@bojkotiMalbona
Water buffalo 🐃 isn’t good enough?

If there was a popularly agreed-on icon for #OpenSource that might be a good candidate for an #emoji

But I see four different designs for that on a quick search

You need one that people will get behind, recognize, and be excited enough about to use at a sometimes underwhelming 16 px

#Unicode are apparently moving away from the cute disembodied heads of animals like 🐧 🐦 and 🫎

Nobody has proposed wildebeest:
https://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-proposals-status.html

@bojkotiMalbona
They really don’t like and specifically forbid branding #emoji

So saying you want one for one particular open source project would probably technically doom it to failure

One guess for why they didn’t accept our #PhonographEmoji is that it was too close to the icon of the Grammy awards

@AccordionBruce I should also address this, for accuracy:

> So saying you want one for one particular open source project

GNU is not a /particular/ open source project. It represents a philosophy that encompasses a very huge collection of projects, which would ensure the wildebeest has quite heavy widespread use. By comparison, the penguin just represents the linux kernel, a single project that is a drop in the ocean compared to #GNU.