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On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM Paul King <pa...@asert.com.au> wrote: > Hi Midna, > > Thanks for your design. I do like it. And yes, this mailing list is fine. > > We aren't necessarily unhappy with the current logo. We do get feedback, > from time to time, that the logo (and even the name Groovy) can seem > strange at first, and then people seem to get used to it, and often grow to > like it. And it does seem to have reasonable brand recognition for folks > who have been in the industry for a while. > > Having said that, most of our community is open minded and if we believed > a new logo would be better for the language, we could probably navigate > such a change. We'd probably open it up to see if anyone else had candidate > new logos and then run some kind of poll. > > The timing of your suggestion however, isn't ideal. The ASF itself is > currently contemplating a logo change[1]. They might move away from logos > containing the word "Apache" and maybe use "ASF" instead, or they might > produce a new image that we might want to include or be inspired from. I > don't want you to feel discouraged, but perhaps in 6 months time we'll know > whether the ASF process is something that might alter our thinking about > logos. If we do get to that point, I do hope you would submit your proposal > (or a revamp by then if we know more) for consideration. > > Cheers, Paul. > P.S. I attached a "low quality" logo (all I found quickly) that is > sometimes used in IDEs. > > [1]https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/evolving-the-asf-brand > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM midnaw <mid...@kakao.com> wrote: > >> >> Hello! I'm new to mailing lists in general, so please tell me if I'm putting >> this in the wrong place >> or otherwise misusing the list. >> >> >> I've designed and would like to propose an alternate logo for Groovy. It's a >> very nice programming >> >> language that satisfies all of my gripes with Java, but the logo gave me a >> bit of pause when deciding >> >> whether or not to learn it. Having spent some time with the language, the >> current logo is charming, >> >> and definitely screams 'groovy!' but I don't feel it translates well into an >> icon (for things like >> >> IDEs) and I feel it's also a bit jagged (the lines feel a bit too thick, for >> example.) >> >> >> I've attached a PDF with my design. I can tweak it if you'd like, and I >> really don't mind criticism >> >> (so long as it is constructive.) I like designing things, but I am by no >> means a professional designer. >> >> >> If the attachment isn't present, I've also uploaded it to Codeberg, where it >> is accessible here: >> >> >> https://codeberg.org/midna/bin/src/branch/main/GroovyLogo.pdf >> >> >> I'm not sure what terms would be necessary for this to become the new >> project logo, but if anyone does, >> >> please let me know. I also don't expect this to replace the project logo, >> since people tend to grow >> attached to them and I myself have been frustrated at redesigns like this. >> >> -MW >> mid...@kakao.com >> >
