Project Description
Lesser on the coding side but to follow up on a past fun project: the Party Geeko 
insists since Hackweek 18 and is in good company with the other party guests.
Now I'll make an attempt to teach the Linux Tux 
how to party as well and join parrot, geeko and the rest of the gang.
Hackweek goals
- teach Tux to party by converting the static Tux image into an emoji-like animated gif
- add the typical Party Parrot colors
- artifacts should go into GitHub and finally contributed upstream
Resources
- Gimp and friends
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_(mascot) (one of the pics from there)
- https://github.com/rsimai/hackweek23 (my repo)
- https://github.com/jmhobbs/cultofthepartyparrot.com (the Parrot's upstream repo)
This project is part of:
Hack Week 23
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about 1 year ago by rsimai | Reply
and it's merged, see the guest section on the parrot's page. I guess I'll close this project.
Reply to rsimai
I used Gimp to modify the original Tux, iWarp is a cool feature. Have my Party Tux 
ready :-)
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