I don't care that much about the logo since I rarely ever see it. This seems like the sort of thing that warrants submissions and voting, one of which would be existing logo.
In general, when I hear folks feeling a need of new logo, it's thinking it's not 'professional' enough and looks more ominous than they like and that it's not what they want in a presentation to others. My perspective is if a company is uncomfortable, applying their own branding resources to their own packaging would be a way to go if they want a logo, just not 'upstream's logo. Besides cosmetic improvements, I also think there's an opportunity for more targeted downloads and documentation (e.g. a Lenovo repository would include the non-free utilities that back 'piflash' and 'pasu' without further effort, and also may offer documentation that skips over HMC and FSP and such to focus on the things our users that aren't already comfortable with xCAT are not likely to care about in their 'getting to know it' phase). But in terms of the upstream logo, I could see something with a simple/flat color scheme/pattern cleaner edges and maybe not use bones. But my opinion is pretty weak since aside from questions about the logo itself, I haven't given the logo a second thought in a very very long time. The stylized x in the new logo doesn't seem too shabby, not personally a fan of the C. Probably be consistently sans-serif for the whole thing to match the x. The cat itself... I trend toward it being too cute but also don't have much suggestion on that front. -----Original Message----- From: Rich Sudlow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 10:13 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: Re: [xcat-user] The logo of xCAT On 10/13/2015 10:05 AM, Christian Caruthers wrote: > I second what Rich said. While the cat itself is cartoonish, the name looks > alright. What's the urgency about changing the logo? If anything, possibly > look at cleaning up the existing logo a bit. Another idea might be to use the > old ascii art cat. Maybe capture an image of that, convert it to vector and > resize it. > I agree with Christian - I think the name looks alright with the new one. Or a 3D type image?? - or java where the old logo morphs into a cool new image (not the proposed hell(o) kitty ;-)) Rich > Regards, > Christian Caruthers > Lenovo xESS IT Consultant > Mobile: 757-289-9872 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rich Sudlow [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 9:52 AM > To: xCAT Users Mailing list > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] The logo of xCAT > > On 10/13/2015 09:41 AM, Xiao Peng Wang wrote: >> Several weeks ago we had some discussion to make a new logo for xCAT. >> Now we got a new one in this page (_http://xcat.org/index2.html_), >> you can compare it with the current one here (http://xcat.org/) > > OMG - You have got to be kidding....you have people in our office roaring > with laughter at the absurdity of this!! >> >> Someone thought the new one is too cute. What's your opinion? > > Keep the old one!! > >> >> I remember someone preferred the current logo, so maybe we can just >> refine it to make it more modern? > > There was more than one who preferred the current logo - I was one of them... > > What's wrong with the current one - just call it retro ;-) > > Rich - AKA retro Rich ;-) > > > > -- > Rich Sudlow > University of Notre Dame > Center for Research Computing - Union Station > 506 W. South St > South Bend, In 46601 > > (574) 631-7258 (office) > (574) 807-1046 (cell) > > > >> >> >> Thanks >> Best Regards >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - >> Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) >> IBM China System Technology Laboratory >> Tel: 86-10-82453455 >> Email: [email protected] >> Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, >> Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - >> -------- >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xCAT-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > -- Rich Sudlow University of Notre Dame Center for Research Computing - Union Station 506 W. South St South Bend, In 46601 (574) 631-7258 (office) (574) 807-1046 (cell) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
