At 05:01 PM 04/02/02 +0800, Stas Bekman wrote:
>Jonathan M. Hollin wrote:
>> Through all of this, I had forgotten that our new logo and buttons had
>> been chosen through a democratic vote, and I realise that it is not my
>> place to disregard that vote by modifying the winning logo and
>> soliciting the development of a new button. For all of this, I
>> sincerely apologise.
Jonathan, you did a great job. There's no mod_perl constitution that binds
web site designers to any specific design selected by a vote. A vote was
not required, but a nice thing to do. And now we have a logo picked by a
vote.
Looking back, I think we should have just offered logos, because picking
the images a la carte doesn't let the images follow a theme. They don't
have to all match, but my guess is that would be a better design if
everything worked together. But it will look fine regardless, although
being consistent helps develop the mod_perl "brand."
On the other hand, nobody is going to get confused about what mod_perl is
just because there's different image themes. mod_perl isn't a soft drink
or a bag of cookies that someone shops for in their local market ("let's
see, should we get the mod_perl, php, or java today?").
>I think it's OK to have a few buttons to choose from, for other sites
>to link back to perl.apache.org. So we just need to create a new button
>based on the winner design and then we have 3 buttons to choose from.
>Regarding the logo issue, I think that the conclusion was that we must
>have the underscore in the logo. Otherwise we have a problem of
>
> modperl != mod_perl
Stas, the logo doesn't need to compile. ;)
>The vote was for the logo design, not the wording/spel?ing. Correct me
>if I'm wrong but I don't think that we break the rules if we 'fix' the
>name in the winner logo to match the product name, disregarding your
>likes or dislikes of this name.
I think the vote was for the design, and that includes the letters and
spelling. Maybe the reason it won in part was because it didn't have the
underscore? There were designs without the underscore to pick from. What
if the winning design had been some cog and big initials MP? Couldn't
really justify squeezing in the rest of the letters and calling it the same
winning design.
Someone posted a version of the winning logo with an underscore. I didn't
think that logo looked right. It looked like the underscore was forced in.
Since the logo was picked by a vote the first time, I think if the logo is
changed we should do another vote, out of respect for those that voted the
first time. No, that's probably a bad idea. That's like saying "a few of
use were not happy with the results of the majority vote, so let's do
another." If you/we feel strongly that the logo needs an underscore, just
make an the change.
But, I think it's just fine the way it is, really.
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Bill Moseley
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