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To see when this page will be completed, please refer to the F14 Marketing Schedule.
To see when this page will be completed, please refer to the F14 Marketing Schedule.
Ground rules
Please read this.
Suggestions which don't follow these guidelines are far less likely to be considered.
Suggestions which don't follow these guidelines are far less likely to be considered.
- The slogan should be short, 1-3 words.
- The slogan should be an active sentence, like a command:
- F8: Go higher
- F9: Make waves
- F10: Fire it up
- F11: Reign
- F12: Unite
- F13: Rock it
- F14: TBA
- The slogan should be positive, and reflect the idea that Fedora helps the user achieve something great.
- The slogan should reflect one or more of the themes from the #Artwork created by the Artwork team for this release.
- It's more important to fit the artwork theme than the four foundations shown in the #Keywords section below.
Important ideas
Themes
- Emergence
- Multiple things combined to create a new, more complex one
Artwork
F14 Artwork Theme Concepts has the final concept for F14 art. Note that the designers are not accepting new concepts; however, the current art is being further developed, and what's on that page is not yet final as of this writing.
Keywords
- The four foundations
- Features
- Friends
- Freedom
- First
New slogan ideas
| Slogan | Submitter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| "Be Synergistic" | Michele Bursi | Where not only singles parts make can realize a whole, but also other factors, normally invisible, are fundamental to realize the entire process. |
| "Frisky Field" | olo | To play with the frisky people at a frisky place |
| "Materialize." | Robn Bergeron | come together and form something. |
| "Impress" | Misha Shnurapet | Great apps, technologies and desktop features make me want to try it. |
| "Feel it" | Rob Callaghan | You think it, then express it, don't forget to "feel it"! |
| "Breaking through" | Stuart Gathman | Art resembles a shattered glass ceiling |
| "Add it up." | Robyn Bergeron | Fedora is a whole, made up of many parts. |
| "Join forces." | Paul W. Frields | People join together in Fedora to do something great. |
| "Keep Expanding" | Leo Boulton | Think F12 key on the keyboard; F13 is current; F14 is yet one more. |
| "Wrapping-up world ideas" | Arsenick | We bundled ideas from all over the world, let's try them! |
| "Breaking down barriers" | Jared Smith | We're breaking down the barriers that have held us back! |
| "Sum to infinity" | Marc Stewart | Greater than sum of its parts; Fedora-infinity link; Style as "inf14ity"? |
| "Come Play Outside" | Leo Boulton | Get outside of the (traditional OS) box with Fedora; Freedom. |
| "So Say We All" | Justin O'Brien | a unifying phrase that shows many ideas can flow into one |
| "Don't Panic" | Justin O'Brien | We have another awesome release coming and we don't want pandemonium erupting |
| "Be Different" | Edna Rheiner | In Honor of the book A Different Universe |
| "L.E.A.D. - Let everyone advances daily!" | Caius Chance | Sharing! |
| "Community Delivered, Community Supported" | David Duncan | Fedora grows from your participation in a global community. |
| "Join to Grow" | Manuel Escudero | Two sides: Emergence theory and also the idea of people joining Fedora to be better, to Grow. |
| "Solid Power!!!" | David Ramsey | Solid systems rely and require rock solid software. |
| "Weave" | John Watzke | Strands of thread weave into a greater form. |
| "Quantum shift" | David Ramsey | An illusion to going beyond in development and thought. |
| "Get Connected" | Arthur Buliva | Connection with friends, FOSS community and with the heart ofyour own machine. |
| "Unchain yourself" | Arthur Buliva | Infinite = without bounds; bounds = chains. |
| "Infinite potential" | David Ramsey | A consideration that the whole system is more than the sum of the individual components. |
| "Freedom defined" | Eugene JvR | Fedora = the ultimate in software freedom. |
| "Managed change" | Andy Cress | Change happens fast, managing it is what Fedora does for you. |
