{"id":6601,"date":"2008-03-03T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2008\/03\/03\/mascot-naming-contest\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:16:10","slug":"mascot-naming-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/mascot-naming-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Mascot Naming Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you see the totally cool new ads for Windows server 2008 at <a title=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserver2008\/en\/us\/serverunleashed\/default.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserver2008\/en\/us\/serverunleashed\/default.html\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserver2008\/en\/us\/serverunleashed\/default.html<\/a> ?<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the<strong> best things I think I&#8217;ve ever seen our Marketing dept ever developed<\/strong> and they feature this <strong>awesome<\/strong> looking robot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/TNBlogsFS\/BlogFileStorage\/blogs_msdn\/powershell\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MascotNamingContest_FE31\/image_2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"445\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/TNBlogsFS\/BlogFileStorage\/blogs_msdn\/powershell\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MascotNamingContest_FE31\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"734\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>3 cheers to the superstars in Microsoft Marketing!<\/p>\n<p>I just LOVE this guy!&nbsp; I&#8217;ve decided to declare him the informal PowerShell mascot.&nbsp; Stick a flag on him &#8211; he&#8217;s ours.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>After all, what conveys automation better than a robot?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The problem is that I can&#8217;t think of a good name for him.&nbsp; That&#8217;s where you come in.&nbsp; What should we name him?&nbsp; (I&#8217;m open to being convinced that it is a her but if you watch the way this thing moves, I think you&#8217;ll agree that it is a guy).<\/p>\n<p>There is no prize besides fame and our eternal goodwill but it is a worthy thing to contribute to.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] <br \/>Windows Management Partner Architect <br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a> <br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you see the totally cool new ads for Windows server 2008 at http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserver2008\/en\/us\/serverunleashed\/default.html ? 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I just LOVE this guy!&nbsp; I&#8217;ve decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}