good example with their buttons and banners.
If you're an OpenSolaris community member, thinking about becoming a community member or are just jazzed about the idea of open sourcing the kind of innovative technology that's in Solaris 10 in order to enable innovation across the industry - and you want to use one of the fan buttons and banners - just go to the OpenSolaris.org button page to get the html code snippets to put in your blog or on your website. It's that e-z to help spread the word!
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