I was wondering if we can change the color a little bit? The plain white of the bottom doesn't play well with the background. You know, Hadoop is a yellow elephant.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:37 PM, lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org> wrote: > Let's do it as long as we're not calling it a "fish". > > +1 > > > > ________________________________ > From: Stack <st...@duboce.net> > To: HBase Dev List <dev@hbase.apache.org> > Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 11:44 AM > Subject: Re: DISCUSS: We need a mascot, a totem HBASE-4920 > > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Nick Dimiduk <ndimi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Nicolas Liochon <nkey...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > +1 for the Orca. > > > Personally, I like this one: > > > > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12511412/HBase%20Orca%20Logo.jpg > > > > > > As do I. > > > > > My thought is that this thread is about taking on the Orca as a mascot. It > seems to be passing (apart from the 'in favors' here, we got another +1 > over in the HBASE-4920). My fear is that if we start discussing how the > mascot is represented, this thread will devolve into design by a committee > of engineers and we'll just go back to the impasse that had us shelve the > effort at adopting a mascot two years ago. So I suggest that we put up the > graphic that is in the head of this thread for now; it is a clean, > non-nonsense representation of the non-nonsense fish. Then let us bask a > moment in the fact that we now have a mascot and in a separate effort, work > on how we want to represent it*? > > You Nicks ok w/ this? > > St.Ack > * I see no reason to hard-code our mascot representation or logo for that > matter. Let them evolve as with any other aspect of this project. > P.S. That little red circle is too anemic IMO to use as a logo; is it even > clear it is an Orca (we can discuss in new issue?) >
