That last sketch of a cuttlefish with a hat is really really good. I vote for that.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:33 AM Kenneth Knowles <k...@apache.org> wrote: > PSA: cuttlefish tentacles look more like their face, not their legs. > Please find attached illustrations to that effect. And also evidence that > they are occasionally fancy. Definitely *not* from a respectable designer > or anyone who could execution a professional logo. > > I do think the PMC needs to shepherd this. I would suggest starting with > an approval vote [1] for animal (no plant ideas?) and then an ASF-style > vote to record the validated result. From there, we can go through more > standard design process. > > Kenn > > [1] https://www.electionscience.org/library/approval-voting/ > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 6:54 AM Maximilian Michels <m...@apache.org> wrote: > >> It's great we're having this discussion and we came up with a lot of >> great ideas through it. However, it is unclear how we proceed from here. >> Certainly, we can't let designers work with an open-ended discussion on >> the type of mascot. >> >> Personally, I'm fine with _any_ kind of mascot, as long as it is made by >> a decent designer. The respectable designer I'm talking to was very >> generous to donate these sketches for free. I don't think that this is >> to be expected at all. Coming back to the original idea of hiring >> multiple designers, I don't see how we will pay those designers to all >> come up with a logo, unless we all donate money. >> >> The sketches I've sent might not look like much because there is still a >> decent process involved in coming up with the final logo which looks >> good in different sizes, possibly with many iterations. So far I've >> tried to incorporate as many of the suggestions here, but for the sake >> of protecting the designer, I think I'll have to stop doing that. It >> simply won't work. >> >> How to proceed from here? I think _any_ professionally executed logo >> will do, this is really more about the community agreeing for the >> greater good. Ultimately, I think the PMC might have to decide on how to >> proceed here. >> >> Cheers, >> Max >> >> On 15.11.19 13:59, Hannah Jiang wrote: >> > I also vote for firefly. >> > >> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 1:38 PM Valentyn Tymofieiev < >> valen...@google.com >> > <mailto:valen...@google.com>> wrote: >> > >> > I like the firefly sketch a lot, it's my favorite so far. >> > >> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 12:58 PM Robert Bradshaw >> > <rober...@google.com <mailto:rober...@google.com>> wrote: >> > >> > #37 from the sketches was the cuttlefish, which would put it at >> > (with >> > 4 votes) the most popular so far. I do like the firefly too. >> > >> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 12:03 PM Gris Cuevas <g...@apache.org >> > <mailto:g...@apache.org>> wrote: >> > > >> > > Hi everyone, so exciting to see this convo taking off! >> > > >> > > I loved Alex's firefly! -- it can have so many cool >> > variations, and as a stuffed animal is very original. >> > > >> > > Other ideas I had are a caterpillar because it looks like a >> > data pipeline, lol or the beaver! >> > > >> > > Feedback on the current sketches. >> > > - They resemble a lot either the Octocat or Totoro [1] >> > > - I'd like to see something that is completely new and >> > original, pancakes from gRPC is an example[2] >> > > - Something more caricaturesque is better, since we can dress >> > it up and modify it >> > > >> > > To move forward, it seems that the animals that were winners >> > in this thread are: >> > > >> > > Beaver (3) >> > > Firefly (3) >> > > Lemur or votes on sketches (3) >> > > Cuttlefish (2) >> > > Hedgehog (1) >> > > Salmon (1) >> > > >> > > So let's focus the design proposals on the three winners: >> > beaver, firefly and lemur. >> > > I'd like to see more options on beavers and fireflies, the >> > current sketch options I think are based on the cuttlefish and >> > the lemur (?) >> > > >> > > I think it's a good idea to get sketches from multiple >> > designers, since like someone else pointed out, we'll get >> > variations based on their personal styles, and someone else >> > mentioned here that we have teams/companies >> <https://teams.googleplex.com/u/companies> >> > <https://teams.googleplex.com/u/companies> with designers in >> > their teams, so let's take advantage of that as well :) >> > > >> > > I'd suggest to fork the conversation into a call for sketched >> > and we vote on that. >> > > >> > > [1] >> > >> https://www.google.com/search?q=totoro&sxsrf=ACYBGNTFW6vq76cHp05g4vBaR-SVJNI1iw:1573674471669&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTwICf-uflAhUKHqwKHVtzAykQ_AUIEigB&biw=1440&bih=735 >> > > [2] >> > >> https://www.google.com/search?q=pancakes+grpc&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwixgqjV-uflAhUBOawKHX2pAfsQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=pancakes+grpc&gs_l=img.3...13774.22674..22826...10.0..0.112.1818.13j6......0....1..gws-wiz-img.....10..35i39j0j0i67j35i362i39j0i10j0i5i30j0i8i30.hNtaBfSYNv8&ei=WV7MXfHxIYHysAX90obYDw&bih=735&biw=1440 >> > >> >
