On Saturday, November 22, 2014, Mirko Friedenhagen <mfriedenha...@gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mfriedenha...@gmail.com');>> wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2014 10:42 PM, "Stephen Connolly" < > stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > < > > Java's mascot is called Duke... I don't think Sun trademarked Durk nor > have > > Oracle (yet... at least to my knowledge) > > Do not call for it ;-) > I like the owl B (the style reminds me of a certain butler, though :-) ) For any "cartoony" style mascot with black outlining of the colours, you're going to get a similar look. I didn't like the look when I removed the black outlines, and going monotone makes it hard to express the owlness My reason for favouring a cartoony style is that a small number of solid colours with black outlines tends to print on t-shirt etc much better than gradients etc. I like the http://cloudstack.apache.org monkey mascot. With it's skinny body it can pull off the two tone without needing outlining. I don't see a skinny owl working, certainly I could try removing the outlining as it might work with the blue, but IIRC you need to make the head bigger than the eyes to make that work and the beak gets lost... So to TL;DR I wasn't consciously channelling Mr J, obviously I am a long time contributer to that project, so my style of icons can veer "Tango"-ish, but I think the style works well for what we need... Ultimately the community decides in the end ;-) > Regards > Mirko > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Paul > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Am 2014-11-20 um 22:20 schrieb Stephen Connolly: > > > > > > > >> 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 > > > >> > > > > > > > > You obviously misunderstood me. I wasn't talking about genders and > nor am > > > > I tied to a man specifically. The point is, the owl is not rooted in > the > > > > Jewish culture as is the word/meaning of maven not rooted in the > Greek > > > one. > > > > > > > > Moreover, the mascot name might violate trademarks: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alimentation_Couche-Tard > > > > > > > > I don't want Apache Maven to be linked to a convenience store from > > > Canada. > > > > > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Sent from my phone
