I don't know what is meant by "official logo", but if we're referring to trademarks, one could argue (successfully?) that the 'a' by itself, in that specific style, is a trademark, just like the full logo we use on the page, especially since we use the 'a' by itself in the monitor page's "favicon".
-- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Keith Turner <ke...@deenlo.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Mike Drob <mad...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > Yea, as an outside observer, I would have no idea what "Apache A" is, nor > > any idea how to get more information. Maybe we just need a different > logo, > > > > One mitigating factor, is that if anyone used the logo on a web site I > think they would normally make the image link to the Accumulo web site. > This would give some context. > > I suppose the biggest problem is that its not the official logo of > Accumulo. Many logos completely out of context convey no information (like > hadoop's elephant). Since the 'a' by itself is not the official logo, we > can not really use it. > > > > altogether, given the context of putting it in the PBA circle. > > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Keith Turner <ke...@deenlo.com> wrote: > > > > > I was a looking at the new Accumulo powered logo [1] and thought that > > just > > > an A[2] may be better. Any other thoughts on how to improve this? > > > > > > Someone mentioned that just the A[2] isn't as informative in the case > > where > > > someone is completely unfamiliar w/ Accumulo. > > > > > > [1]: http://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/poweredBy/pb-accumulo.jpg > > > [2]: http://people.apache.org/~kturner/pb-accumulo.png > > > > > >
