Re: New logo?

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Connolly
Get doodling... On 18 December 2013 16:22, Paul Benedict pbened...@apache.org wrote: I think the logo should emphasis what the name maven means: someone who is an expert or connoisseur. Actually, I think the glasses on that animal brings out that imagery -- although I would like to see it

Re: New logo?

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Connolly
More emphasis on the glasses... https://twitter.com/connolly_s/status/413346357487730688/photo/1 On 18 December 2013 16:28, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote: Get doodling... On 18 December 2013 16:22, Paul Benedict pbened...@apache.org wrote: I think the logo

Re: New logo?

2013-12-18 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
What's the 75px requirement ? Is it an apache requirement that the logo must be sinfully ugly ? Kristian 2013/12/18 Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com More emphasis on the glasses... https://twitter.com/connolly_s/status/413346357487730688/photo/1 On 18 December 2013

Re: New logo?

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Connolly
my helmet drawing is not that great. https://twitter.com/connolly_s/status/413347741310283776/photo/1 Though I do have to agree with Jason... a beaver and a helmet in the same photo... it's not hard to get double entendres from putting that pair together On 18 December 2013 16:25, Baptiste

Re: New logo?

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Connolly
Well we need something that looks good in the top bar of the site... anything under 100px is fine... though when you grow vertically beyond 75px is starts to take too much room. On 18 December 2013 16:39, Kristian Rosenvold kristian.rosenv...@gmail.comwrote: What's the 75px requirement ? Is it

Re: New logo?

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Connolly
Basically we need the logo to be recognisable when shrunk to fit into a 64-85px (100px max) high box. It doesn't have to look its best, and the shrunk form could be a sub-image... for example the Jenkins logo is quite large, but where a smaller logo is needed Mr Jenkins just gets decapitated...

Re: New logo?

2013-12-18 Thread Benson Margulies
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote: For Benson... and just to put another one in the hat... http://people.apache.org/~stephenc/maven-logo-contest/maven-4.png http://people.apache.org/~stephenc/maven-logo-contest/maven-4-big.png On 18

Re: New logo?

2013-12-18 Thread Baptiste Mathus
For those like me who were wondering what Jason was speaking about, I guess this is it: http://www.billcasselman.com/new_columns_2010/beaver_as_dirty_word.htm 2013/12/18 Jason van Zyl ja...@tesla.io On Dec 18, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Personally, I

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
with... it is a Worst option that should spur a better version On 17 December 2013 00:38, Jeff Jensen jeffjen...@upstairstechnology.comwrote: Looks good. I like the left nav better tho! I don't think the Maven logo in the upper right corner looks bad/out of place, however, a new logo is fun

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Tamás Cservenák
logo in the upper right corner looks bad/out of place, however, a new logo is fun to have! On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote: https://www.dropbox.com/s/w5eblhl4q0fzc6p/Screen%20Shot%202013-12-16%20at%2022.32.03.png

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
option that should spur a better version On 17 December 2013 00:38, Jeff Jensen jeffjen...@upstairstechnology.com wrote: Looks good. I like the left nav better tho! I don't think the Maven logo in the upper right corner looks bad/out of place, however, a new logo is fun to have

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
, a new logo is fun to have! On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote: https://www.dropbox.com/s/w5eblhl4q0fzc6p/Screen%20Shot%202013-12-16%20at%2022.32.03.png On 17 December 2013 00:16, Stephen Connolly

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
: Looks good. I like the left nav better tho! I don't think the Maven logo in the upper right corner looks bad/out of place, however, a new logo is fun to have! On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
December 2013 00:38, Jeff Jensen jeffjen...@upstairstechnology.com wrote: Looks good. I like the left nav better tho! I don't think the Maven logo in the upper right corner looks bad/out of place, however, a new logo is fun to have! On Mon, Dec 16, 2013

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
. I like the left nav better tho! I don't think the Maven logo in the upper right corner looks bad/out of place, however, a new logo is fun to have! On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Paul Benedict
On 17 December 2013 00:38, Jeff Jensen jeffjen...@upstairstechnology.com wrote: Looks good. I like the left nav better tho! I don't think the Maven logo in the upper right corner looks bad/out of place, however, a new logo is fun to have

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
the Maven logo in the upper right corner looks bad/out of place, however, a new logo is fun to have! On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote: https

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Tamás Cservenák
wrote: Looks good. I like the left nav better tho! I don't think the Maven logo in the upper right corner looks bad/out of place, however, a new logo is fun to have! On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Stephen Connolly

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
, Jeff Jensen jeffjen...@upstairstechnology.com wrote: Looks good. I like the left nav better tho! I don't think the Maven logo in the upper right corner looks bad/out of place, however, a new logo is fun to have

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
needs the intro to point people to it. Also want to integrate a feedback form so users can tell us what works and doesn't. A new logo will help me make the whole thing gel... So get logoing On Tuesday, 17 December 2013, Lennart Jörelid wrote: Actually, I would claim that the problem is not one

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Lennart Jörelid
Actually, I would claim that the problem is not one of whitespace, but rather one of usability. Readability (in regards to typography) and clarity (in terms of knowing where you are on the site and what your text context is) are difficult tasks to master in general - but I think that the Fluido

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Barrie Treloar
On 18 December 2013 07:27, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote: I am going to integrate linked-in's hopscotch to give people a tour of the Nice! Good to find these things. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Robert Scholte
Even though the fluido skin looks great, it also has a lot of whitespace. The current mainpage is already quite long, with fluido it'll only get longer. We might need to restructure the whole page. For instance, complements for the page design of Gradle[1], I have my doubts about buildr[2]

Re: New logo?

2013-12-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
On Tuesday, 17 December 2013, Barrie Treloar wrote: On 18 December 2013 07:27, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: I am going to integrate linked-in's hopscotch to give people a tour of the Nice! Good to find these things. I'd tried intro.js but

New logo?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Connolly
I have been playing with reworking our front page...[image: Inline images 1] I think the fluido skin is a big improvement, I would like to switch to that... Only problem I see is that our current logo(s) are very tied to the old look and feel... So do we want to see about launching a logo

Re: New logo?

2013-12-16 Thread Olivier Lamy
Maybe only me but I cannot see the image :-) On 17 December 2013 09:35, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote: I have been playing with reworking our front page...[image: Inline images 1] I think the fluido skin is a big improvement, I would like to switch to that...

Re: New logo?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Connolly
bollix gmail On 17 December 2013 00:11, Olivier Lamy ol...@apache.org wrote: Maybe only me but I cannot see the image :-) On 17 December 2013 09:35, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote: I have been playing with reworking our front page...[image: Inline images 1]

Re: New logo?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Connolly
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w5eblhl4q0fzc6p/Screen%20Shot%202013-12-16%20at%2022.32.03.png On 17 December 2013 00:16, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote: bollix gmail On 17 December 2013 00:11, Olivier Lamy ol...@apache.org wrote: Maybe only me but I cannot see the

Re: New logo?

2013-12-16 Thread Jeff Jensen
Looks good. I like the left nav better tho! I don't think the Maven logo in the upper right corner looks bad/out of place, however, a new logo is fun to have! On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote: https://www.dropbox.com/s/w5eblhl4q0fzc6p

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