The origin of Sara
Thursday, November 23, 2017 - 23:18
Yeah, as you see in the title, I'm wondering where Sara came from. I know Mandi Paugh created the sprite, but there are some questions:
1. She was imagined solely for this site or was already conceptualized beforehand?
2. Conceptualized/designed by Mandi or Bart?
3. Mandi sprited her for free (as favor) or bart paid her beforehand? (one source on Tumblr says she was commissioned from Mandi, but Bart says Mandi "generously donated" her which implies free)
Thanks!
I am interested in this too.
So, anyone knows this? @bart ?
Think she was just a sprite that got submitted early in the sites history. Users liked her so much they made her the site mascot.
Don't know the answer to the 2 OP questions, but I'm pretty confident she was not just an early submission-made-mascot. Sara was official mascot before she was even submitted, actually. She may have existed before any relationship to OGA or she may have been specifically created for OGA, but bart explicitly requested a mascot from Mandi, after which Mandi allowed her to be licensed under CC-BY and GPL (free as in freedom, but not necessarily free as in beer for bart.)
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