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Hmm...

According to the german wikipedia, one day several students of the École Centrale Paris, who were also members of a networking club, came home drunk and had brought a traffic cone. Later, the VideoLAN projekt was created by members of that club, and when they were looking for a logo, they chose the traffic cone, obviously as a reminiscence.

Whether that story is true or not, I like it.

Hmm...

According to the german wikipedia, one day several students of the École Centrale Paris, who were also members of a networking club, came home drunk and had brought a traffic cone. Later, the VideoLAN projekt was created by members of that club, and when they were looking for a logo, they chose the traffic cone, obviously as a reminiscence.

Whether that story is true or not, I like it.

It's closer to the truth... But far away, too...

Because the developers (workers) are located in Cone, France. (As are Handbrake's.)

And an ice-cream cone would have implied they were always kicked back eating dessert, whereas a
traffic cone implies they are always doing some construction.

@JB: I feel the VLC team came up with the "traffic cone" accounting to 2 wants

1. Symbolize something that streams and regulates Internet traffic (for Audio/Video) well (That's why the Traffic cone which helps regulate the vehicle traffic).
2. A symbol that looks like it could be plugged into our ears (That's why the cone shape) --> (Added this one after your previous hint of "something to do with the cone shape" )

Please let me know if I am correct

Symbols looks like traffic cone and nothing more

All great theories. Never really even thought about it I guess lol

Try again

One day the people from via association, part of a free open source project came back drunk with a traffic cone. Later, when the project is done, they used the cone as its logo. And that project is so called VLC

My guess is that they used the cone as a funnel for their drinking 'events' and thus it had star status among his peers.

hmm.. i might believe that drunk story.. that never gets old on anything. if i would build my empire and it was developed during my drunk days holding a piece of cone - i will stick to that icon - as it represents my hardships during the time i was developing the uber kickass proggy.