I don't think Hoss wants to be involved in the logo contest beyond the
guidance he gave ;)
What is there now is really a template I stole from other logo contests.
It hasn't really been blessed or finished. For instance, the contest end
date should be decided upon. No committer has even really endorsed
running the contest - not a big deal, but I think it means things are
not yet official. Agreeing that the current rules are fine and deciding
on an end date would seem to remedy that.
As far as getting other interest beyond the developers, once the contest
is blessed, I'd be happy to try and spread the word. I don't predict it
will do much good though. However, I think we already have some quality
logos and this is really just a chance for late comers to get into the
game - so I am personally not so worried about getting other designers
(I would like for it to happen though).
If people see clear concrete steps ahead that I can help with, just let
me know.
- Mark
Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
Hoss, I like the LogoContest page, but I have a feeling it will not result in
more logo candidates getting submitted because the only people who know about
it are solr-user/dev subscribers, and people here are typically not designers.
Perhaps solr-user/dev subscribers have pointed their designer friends and
colleagues to the LogoContest page?
Otis
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----- Original Message ----
From: Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:55:00 PM
Subject: Re: Solr Logo thought
: I think Shalin's poll is the contest. :)
A public poll is a voting mechanism, it can be part ofa contest ... a
contest involves "rules" (which in our case have to do with attaching to
Jira and granting liscence, also probably some size requirements) and a
specific, anounced in advance, window of time in which entires are
accepted (a public poll for voting should also involve a specific,
anounced in advance, window of time to participate.)
People who want to help spell out a little bette exactly how/when the
contest should run should help hack up the wiki page...
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LogoContest
-Hoss
