Re: Symbol ideas for the logo?

[Emmanuel Lecharny]

Stefan Zoerner a écrit :

Hi all,
a have question from a designer I asked some weeks ago, whether she is 
interested to participate in ourlogo contest.

She asked for a symbol which would be suitable for the software. A 
feather, although nice, is a little bit overused, she meant. Btw. she 
basically has no idea, what an LDAP/directory server is.

One of my ideas was to use a woman/girl with an apple/snake to 
resemble the old "Eve" name of the software, but this would be for 
insiders only and the symbol would not have any conjunction with our 
software.

The designer has already presented me a proposal which uses a highly 
simplified computer chip as a symbol. Despite the fact that our 
software has not that much to do with chips, the logo works perfectly 
to underline our embeddable aspect.

Does anybody have a good idea which symbol would best work for our 
software, or which aspect (like embeddable) would be interesting to 
cite with the logo?

Well, when I asked for a logo for my presentation in Dublin (ApacheCon 
EU), a friend of mine asked a friend of him (foaf ...) who created a 
really cool logo - attached -.

I like the idea of a tree, and you may connect it to the Tree of 
Knowledge - yo know, the apple,, tyhe snake, the Original sin, whatever 
...- if you need to add some reference to Eve. But when he designed the 
tree, it was just because I presented Ldap as a way to structure data as 
a tree of entrees - ooops entries - :)

My 2cts
Emmanuel