I have no problems with the logo as is. But no joke: I was using CouchDB for a few months before I realized it was a man on a couch, and not a piece of abstract art. lolz.
On 10/28/14, 10:39 AM, "Miles Fidelman" <[email protected]> wrote: >Which suggests that the new logo should keep the couch, but replace the >man with a cute animal - in keeping with open source tradition. :-) > >Cat, Koala, .. a few appropriate animals come to mind. > >Cheers, > >Miles Fidelman > >Alexander Shorin wrote: >> The "Time to Relax" is not only tagline, but also the goal to aim for. >> If you are not relaxed with CouchDB, probably, you just doing >> something wrong or should file an issue about (: >> -- >> ,,,^..^,,, >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Eric B <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> >>>wrote: >>> >>>> A minority of individuals suggested that it may be time to change >>>> the logo, the tagline and even the project name for various reasons. >>>> If we're considering any of these steps, now would be the time to >>>> figure that out -- prior to the impending 2.0 beta and release. >>>> >>>> I'd like to steer discussion towards these points and away from >>>> the topic of logo acceptability -- it's become clear to me that >>>> there is no further useful discussion possible on that topic. >>>> >>> As a fairly newcomer to CouchDB, I'd like to contribute by giving my >>> viewpoint and insight into the discussion to date. To be clear, I am >>>not >>> personally offended by the logo. But to be entirely fair (and >>>hopefully >>> no one will take offense at this), I don't particularly care too much >>>about >>> it either. I don't make technical decisions based on graphics, but >>>rather >>> what the product provides. >>> >>> To that extent, I chose CouchDB due to its feature set, community, and >>> platform availability. I wanted something that I could use in a >>> distributed manner without too much hassles. CouchDB offered me a >>>solution >>> for this. The fact that the tag line was "CouchDB and Relax" really >>>meant >>> nothing to me either. >>> >>> Coming from a RDBMS background, already moving to NoSQL has its >>>challenges >>> in design and approach. Using CouchDB as a persistence engine (and >>>not an >>> actual web-server) to a Java application means that it's HTTP API >>>doesn't >>> really impact me either (all access is wrapped in a library). >>> >>> So from my perspective, the tagline "...Relax..." isn't really even >>> accurate. If anything, CouchDB has less "standard" support in Java >>>(ie: >>> no Spring libraries, etc) and makes it less "relaxing" than something >>>like >>> MongoDB which has a big Spring following. >>> >>> If the goal is to rethink the name/logo/tagline, then perhaps a more >>> appropriate approach would be to target its feature set: (random >>>examples >>> purely to illustrate my point): "Easy NoSQL for the web" or >>>"Distributed >>> NoSQL made simple" or something more directed. >>> >>> But the primary goal, I believe, is to first decide whether anything >>> _needs_ to be changed. As others have already mentioned, something >>>will >>> always offend someone somewhere, in some different language or culture. >>> That being said, the question should rather be if the >>>product/community has >>> outgrown the tagline, and if so, what a new tagline/name should be. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Eric >
