From 067ad8205cea2543f0ce735ba32ab2446560ecf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julian Smart Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 07:40:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added list of possible slogans for wxWindows stuff git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@20663 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775 --- docs/publicity/slogans.txt | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 102 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/publicity/slogans.txt diff --git a/docs/publicity/slogans.txt b/docs/publicity/slogans.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a56e094fca --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/publicity/slogans.txt @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +wxWindows slogan ideas + +CafePress products: + +http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/products/ + + +----------- + +On mug or umbrella: + +super-gui-OS-agnostic-XP-Linux-MacOS + +(perhaps highlighted in different colours) + +wxWindows: "Practically Perfect in Every Way" + +----------- + +On tote bag: + +"Bag yourself some cool tools at wxwindows.org" + +----------- + +On sweatshirt: + +Build an app for Windows, Mac and Linux in a week? +No sweat. + + +wxwindows.org + +----------- + +Hallelujah! +The future is open source and OS-agnostic. +Tool up for it at wxwindows.org. + +----------- + +On hat: + +wxWindows +Brim-full of cool GUI tools + +----------- + +On frosted glass mug: + +just the logo + +----------- + +Suggested slogans from wx-users: + +wxWindows: The API for programmers who aren't sheep. +(Robin Dunn) + +Better printed on a shirt: + +"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, + butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, + balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, + take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, + analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a + tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. + Specialization is for insects." + [Robert A. Heinlein] + +maybe stripped down to + +"Specialization is for insects." + +The Open-Source, Cross-Platform GUI Framework + with Ten Years of Evolution Behind It + +I saw this changed to 'native UI' on the website, which is slightly more +accurate but sounds less 'catchy' imho. + +.. and templates. + +Hmm. I might buy a mug that had, say, a wxLogo and "wxWindows" (and +maybe the website URL underneath in smaller type) on one side and +"Specialization is for insects ... and templates" on the other. + +.. only if it held at leat a full half (imperial) pint, mind. Not +one of those wussy 8.5 fl.oz. jobbies. + +That'd be a nice ice-breaker when working at a new client's site - +people would be bound to stop and ask what it was all about! + +.. and how about a nice silk tie (US: necktie) with the logo on ... +Oh, I forgot, we programmers don't wear ties. + +"I can't believe it's not native" + +"Because friends don't let friends use Win32". + +(or MFC) + +