On Oct 3, 2013, at 5:52 PM, Chip Childers <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 03:34:15PM +0000, Giles Sirett wrote: >> All >> >> I'm really not a big fan of using the monkey for this. >> The monkey is fun and interesting in the community context but if I had a >> public cloud or product powered by ACS, I wouldn't want to put that on my >> website. >> >> IMO the concept of "powered by" needs to get over a message of reliability, >> safe tech, etc - I don't think the monkey does that. Also, it has to be a >> logo that people will want to use on their sites. The monkey may be a bit >> too much fun for that >> >> Now -everybody will say - "what would you use instead" - I'm not full of >> ideas, but I think the standard ACS text only logo with a "powered by" >> tagline would be more widley used. >> >> Alternatively, something like these: >> http://forums.auroraos.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2030 >> With those, we could still have Mr Monkey, but he would be slightly diluted. > > Great feedback Giles. Thanks! > > Funny though, the Hadoop Elephant seems to have > been accepted by the industry and it splashed all over the place! > I know the origin of the monkey logo but in my 10 seconds stereotype: -the elephant is strong, reliable and "tamed" -the monkey is crazy, noisy, agitated and plays tricks on you > I'll take a crack at some treatments that don't include the monkey, as > well as more that do. > > -chip
