Sensible response and believe am in agreement -- and, related, I don't have any better ideas for logos at the moment.
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 10:16 PM Joshua C. Poore <[email protected]> wrote: > Austin! > > Thanks so much for the input. #2 is my favorite, too. > > Flagon is user analysis for the masses. It's open source, scalable > business analytics for some. It's usability analysis for others. And, > its turning the web into a decision-sciences laboratory for others. > We're trying to make user analysis open source and safe for all time. > We're trying to up the game, too. Clickstream is dumb, we're about > patterns of life and real behavioral science. > > Check out the website: http://flagon.incubator.apache.org/ > > As for what the logo has to do with anything about our project: Its all > history, just like Apple's Apple, Microsoft's Window, and Google's > Wheel. Our first UserALE (our logging service) developer was super into > beer. So he named it User-ALE (Analytic Logging Engine). The alcohol > reference became a thing for the dev team--we started naming all our > apps after booze (ALE, Distill, TAP, STOUT). So, when we changed our > name, the name really aligned with the history of the products (e.g., > Flagon of ALE) more than the products' scope. So, our logos don't really > have to have anything to do with our product, or a Flagon, they just > have to be cool, fun, and energize people. > > If there are better ideas for something that aligns with behavioral > logging, or actual Flagons (tough, I tried...), I'm all ears. But, we > don't need to constrain ourselves, especially not at the cost of having > fun and doing awesome things. I'd rather someone see something and ask, > "whats that?" than see something completely obvious and have no > motivation to explore. Our logo won't affect hits on Google, it will > affect how much people spent time on our website or our booth at the > next Apache con... > > Thoughts? > > > On 9/29/2019 12:42 AM, Austin Bennett wrote: > > #2 looks super cool; still don't have a great sense of what project is > > trying to do as to whether sufficiently in-line. > > > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 9:38 PM Joshua C. Poore <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Hi Folks, > >> > >> I've been doing some sketches on Flagon logos. Probably we'll want a few > >> for various things, but we need a primary logo to use on Twitter, > >> website, etc., etc. I can't get them to go through unscathed through the > >> dev lists. You can find them at this link: > >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLAGON/Flagon+Logos > >> > >> These are just sketches I made. I have someone (probably) who can finish > >> them off, touch them up for us and make them web-ready. Of course, if > >> someone from the community would like to do that, I'll take it! Just > >> remember that the final will be copyright ASF. > >> > >> I call the first: FlagLorean. Was inspired by Back to the Future and the > >> old ORION films logo > >> ( > >> > https://www.google.com/search?q=orion+pictures&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS863US863&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-4srQlvXkAhWOdd8KHXWgCfYQ_AUIEygC&biw=1368&bih=770#imgrc=NOPjZ1AuCpmMMM: > ). > >> > >> I wanted a throwback. I imagine this would have a metallic finish with > >> some color inlets (negotiable). I call the second: FlagonSaveTheQueen. > >> It speaks for itself, but was inspired with by the Pistols and Norse > >> runes. For both, I wanted something that we could crop up and use for a > >> web extension icon, which would be recognizable. I liked the idea of > >> using the "ON" in Flagon as our icon. Both of these logos would give us > >> something interesting to put in people's browsers, in that regard. > >> > >> I'm looking for feedback about what people would like to see on the > >> website, wrt to a Logo. Whether either of these are moving in an > >> interesting direction. Again, we need one primary logo, but a few others > >> for Merch/Giveaways. FlagonSaveTheQueen will make a bad-ass patch, for > >> example. Anyway, open to feedback and any other ideas. The sooner we > >> pick some logos, the sooner we can get some cool shirts made :) > >> > >> Best, > >> > >> Josh > >> > >> > >> > >> >
