Missing Cosmogotchi

So, the sabdfl doesn’t have a hackergotchi on Planet Ubuntu. This is a travesty, and we’re going to need the community’s might to fix it. Indeed, we should create a collection of sabdfl hackergotchis for every occasion. So, find a good shot of Mark - there are plenty around - make it into a sweet, sweet hackergotchi (like the ones in the Planet GNOME hackergotchi collection), and post your cosmogotchis in the comments of this post.

(This is the first time I’ve turned on comments for a post, so this is a bit of a trial run for whether I turn them on indefinitely…)

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This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on February 21, 2006 at 22:16, filed under Uncategorized and tagged ubuntu. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

22 Comments

  1. Ploum
    Posted February 21, 2006 at 23:01 | Permalink

    First try :

    http://ploum.fritalk.com/cosmogotchi.png

  2. Chris Cunningham
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 00:20 | Permalink

    This one is obviously the best candidate. (There’s another really good astronaut one which unfortunately has the top inch of his head cropped off.)

    - Chris

  3. jaybe
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 02:45 | Permalink

    I used this photo: http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2005/06/028-guadec/mark_shuttleworth.png and tried to create a hackergotchi:
    http://www.geocities.com/jaybe66n/mark_shuttleworth_hackergotchi.jpg

  4. simon
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 02:49 | Permalink

    what about

    http://n.ethz.ch/student/hofersi/downloads/shuttleworth.png

  5. Phil
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 03:22 | Permalink

    Must be nice to be famous; you can get other people to make hackergotchis for you…

    (Says the guy who made a Paul Graham hackergotchi and a DHH hackergotchi yesterday.)

  6. jdub
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 03:27 | Permalink

    People do this for random GNOME hackers all the time. :-)

  7. voxvirus
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 03:27 | Permalink

    http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/6297/mshg9go.png

    another 5min-made-hackergotchi by yours truly, enjoy :)

  8. voxvirus
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 03:32 | Permalink

    by the way, i forgot to mention one thing, the picture came from here » http://www.africaninspace.com/home/gallery/bolshoi/62.shtml

    it might help the competition gotcherize a few more pictures =)

  9. Ploum
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 06:22 | Permalink

    Second try :

    http://ploum.fritalk.com/cosmogotchi2.png

    Both are quick and dirty gimping. If you like one of them, I can try to make it cleaner and better.

  10. Ploum
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 06:32 | Permalink

    http://ploum.fritalk.com/cosmogotchi1b.png

    Just an higher quality version

  11. Mary
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 07:59 | Permalink

    I’m just here to heckle, not to contribute: I like Ploum’s ‘gotchi, two comments above.

  12. senectus
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 11:22 | Permalink

    Oh yes.. this one gets my vote:
    http://ploum.fritalk.com/cosmogotchi.png

  13. Ploum
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 11:55 | Permalink

    Waha !

    I must post this screenshot. It’s where the randmoness of nautilus putted my hackergotchis on my desktop :
    http://ploum.fritalk.com/Screenshot.png

    I feel this so poetic…

  14. Jeremiah
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 12:58 | Permalink

    http://www.sonicpling.net/misc/mark_shuttleworth.png

  15. MotherLUG
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 13:56 | Permalink

    This is the most recent photo I could find. It was taken at LCA06.
    Not bad for my first hackergotchi.

    http://karin.k-sit.com/images/photos/projects/MS1.png

  16. MotherLUG
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 14:26 | Permalink

    Second attempt and a correction. The first one was not from LCA06, but this one definately is.

    http://karin.k-sit.com/images/photos/projects/MS7.png

  17. jsgotangco
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 17:59 | Permalink

    I really like cosmogotchi1b.png, although it reminds me always that i might not go to space in my lifetime with my current work :)

  18. John Leach
    Posted February 23, 2006 at 00:18 | Permalink

    How about the Evil Shuttleworth from this week’s Everybody Loves Eric Raymond strip cancomical-lynchpad

  19. lgespee
    Posted February 23, 2006 at 05:17 | Permalink

    I made two possible hackergotchies for Mark.
    They can be found here:
    http://lnet.nl/hackergotchi/

    Cheers.

  20. DeanG
    Posted February 23, 2006 at 15:37 | Permalink

    Folks from space deserve preferential treatment for an upside down cosmogotchi. :D

  21. Ploum
    Posted February 24, 2006 at 06:20 | Permalink

    DeanG : you mean like this :

    http://ploum.fritalk.com/cosmo_mark.png

    (I just make the gotchi again, cleaner : http://ploum.fritalk.com/cosmogotchi1c.png )

  22. Dinda
    Posted February 24, 2006 at 15:13 | Permalink

    One, okay two for the girls ;)

    http://www.ubuntugirl.com/images/marktux200.gif

    and upside down. . .

    http://www.ubuntugirl.com/images/marktux_upside.gif

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  1. By FLOSS Dhamma » Blog Archive » Is GPL the right license for a font? on February 21, 2006 at 18:07

    .open the jpg….eeeks! How the hell am I supposed to “carve out” using the touchpad! Any one’s done that before? (btw, the current head was “amputed” by Sayamindu. Which means that either I am that famous or Sayamindu’s a nice guy.)

  2. By Where is Ploum ? on February 23, 2006 at 21:21

    Notes [1] No, the book is definitively not a contribution as it doesn’t speak about swallows and coconuts [2] see alsothe whole contest So, I say hello to PUC. Mark, can you say hello to your new head ? [IMG Mark says hello !] Thank you Mark. And now for something completely different : If you are coming to FOSDEM this saturday, the