Catherine I went through almost the same thing at the same time except in a different field.
My little experiment turned into a biz and then I left the corporate job and now my app/biz is taking off. I would miss that icon if it goes, but also think evolution is good. > On Oct 28, 2014, at 5:27 PM, Catherine Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > This bike-shedding discussion seems almost played out, and I assume > people will go on making practical decisions about databases with or > without logos and mantras like "CouchDB has started, time to relax." > > So I should probably just shut up at this point. But it's hard to resist > adding one more anecdotal perspective to the mix. > > Back in 2010, while bumbling my way toward writing a textile-design > application for artists, I heard about couchdb, its replication features > and its ability to store documents with varied and changing types of > data. "Great!" I thought, "Just what I need for storing and sharing > documents that describe textile designs in a still-evolving format." > > There followed some bleak days and months as I struggled to learn > something about couchdb (plus nginx and nodejs -- all immature and > short on documentation back then) and to get all this software to work > together. Throughout that struggle the man-on-the-couch logo and wildly > optimistic "time to relax" tag line sustained me. I loved the logo for > its vaguely non-corporate feel (more human than pure abstraction, more > fine-art than pop-art). The logo felt empowering to me. I took it as > saying, in effect, that it's OK to put one's foot up on the couch > sometimes, OK to start a project without knowing where it's going, > without having reduced all foreseeable documents to a known SQL schema. > > In short, the initial branding of couchdb (and what I read about Damien > Katz's intentions) seemed to me an invitation to developer creativity. > > --Catherine > >
