Hi, 2010/1/3 Eric Wilhelm <enoba...@gmail.com>
> Am I alone here in thinking that we should be using the Onion trademark > rather than O'Reilly's trademark camel on the perl.org sites? > This is what I told the TPF marketing list when they asked... --- The goal for www.perl.org is to encourage new people into Perl (we found most people to the site are newbies/learning) and we want a clean design that had no potential to distract or confuse them from finding the information they are after. We did try and get the onion in there (there is the TPF link on the home page, and a big Onion on the about page). But it just didn't work. You can't have two logos on a page, and have it look good, I even tried putting it as a background image, but again that didn't work. We're not opposed to more Onion, but couldn't find a good way to make it fit that didn't look bad. This has probably been said before... but for your information... Almost every person (of a dozen non-techies & .net developers in my office) I showed the Onion to were confused by it. They thought it was a 'sad' thing about making you cry, or just irrelevant. With the camel they thought it was a 'nice' image, e.g. there was no confusion / negative feeling even if they didn't 'get' it. --- Maybe someone could get a grant to hire someone/a company with design skills to come up with a better logo than the onion? On the trademark side my understanding is O'Reilly have granted Perl.org the rights to use the Camel, and they (to my knowledge) haven't rejected anyone requesting to use it else where. Anyway, this is not a decision for me and is not something I'm going to do anything about so this discussion needs to be directed elsewhere if you want to get it changed :) Cheers Leo
