use a new avatar

[zeke]

Current avatar is a copy of probot, hue-shifted to green for a bit of distinction. 🙈

[gr2m]

I’ve tweeted about this issue: https://twitter.com/gr2m/status/958103526273531904 we were lucky to find someone to create a cool avatar for https://github.com/apps/first-timers that way :)

[ZahraTee]

I wouldn't mind trying this. Any particular ideas for it? @zeke

[zeke]

Thanks @ZahraTee. I don't have anything specific in mind.

Throwing out ideas:

• Benevolent eye of Sauron (is that even possible?)
• Squirrel in a control tower
• Squirrel holding those little aircraft-guiding orange glowlights
• Signal... satellite, radio waves, antenna
• Package: box, cargo, bow on top, etc
• Telephone
• Checkmark
• Ship

[ZahraTee]

(I didn't forget about this... just been a bit swamped. 😅)

Tried a squirrel and telephone combo! Didn't want to make it too high fidelity so you can still make it out in the PRs.

Let me know what you think or if you want any tweaks, @zeke. It's a vector so I can give you that file.

[zeke]

Nice. I love the concept! ☎️

I find It a little hard to recognize when it's small:

It might be an ambitious amount of detail for an icon that is often displayed at a pretty small size. Any ideas on how to simplify it while still preserving the concept?