IANAD but why not put it into the menu banner on the left?

IMHO, this will be a much more visually appealing layout.

Thanks,
Roman.

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 6:14 PM, William Markito <wmark...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> Thanks Niall for the feedback.
>
> Would something like this be good enough ?  http://imgur.com/8nGYiKE
>
> It would be only in the index/home page and we would keep the incubator
> reference in the footer for other pages.
>
> This would be a very simple change without breaking the overall layout...
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Greg Chase <g...@gregchase.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 10:41 AM, William Markito <wmark...@pivotal.io>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > We had a similar feedback from Niall during the first rollout of the
>> > > website and then we increased the font-size of the disclaimer and the
>> > size
>> > > of the incubator logo.
>> > >
>> > > I'd agree with Dave and we should definitely improve but with a more
>> > proper
>> > > specifics to nail it.
>> >
>> >
>> > The reviewer admits there is not a consensus on what a more specific
>> > guideline should be.  Personally I think our rendering should be
>> sufficient
>> > in absence of that consensus.  To do more things would require pretty
>> > significant changes to our web design concept.
>> >
>>
>> I think its worth thinking about this from a TLP rather than incubator
>> perspective. Apache identity is symbolized by the feather and IMO the
>> projects that best embrace Apache and its branding do one of two things.
>> They either 1) incorporate the feather in their project logo or 2) they
>> display the Apache logo prominently at the top on their website. There are
>> alot of examples of projects that haven't done either of these things and
>> TBH I don't understand why they seem to "hide" their Apache identity. As
>> geode's logo doesn't incorporate the logo, then I would love to see Geode
>> going down the second route. Below are two lists of projects that have gone
>> this route (the first using the current Apache feather, the second using
>> older designs).
>>
>> Going back to the incubator branding issue, I think Geode should
>> incorporate the Incubator logo in its banner at the top of the page, with
>> the aim of replacing it with one of the Apache feather logos when it
>> graduates to a TLP.
>>
>> Niall
>>
>> Projects using latest Feather logos:
>>     http://archiva.apache.org/index.cgi
>>     http://arrow.apache.org/
>>     http://cayenne.apache.org/
>>     http://chemistry.apache.org/
>>     http://jmeter.apache.org/
>>     http://jspwiki.apache.org/
>>     http://olingo.apache.org/
>>     http://oltu.apache.org/
>>     http://oozie.apache.org/
>>     http://openmeetings.apache.org/
>>     http://poi.apache.org/
>>     http://reef.apache.org/
>>     http://serf.apache.org/
>>     http://servicemix.apache.org/
>>     http://sling.apache.org/
>>     http://subversion.apache.org/
>>     http://tomcat.apache.org/
>>     http://zest.apache.org/
>>
>> Projects using older Feather logos:
>>     http://activemq.apache.org/
>>     http://any23.apache.org/
>>     http://aries.apache.org/
>>     http://bigtop.apache.org/
>>     http://camel.apache.org/
>>     http://cocoon.apache.org/
>>     http://creadur.apache.org/
>>     http://crunch.apache.org/
>>     http://curator.apache.org/
>>     http://cxf.apache.org/
>>     http://empire-db.apache.org/
>>     http://falcon.apache.org/
>>     http://felix.apache.org/
>>     http://flex.apache.org/
>>     http://flume.apache.org/
>>     http://helix.apache.org/
>>     http://james.apache.org/
>>     http://lens.apache.org/
>>     http://logging.apache.org/
>>     http://myfaces.apache.org/
>>     http://openjpa.apache.org/
>>     http://opennlp.apache.org/
>>     http://pivot.apache.org/
>>     http://portals.apache.org/
>>     http://santuario.apache.org/
>>     http://sqoop.apache.org/
>>     http://struts.apache.org/
>>     http://tajo.apache.org/
>>     http://tika.apache.org/
>>     http://uima.apache.org/
>>     http://vcl.apache.org/
>>     http://vxquery.apache.org/
>>
>
>
>
> --
>
> ~/William

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