On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Benson, > > This sounds a bit like a case of owl or nothing... > > > > * We can see if there are any other of the submissions we received for the > contest we ran and do a vote off > > * we can try and reboot the contest again; or > > * we can see if the community is happy with "shotgun the (mostly) friendly > owl" ;-) and Alte Haas Grotesk Bold Italic > > * a final option would be to see if branding could give us a couple of > hundred dollars to run a design contest on one of the design contest > sites... When I looked into that option I came to the conclusion that we'd > either need to get very lucky or we'd need to give a reasonably constrained > brief as to what we want in a logo & mascot.... Otherwise we risk > inappropriate use of Native American imagery (or if that's not an issue we > could use the teepee logo I designed)... Or we end up with a logo that has > no meaning for the project > Here is probably the only place I disagree with you. Good logo's don't have to start life with meaning; they have to start life as memorable, and then they acquire meaning by association. Maybe the felix.apache.org logo resulted from some concept, maybe not, but to me it's purely a distinctive graphic with at most, a diffuse relationship to content. Or look at accumulo, which is 'typography + decoration.' The decoration has, again, a very abstract relationship to the contents. > > Right now, my feeling is that the contest ran its course... I really would > have liked the teepee logo with the feather v... Using just the teepee as a > mascot... But after taking on board the concerns over usage of Native > American imagery... After finding other "maven" companies using raven > logos... My considered opinion is the owl is the best we have > > I don't have the energy to do anything other than call a vote to adopt the > owl and my suggested logo... So if people want to explore the other > options, please step up speak out and run with it! > > If nobody speaks out in the next couple of days I'll call the vote > (if that would mean a vote over the US centric holiday, I think the vote > should last a bit longer than 72h) > And I'll probably vote for it. The Owl is a big improvement over the current situation; I wanted to know what our options were. > > -Stephen > > > On Monday, November 24, 2014, Sally Khudairi > <sallykhuda...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > >> Hey Benson --thanks so much for your note. >> >> Unfortunately, our donated resources are extremely limited; I'm not sure >> how we'll be proceeding with the proposed Foundation work given the level >> of feedback to incorporate. >> >> Having said that, several Apache projects, such as Logging, were seeking >> a new logo for Log4j 2 and put a call for help from the public >> https://t.co/p633jVyld9 --I'll be happy to help spread the word and >> assist however needed. >> >> Warmly, >> Sally >> >> >> [From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and >> brevity] >> >> ----- Reply message ----- >> From: "Benson Margulies" <bimargul...@gmail.com> >> To: "Sally Khudairi" <s...@apache.org>, "Maven Developers List" < >> dev@maven.apache.org> >> Subject: Graphic Design Assistance? >> Date: Sun, Nov 23, 2014 21:50 >> >> Sally, >> The Maven community would like to update and improve its graphic design. >> I wondered, based on the work on the overall Foundation site, where there >> was any donated professional assistance of this kind available to >> individual communities. We have some volunteer efforts in the direction of >> a logo/mascot, but we wonder if any assistance is to be had. >> >> --benson > > > > -- > Sent from my phone >
