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ropensci / babette

babette is an R package to work with BEAST2
https://docs.ropensci.org/babette
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Change babette logo #11

Closed richelbilderbeek closed 6 years ago

richelbilderbeek commented 6 years ago

From Huw Ogilvie, one of the article reviewers:

Continuing the grand tradition of picking alliterative puns for BEAST program names, the authors have gone with "babette". I guess that this is in reference to one of the maids that cleans up after The Beast in the famous fairy tale. I think the name is logical and clever. However in the older Disney animated versions of the fairy tale the maid is a "sexy maid" stereotype, and the authors seem to have directly copied the babette logo from the animation. The authors should reconsider this, not only because of the notorious litigousness of Disney lawyers, but also because the optics of using a "sexy maid" logo for scientific software is bad, especially in 2018, especially from two male authors. Sorry if this point gets interpreted as not having a sense of humor, but I think it should be addressed.

Will change logo, sent out email to research group for contributions.

richelbilderbeek commented 6 years ago

Done! Thanks to Jose Scholte for creating it