Hi Niclas, I think I got it & and I like the story.. So lets go for it ! :-)
Cheers, jj 2015-05-11 1:14 GMT+02:00 Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]>: > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:56 AM, Jiri Jetmar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > while I look at the Logo I get a feeling of hunger.. :-) > > Mission accomplished!! > > > What is the story behind it ? A logo has something to do with story > > telling. > > So when someone wants to know about Apache Zest what does the logo > > express ? > > Ahhhh.... Well, that was a tale from 2007... > > Chinese has many ideograms that are pronounced "Qi" (chee, as in > "chicken"), > > First an foremost is what the intent was when it was seelcted; > 气 - vital energy, energy of life, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi > > but many, many others... A sample... > 起 - Start, begin or build > 期 - scheduled time, appointment > 启 - awaken > 契 - contract > 岐 - divergent > 汽 - steam > > (Only selected the related ones ;-) ) > > In some Chinese folklore, the source of the 气 comes from rice, and hence > the rice bowl of steamed rice, in the "spirit" of the Java logo.[1] > > I hope this helps... > > > [1] I was attending Oredev (developer's conference) and was wearing a Qi4j > T-shirt, and a Microsoft product manager started talking to me, under the > impression that I was with Sun's Java team, and needed to be reminded that > it wasn't. > > > > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java >
