Thanks to Gerhard for floating this up, thanks to IRIAN for allocating the resources, and thanks to Adonis for the great work! This seems to have a lot of positives:
- keeps the blue, which some people had mentioned they wanted to keep (we would probably simply match our site's stylesheet to this logo if we adopt it) - preserves the bean theme from "Bean Validation" while IMHO improving the overall look (one stylized bean vs. ... what we have now) - preserves the "check mark => validation" from the old logo, which also coordinates with e.g. Myfaces-Extval [1] Matt [1] http://myfaces.apache.org/extensions/validator/index.html On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Gerhard Petracek <[email protected]> wrote: > hi @ all, > > adonis raduca (our designer) sent a suggestion for a new logo [1]. > > regards, > gerhard > > [1] http://people.apache.org/~gpetracek/bval/logo/ > > http://www.irian.at > > Your JSF/JavaEE powerhouse - > JavaEE Consulting, Development and > Courses in English and German > > Professional Support for Apache MyFaces > > > > > 2012/3/13 Matt Benson <[email protected]> >> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Roman Stumm <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Matt, >> > >> > thanks for the new website. >> > >> > Agimatec GmbH does not exist anymore for more than a year. Could you >> > change >> > the company under "http://bval.apache.org/people.html"; for Roman Stumm >> > to >> > Viaboxx GmbH instead? >> >> I will, but if you like you can change it yourself using the CMS (or >> in svn). You can read more about it at www.apache.org/dev/cmsref. >> >> > >> > About the logo. I think there is no way to modify the former logo, so >> > that >> > it doesn't look like ***. Instead, how about green (=validated) beans as >> > the >> > logo or as part of the logo? I am not a graphics designer, so attached >> > is >> > just a picture to illustrate my basic idea to create logo. Maybe someone >> > get >> > inspiration from it... (The V could also be part of the word BVal ...) >> >> Hmm, looks like the attachment didn't come through. Maybe we should >> just open a JIRA issue for discussion and to which files could be >> attached. >> >> Thanks, >> Matt >> >> > >> > Roman >> > >> > >> > Am 12.03.12 22:49, schrieb Matt Benson: >> > >> >> Hi all, >> >> The website is up at http://bval.apache.org, on svnpubsub and the >> >> Apache CMS (natural successor to Confluence-built sites). The site is >> >> mostly verbatim from the previous Confluence site, and there is still >> >> some outstanding housekeeping to do from our old Confluence space to >> >> our new (since most of the old space was just dedicated to running the >> >> website, it's an open question precisely what we want to live in >> >> Confluence, particularly as editing CMS content is of a similar level >> >> of complexity/involvement to working in Confluence. >> >> >> >> An outstanding issue, should anyone feel up to tackling it, is making >> >> the cross-domain REST call to cwiki.apache.org to get our blog entries >> >> onto the BVal index page. The code is present but my limited JS-fu >> >> has not yet found a palatable way to make the call. Confluence's REST >> >> API doesn't seem to handle json-p, and while js guru Werner Punz has >> >> suggested using an iframe I've been too lazy/stubborn yet to attempt >> >> it. >> >> >> >> Finally, can we *please* come to some sort of agreement on a direction >> >> for a new logo? ;) >> >> >> >> Matt >> > >> > > >
