--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, "Miroslav Penchev" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> One week after start of voting for Firebird slogan there are about
> 10 to 15 votes per theme. Is that all votes that can be collected?
> When there was a long discussion about slogan I get impression that
> there are more peoples involved on thinking for slogan.

Yes, there are. During the discussion, lots of ideas popped up, but
no-one seemed to get more than at best a couple of people exited. We
all use Firebird differently, and it isn't one common thing that has
attracted us to our database. We all focus on various aspects, so how
could we possibly embrace one common slogan? Well, unless we choose
something like "catching the rainbow" - a slogan that encompasses the
beauty we all find in Firebird, without limiting itself to any one
particular aspect (I like that, but we certainly have many choices
already).

I'm amongst those that haven't voted, and I doubt I will. When few
people vote amongst so many candidates that simply eliminates three
kinds of slogans: the extremely bad ones, the thoughtful ones and a
few that more or less accidentally got few votes (the latter two may
contain very good candidates).

> So, my question is what date we should fix as 'closing date' for
> first stage of voting? After one more week? Two weeks?

I'd suggest use the current vote as a little indication, get together
a group of people for identifying good candidates (amongst the
suggested ones and new candidates as well) and then make a new vote
with fewer candidates partly through the Internet and partly at the
"Fulda conference in Prague" ;o)

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