<div dir="ltr"><div>Personally, I would want to quantify how much the "Linux Australia" brand is worth before I made any decision.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If it was found to be valuable, I would think about other options.</div><div><br></div><div>For example, when you think of Amazon do you think of an online bookshop, cloud compute or building tablets?</div><div><br></div><div>In Korea, Samsung builds apartments and operates funeral homes and uses the Samsung name prominently:</div><div><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/17/technology/samsung-south-korea-daily-life/index.html">http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/17/technology/samsung-south-korea-daily-life/index.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I suggest that the place to start is to understand how much the brand is worth as a pre-requisite.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Simon Lyall via linux-aus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au" target="_blank">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
So I'm thinking. What would a a corporate branding specialist do? Would they play around with the words Open, Linux, Source, Tech, etc until they found something vaguely okay?<br>
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No, they would do this:<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBtspm8j8M" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=2YBtspm8j8M</a><br>
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" Linux Australia is now... Linaus "<br>
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and don't forget to cycle "Lin" though "Link" , "Align" , "Linux" and a few other cool words in the video. Just to remind people it can stand for anything.<br>
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BTW: My previous employer changed their name, I thought they did a good job with "Serenova".<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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