Seems the mailing list may have filtered the inlined prototype logo, attaching it here instead
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 11:54 PM Sophie Blee-Goldman <sop...@confluent.io> wrote: > Matthias makes a good point about being careful not to position Streams as > outside of Apache Kafka. One obvious thing we could do it just include the > Kafka logo as-is in the Streams logo, somehow. > > I have some unqualified opinions on what that might look like: > A good logo is simple and clean, so incorporating the Kafka logo as a minor > detail within a more complicated image is probably not the best way to get > the quick and easy comprehension/recognition that we're going for. > > That said I'd throw out the idea of just attaching something to the Kafka > logo, > perhaps a stream-dwelling animal, perhaps a (river) otter? It could be > "swimming" left of the Kafka logo, with its head touching the upper circle > and > its tail touching the bottom one. Like Streams, it starts with Kafka and > ends > with Kafka (ie reading input topics and writing to output topics). > > Without further ado, here's my very rough prototype for the Kafka Streams > logo: > > [image: image.png] > Obviously the real thing would be colored and presumably done by someone > with actual artist talent/experience (or at least photoshop ability). > > Thoughts? > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2020, 1:08 PM Matthias J. Sax <mj...@apache.org> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA512 >> >> Boyang, >> >> thanks for starting this discussion. I like the idea in general >> however we need to be a little careful IMHO -- as you mentioned Kafka >> is one project and thus we should avoid the impression that Kafka >> Streams is not part of Apache Kafka. >> >> Besides this, many projects use animals that are often very adorable. >> Maybe we could find a cute Streams related mascot? :) >> >> I would love to hear opinions especially from the PMC if having a logo >> for Kafka Streams is a viable thing to do. >> >> >> - -Matthias >> >> On 3/3/20 1:01 AM, Patrik Kleindl wrote: >> > Hi Boyang Great idea, that would help in some discussions. To throw >> > in a first idea: https://imgur.com/a/UowXaMk best regards Patrik >> > >> > On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 18:23, Boyang Chen >> > <reluctanthero...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Hey Apache Kafka committers and community folks, >> >> >> >> over the years Kafka Streams has been widely adopted and tons of >> >> blog posts and tech talks have been trying to introduce it to >> >> people with need of stream processing. As it is part of Apache >> >> Kafka project, there is always an awkward situation where Kafka >> >> Streams could not be campaigned as a standalone streaming engine, >> >> and makes people confused about its relation to Kafka. >> >> >> >> So, do we want to introduce a customized logo just for Streams? >> >> The immediate benefit is when people are making technical >> >> decisions, we could list Streams as a logo just like Flink and >> >> Spark Streaming, instead of putting Kafka logo there as it is not >> >> literally a legitimate comparison between processing framework >> >> and messaging system. Should we do a KIP for this? >> >> >> >> Boyang >> >> >> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEI8mthP+5zxXZZdDSO4miYXKq/OgFAl5kDVQACgkQO4miYXKq >> /Og2Hg/+IOjjz3yrvHOz/p/Qbi9hXDK+GZT6Ixzk2HrrpMiLAAZs6WrNGQMwwI6a >> qrPdMRLKA45F53wwMXBqhLYe0O0vOIRSur3pef8UuTVEkbFstY6dNzduPjTXK4vV >> Ahzb+pu1lZsF+n2DbMuXWvkmvMAsSrKQXbH58rA7I4qx7Zr6g1a/KL2b2oOoo3kI >> 4x3PJfG6oLSnQHwkJxmM79ZjM7MLZh0d8cRqb7Oudy5MJiMzHY+Rm5aTu4nhPgRr >> cLxA8kz1PbGPboxjD9/ZGuZJMWfVnvY1wJcOp5UnOUs4kX5uYDyWw1sKIn3DcnW8 >> YVzoto0syCHTAdbl89H2fxhJbtVp8JSxbBx9AW8mdgLOLsYRZGHZ1cbdJ3h4NkeE >> xTPTuTptQbhdcjbSVX6F0q+h1hiPCU5PKqcR12zGVTBI4rOGkhPIhDdnIti5Qp2e >> MQ1Urh/tWCfwiJZbOyjZ9Tz/2vbUBB4kzUI9DxwWpD15jgMuN3JfqFwcwSIm7NrY >> jHcM3UB2QlUt+uymU78xjy6er2AFiGrfL7UXeFHzzVIWBU3fdw4wqpuIuWjFhL3t >> NWnAvamXOc7kfE4VXQ8igoRUVDZ8xCCqNvVoaJZ1cWboY/Cfk+4sgd9QnDMZN9jU >> bzRpghQp3R93Vp5FH4L9z478uuh8DFM2/+6pqqapd9efydGtKrU= >> =OFBs >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >
