On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 07:06 +0100, Lukáš Vlček wrote: > Hi, > I was trying to get more education about droids (although I saw some > epizodes of Star Wars on TV I am generally lacking this education). > According to some sources the term Droid is trademark of George Lucas: > http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Droid#Trademark > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid > > So, may be there should be some credits on the project home page.
I am not a lawyer and we need to discuss this on the legal ml. Sure there is a certain association between Apache Droids and the starwars ones. I see an Apache Droid as one functional unit as R2D2 had been in the comic. A droid is a robot. > > Anyway, I will try to put more droids into the logo. Or maybe I will try to > put them aside (like the elephant in Hadoop or the droid(?!) in Nutch is not > directly included in the letters but can be used as a stand-alone entity). Could you combine it? I mean integrate them in the letters (the D would be another awesome candidate for it) as we have in the "I". But this "I" could be as well a standalone logo, does that makes sense? Thank you very much for your work. salu2 > > Lukas > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:37 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I like them both..... although I once had Star Wars cheques with C3PO and > > "Tell Jabba I got his money" quote on them, so I'd really love to see some > > droids there. > > > > > > Otis > > -- > > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > From: Lukáš Vlček <[email protected]> > > > To: [email protected] > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:36:43 PM > > > Subject: Re: logo? > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I made some updates to original logo draft: > > > > > http://picasaweb.google.cz/lh/photo/1iov7p7R39cr-TEFlETrUw?feat=directlink > > > > > > feedback please > > > > > > Regards, > > > Lukas > > > > > > 2009/3/13 Lukáš Vlček > > > > > > > As for the archiving I think Google will take care of this part :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > > > > > > > >> +1. I like the sketch, too! We should definitely archive it for > > > >> posterity! > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> On Mar 10, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Ryan McKinley wrote: > > > >> > > > >> I love the "i" > > > >>> > > > >>> I like Thorstens idea of gears/mechanical reference as well -- not > > simply > > > >>> robots. > > > >>> > > > >>> thanks Lukas > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> On Mar 10, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Lukáš Vlček wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>> Hello, > > > >>>> I sketched down first rough idea: > > > >>>> http://picasaweb.google.cz/lh/photo/x6Yj3eVMRGBQpikyIGmjgw > > > >>>> > > > >>>> I am not fully satisfied with it (really just a quick draft) but > > could > > > >>>> be a > > > >>>> good starting point. > > > >>>> I tried to keep it far away from Android and Star Wars stuff (do we > > > >>>> really > > > >>>> want 70's look&feel - aren't we in the new millenium now?). > > > >>>> > > > >>>> Feedback welcome! > > > >>>> > > > >>>> Regards, > > > >>>> Lukas > > > >>>> > > > >>>> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Thorsten Scherler > > > >>>> >wrote: > > > >>>> > > > >>>> On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 15:20 -0500, Ryan McKinley wrote: > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>>> While we are on the topic of a potential 0.1 release... > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> Lukáš Vlček just contacted me to see if we are still interested in > > > >>>>>> helping design a logo for Droids. > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> I like the direction of the existing logo: > > > >>>>>> http://incubator.apache.org/droids/images/droid-logo.png > > > >>>>>> but think it could use some help to make it look > > finished/professional > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> Yes, we need to change this logo ASAP since it may incorporate too > > much > > > >>>>> material which are arguable copyrighted by certain people due to > > common > > > >>>>> perceptions. > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>>> Lukas suggests we may want to do a logo contest like we did for > > solr. > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> I am ambivalent to starting an official contest vs just working on > > a > > > >>>>>> logo (no contest). The advantage of a contest is that we could > > have a > > > >>>>>> fixed end date and potentially a wider set of designers. I would > > > >>>>>> happily offer $40. > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> thoughts? > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> jeje, I would love to see the first official logo coming from > > someone > > > >>>>> inside (or "fan of") droids. > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> If Lukas wants he can provide some logo suggestions but IMO we do > > not > > > >>>>> have sufficient subscriber to call for a context. We will credit > > his > > > >>>>> work on our webpage if we accept it. > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> wdyt? > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> salu2 > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>>> ryan > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> -- > > > >>>>> Thorsten Scherler > > > >>>>> Open Source > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>>> -- > > > >>>> http://blog.lukas-vlcek.com/ > > > >>>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >> -------------------------- > > > >> Grant Ingersoll > > > >> http://www.lucidimagination.com/ > > > >> > > > >> Search the Lucene ecosystem (Lucene/Solr/Nutch/Mahout/Tika/Droids) > > using > > > >> Solr/Lucene: > > > >> http://www.lucidimagination.com/search > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > http://blog.lukas-vlcek.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > http://blog.lukas-vlcek.com/ > > > > > > -- Thorsten Scherler <thorsten.at.apache.org> Open Source <consulting, training and solutions>
