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ORIGIN OF THE TERM This term originated when the fashion of blog aggregators hit the Hacker community, hence the "hacker" part. launched Planet GNOME {Link without Title} , a blog aggregator of GNOME programmmers and contributors. Luke Stroven suggested that Jeff use the images created by Steiner with posts by those writers. Stroven then created a bunch of images that depicted the heads of people on Planet GNOME. Waugh coined the term hackergotchi after seeing the collection of heads Stroven created. The "-gotchi" part seems to be a reference to the term Tamagotchi . TYPES OF HACKERGOTCHI Hackergotchis are usually the Head Shots of the posting author; however, other emblems, images or symbols representative of the blog owner are often used as well. A good gallery of them can be appreciated here . Hackergotchi with drop shadow The most commonly used form of a hackergotchi is a head shot of the author with a Drop Shadow behind it. Such images are typically made with The GIMP given it is the graphical editing package of choice in the Open Source Software community. The drop shadow was originally introduced to produce greater visual Contrast and to allow it to have a larger appearance when the image was placed on a white background. This was done to further the end goal of making it easier for a reader to differentiate between feeds from different authors. |
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