Great idea Les, and thanks to your employer for the contribution! I've used 99designs before and it really helps to give the designers feedback and rate each design during the contest. I see that you are already rating them. But I'm curious how or if you are going to get community feedback to the designers before the contest is over. It's too bad there isn't some way to do a "community vote" on 99designs so that the community could participate in the rating of each design. I wonder if crowdspring.com has that feature?
So should we just cast our votes via email? Should we give feedback before the contest is over, or wait until it has completed? At the moment, in order of preference, I like designs #97, #9 (but in blue not red), #183, and #165. Blue seems like a better choice to me than red, as it seems more soothing and trustworthy. Red seems like you'll be putting out fires. I like #183 when it is small, but not so much the large version, as the lines don't seem to line up too well. If it was cleaned up, I might like it better. I really do NOT like all the ones that contain a floppy disk icon. Hope this helps. Tauren On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Les Hazlewood <l...@hazlewood.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > My employer has authorized me to sponsor a logo design contest on > 99designs.com for a new Apache Shiro logo: > > http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/amazing-logo-needed-global-software-project-44769?orderby=rating > > There are 3 days remaining for submissions. Votes may continue to be > held for 7 days thereafter. > > The winner will be awarded $295.00 USD (via 99designs.com) and the > logo will be immediately donated to the ASF where it will be available > under the Apache 2.0 license. > > If you don't wish to enter the contest - and don't want a shot at some > free $ ;) - you can alternatively submit logo designs to this Jira > issue: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHIRO-171 > > Any new logo chosen will be based 100% on the Shiro community's votes. > The logo with the most votes wins! > > Les > > ----- > The reason for the contest: We have had a number of issues with the > old logo: we can't find the old .psd files to modify to meet ASF > naming requirements, and we also haven't been able to contact the > designer we've used years ago to help. Also, the existing logo was > not designed by a person with a CLA on file with the ASF, so there is > gray area as to its use now that we're a part of Apache. By hosting a > competition, the community can vote on their favorite, in classic ASF > fashion. >
