The promised logo contest from Amiga Inc

[hnl_dk]

rewritten article: From Amiga.com "We are sponsoring a contest where your logo design may be chosen for the "I Am Amiga Club" t-shirt. We are also accepting suggestions for a new name for the current "I Am Amiga" club."

Read the Press Release

Welcome and thank you for joining over a thousand of your friends and becoming founding members of the Amiga Club.  We really need to come up with a better name for the club.

You will all be receiving in the coming weeks, your Shirt and Coupons.  They will be delivered directly to your address that you gave us when you joined.

Everything will ship shortly after the logo and shirt design has been selected.
 
As announced at AmiWest we are going to be opening this up to the Amiga community. We will start this contest on Friday August 9th, and open up voting about a week later.

The Amiga club is here to bring us all together, and to jump start us towards the future.

Thank you for being here, and we look forward to getting things moving.

This really is just the beginning.

Look for news of this contest to be posted to all of the Amiga Inc websites (in particular, amiga.com) later this evening.

All the best,

Bill McEwen and the rest of the team at Amiga.

[Kent]

Personally, I like the double-x as I like to swim in my shirts.

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[Kronos]

On it's way ?

How can it be on it's way, when they haven't decided on the design yet ?

How would Nicalas Sallin put that ?

"I tell you : NO t-shirt before october !!"  :-P  :-P

[Wittgenstein]

Sorry  Kronos, I cant stand your bashing anymore. Why dont you got too ann.lu where your friends Samface, Cheesegrate and Alkis are? They are at the same level as you.

Is there any "killfile"-feature in this system? I dont want to read posts from certain authors that keep whining about every little thing like a 5-year old boy. This is really sad. :/

/W

[The_Editor]

Actually he does have a point !!

Ooer ... ME defending Kronos !!  :-o

[Kronos]

@Wittgenstein

I was just pointing out that the title of this news-item was clearly
misleading, or do you prefer positive but false "news" ?

And when I thought of that it kinda remided me of Nicolas and his
"no OS4 on the CS-PPC before September"-posts in this spring, which
even I thought as trolling back than (but still he will be right).

Can't stand a little (mean) humor ? Grow some thicker skin !

[Kent]

@Wittgenstein:

Previously when we had a threshold system before there were posts that were moderated outside of visible reading levels without modifying your personal settings to see the negative numbered posts.  Because of this, it was thought that AO was biased towards specific members when it was really the other members moderating the posts off the comments.  The best way is if you find someone you don't want to read, skip over it and go on to the next.  I hope that helps.

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[createcoms]

I would like a Medium thanx.




but i don't think the t-shirt size will b 2 much of a problem.

If worst comes to worst I'll get it professionally adjusted in size, locally of course ;-)

[Wittgenstein]

@Kent:

Yes, but the problem is that almost every positive news or thread starts with comments from people like Kronos. The problem isnt that they dont agree about the specific item, the problem is that they _NEVER_ posts anything constructive. It is always bashing, bashing and bashing. Where are the constructive discussions? Are the destructive by nature? (maybe Kronos himself can answer this). If we want to create a new community around any new Amiga or Amiga-related system we learn to be creative, constructive and positive again but still not trust Amiga blindly. I belive there is a sane path between the these two extreme points (the bashers and the worshippers).

The killfile-solution may be a little bit drastic, but I think everyone would benefit of some kind of moderation. A simple warning to people that cant behave would be more than enough and with many active moderators, the biasing would be neglectable.

Keep up the good work but dont let Amiga.org sink to the current levels of Ann.lu and Moobunny.

/W

[Kronos]

@Wittgenstein
I never post anything constructive ?

Just look up some "help-related" threads !

The problem is that a vast majority of the "positive" news are
so extremly biased and poor-worded, that they don't reflect reality.

Yes I would like a "rebirth" of the platform, but celebrating a
t-shirt-design contest, or babbling about vapor CPUs (which won't
hit anything "Amiga" in the next 2 years) won't help.

[L8-X]

wayhay!

I would rather have my A1 first though! :-D

[Wittgenstein]

@Kronos

Yes, but like I said, there is a path between! Because you dont like the worshippers you dont need to bash it and be negative. Why not be normal and sane? If some people think that a t-shirt-design contest is fun why dont you let them? Spend you energy on something better.

I dont belive in a rebirth of the platform, only a rebirth of the community but think that even that is very unlikly. However, I think it is still worth a try since there are atleast three new Amiga-like platforms comming out (AOS4, MOS and Amithlon2).

/W

[Kronos]

@Wittgenstein

Believe me, I'm allready having my fun :-D  :-D

There are basiclly 3 ways to react on all these "news":

1. Believe them all (even those that contradict eachother). Makes you a BAF.

2. Be sceptical, but still take them serious. Lead to frustation and
probrally even a heart attack. I don't need that.

3. Don't take them to serious and have a good laugh. The whole
A1-demand-gauge / lootery / club / free t-shirt / lifetime / anual
membership / design-contest" has allready provided me with lots of
fun, and I expect to have much more before anybody get his money back.

You are absolutly right about the impossiblity of a real rebirth,
and I've come to that conclusion years ago. Nowadays I see it
as just another hobby just like collecting stamps, or buildin
modells.

So if you see anothor Kronos-post that doesn't include any
technical questions/facts, you should try to view theam as a
joke. Can you laugh about all the mean things the Monty-Phytons
did back then ? If yes, you shoul also be able to do the same
about my jokes (not saying that they would have the same quality).

[Coder]

What I sure would love to see is a t-shirt with the new Amiga OS.4 logo. That would be really great.

Coder

[Kent]

@Wittgenstein

While I can agree with your comments, something you have to take into consideration is any form of criticism is still constructive regardless of how degrading it can be.  Take for instance posters like Dammy, Cheesegrate, the multiple personalities of Shawn, and several others.  Sometimes they post comments that are extremely opinionated but nevertheless there is still some form of constructive discussion involved.  Well, maybe not with those guys, but you get the idea.

In business marketing you learn that 20% of your clients will cause 80% of your grief and only a fraction of a percent will voice their opinions in the public eye.  Considering there isn't a tangible piece of hardware yet (asside from beta devs) the ones causing the grief is reduced and the amount of grief is increased.  When a tangible product is availble for purchase, these numbers will stagger to almost nothing within the first few weeks but kick up to almost 70/30 for about a week.  Shortly after, the numbers will even out to the average 80/20 rule.

Personally I don't like the title of this article, or the news content, and would have asked for quite a bit more from Amiga Inc regarding an official press release.  Nevertheless the news article was posted and I have updated it little by little correcting grammar, adding links, and other tidbits as I find new information.  There are three lines that you may or may not see... two of which are extremely radical the other is a very wide road of people waiting for something they can sink their teeth into.  I'm in the middle of the road waiting to hop on the train it seems.

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