On Thursday, November 20, 2014, Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> wrote:
> Am 2014-11-20 um 21:21 schrieb Michael Osipov: > >> My opinion on this: >> >> I do not like the connection between the owl and the word maven. >> While the owl stands for wisdom in the Greek culture as on the Greek >> euro coins, Maven is not of Greek origin. It is cleary of Hebrew/Jewish >> [1] origin. I see no connection here. I would rather see an old and wise >> man. > > >> Well one advantage the owl has is that there is no obvious gender - apart from my unconscious bias referring to it as Mr :-P - whereas the wise old man could be perceived as biased, agest, sexist or belittling to wise women (irrespective of age) For that reason I think an animal with no obvious gender differences is probably a better fit > >> >> I see no point on having 'v' in a different color, as if the word >> consists of two syllables. It is just a coincidence that the words >> 'maven' and 'version' have/share the 'v' combination. > > Well how do you feel about our currently colour differentiated 'a' We have a logo that has a single coloured letter, for continuity I believe we need to retain a single differentiated letter. I've played a *lot* with the word maven and my conclusion is that the v feels a better choice than the a... That it has a logic - in terms of v being short for version - however tenuous, makes it a winner for v3 of our logo! >> >> Unfortunately, I have artistic talent, so I cannot come up with a decent >> vector graphic for an old and wise man :-( > > > That was supposed to mean: I have no artistic talent... > > Yeah I don't think I have talent of the artistic variety but I am pleasantly surprised by the response Gunny the Owl is getting... You could always give it a try and see what you get Anyway, the real question is how would you feel if we hold a vote and decide to make my proposed changes? Would you feel betrayed and abandon us, or would you accept the verdict of the community? AND FINALLY... If we do vote to accept my creation, I am going to let the community decide on our mascot's name. Obviously I'd like it if we went with the French name I initially used as a placeholder: Couché-Tard... But a mascot for the community should be named by the community > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- Sent from my phone