| "Empower!" | Omar CHERIF | More features, more freedom, more friends, more power... |
| "All together now" | Mel Chua | Because I can't pass up the opportunity to quote Beatles songs. |
| "Evolve." | Mel Chua | Potentially awesome visual theming options. |
| "1 + 1 > 2" | Mel Chua | Or some indication that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" - consilience, synergy. |
| "Future delivered" | David Nalley | Focus on the fact that Fedora is First with Features - and that if you want to see the future, Fedora is where you do it. |
| "Exceed power" | Pablo Hernández Borges | Keep increasing your power and go beyond. |
| "Recombine" | Pablo Hernández Borges | When DNA produces mutations, something better to achieve goals. |
| "Simply F!" | Christos Bacharakis | F is representing the 4Fs and "Fedora". Fedora is simply the First, Freedom, Features, Friends. Pointing out just "F" will make the people wonder what other than "Fedora" is the moto referred to. |
| "Mutual Dynamic Evolution" | Luigi Votta | People interact mutually (dynamism) for a better product (evolution) |
| "Overcome the noise" | Luigi Votta | In some iterations, an emergent process can tmp stop due to excessive noise. |
| "Synthesize" | Alexandros Karagiannakis | Make a synthesis, combine two or more things to produce something new, something different. |
| "Rise Up!" | Alexandros Karagiannakis | Is the way that the artwork-theme make you feel. Also emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions (wiki).. |
| "Grow Together!" | Gerard Ryan | Emphasize the community, growing and learning together, and combining to create what the fedora project is. |
| "Emerge!" | Gerard Ryan | from "Emergence." |
| "Be more" | Marc Stewart | Alludes to consciousness—being—as an emergent property. As well as standing by itself, also invites question "Be more what?", which can tie in with promotions with longer copy: "Be more adventurous, more connected, more productive [etc.] Be Fedora 14", which then highlights that Fedora is more than software; it's community, ideas, and yet more, and we're each a part making a greater whole. |
| "Blend in!" | Kostas Antonakoglou | blend (form something of two or more parts) or harmonize, or even join the community |
| "Enjoy It!" | James A. Peltier | Somewhat a play on his name Laughlin. Could be mis-read as "laughin" |
| "Reinventing Linux from the bottom down" | James A. Peltier | Another play on the name of a book he authored titled "A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down" |
| "For Scientific Minds" | James A. Peltier | or "Helping scientific minds since 1993" |
| "Fedora=Features+Freedom+Friends" | James A. Peltier | - |
| "Greater than the sum of its parts" | James A. Peltier | Fedora is made up of a kernel, a userland and a community |
| "Fedora=\sum (\frac {First}{Features+Freedom+Friends})" | James A. Peltier | Fedora is the sum of being first in Features, Freedom and Friends/Community. See http://latex.codecogs.com/png.download?Fedora=\sum&space;(\frac&space;{First}{Features+Freedom+Friends}) |
| "Community^1 + Freedom^2 + Features^3=Fedora" | James A. Peltier | Community (first) + Freedom (second) + Features (third) = Fedora in the form of a non-linear differential equation. |
| "Call one forth" | Marc Stewart | A double play on words: emerge/come forth; one-fourth/fourteenth version called Fedora" |
| "Sum of Forces" | Vincent Van der Kussen | Fedora 14, greater than the sum of forces(=all Fedora contributers) |
| "Come Together" | Cory Flick | Fedora 14, the best of Free and Open Source coming together! |
| "Emerge to freedom!" | Jesús Franco | Freedom is a continuous emerge of the 4 foundations of our community |
| "Versatile" | Rashadul Islam | Fedora is versatile in its four foundation, exploring to the excellence. |
| "Come Develop" | Amit Shah | Lots of improvements in the development platform for F14: Python, Perl 6, D, Erlang, R. Also suggests the openness by encouraging users to become contributors. |
| "YUM It's Delicious!" | Brandon Lozza | Plays on the name of an integral tool in the Fedora distribution. |