Thanks Stack for organizing and herding this along, and thanks StumbleUpon for sponsoring it!
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > Your PMC voted the following as the new HBase logo: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12492477/01.jpg > > It will replace the now retired bass clef that has served us well down > through the years. > > We hope you like it. > > The process by which we came up with this design was long and > torturous. Hopefully we will not have to ever repeat it. At one time > the thought was to have the broad hbase community vote on the logo but > getting your PMC just to agree on a small set of contenders was like > pulling teeth; painful all around (engineers and design == not such a > good mix). May you all forgive us for keeping the decision committee > small. > > We'll roll it out in the next day or so. > > A new website redesign is also on its way. Hopefully that will show > up soon too. We'll keep you posted. > > Yours, > St.Ack > > P.S. Thank you to dezinden on 99designs for the winning logo > P.P.S Thanks to StumbleUpon for forking over the dollars to fund the > 99designs competition >
