On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote: > Updated. > > Btw, as of now we have 18 voters. So quite a few people have expressed > their opinion with this poll. > > I must admit that I don't know how we are going to agree on the final > logo here. We might need the "benevolent dictator for life" to jump in > and make a few executive decisions. >
I really appreciate Daniel's perseverance, enthusiasm and hard work in pursuing this and the general web site updates. With that out of the way, the following is completely my opinion. I haven't voted for any logo because I personally don't think any of the logos are good enough (yes, not even the ones I myself contributed). None of them quite capture what PDL is about, nor convey what it can do. Christian's PDL prompt is probably the best of the lot, but while it conveys a sophistication and seriousness of the tool, it doesn't do justice to it beyond reducing it to a command prompt. I personally don't think a logo is created via a committee. It is just one of those creative exercises that is best left to a trained logo designer who (metaphorically) sits down with a few of the serious developers/users/and of course, the original creator of PDL, gets their views, and then tries to capture it all in an icon. Once again, I reiterate, in my view PDL without a logo is better than PDL with a bad logo. PDL is coming of age. It has existed for a while, but now it is attracting non-traditional users, folks such as me, with no background in the traditional PDL disciplines. Chris Marshall (and Matt Kenworthy and others) are doing great work in making the installs easy and easier. The documentation is getting hammered into good shape. A new version of the PDL book, htmlized and all, would be great. The PDL map does a useful job of showing the spatial and disciplinary spread of PDL, but sadly it is underpopulated -- I mean, if PDL has less than two dozen users around the world then it probably is not worth the development effort. I really doubt that is the case though, but where are the rest of the users? Why are they not submitting their data? Are they not aware of this list? Are they not aware of the PDL map? In my view, PDL is really one of the most exciting things about Perl. It makes Perl as fast as C, and makes complicated algorithms and techniques as easy as Perl. It really deserves the front-page on Perl, on par with DBI. Coming back to the logo -- my personal wish is that once a small set of possible logos is identified, then the senior developers, perhaps Karl (if he has the time), contact some Perl/opensource friendly logo designer and see if she/he would lend their chops to doing a logo worthy of PDL. Ok. With that, once again, my deep appreciation for Daniel and others' enthusiasm about making PDL and "its looks" better. -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
