On Saturday, 22 November 2014, Chris Graham <chrisgw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Stephen Connolly < > stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > On Saturday, November 22, 2014, Chris Graham <chrisgw...@gmail.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > Chiming in late here. Where does "Couché-tard" come from and what does > it > > > mean? How is it relevant? > > > > > > Couché-tard is the French nickname for an owl, literal meaning is "sleeps > > late" > > > > > So, if you don't speak French, or have a classical education, you're not > likely to get that. I guess, that if people are going to ask what is it, is > it a good logo? > > And it's franco centric, wouldn't the comments about the feature and native > amercian indians apply? As I said on the discuss thread, it's just the name I gave to my drawing, if adopted I'll let the community decide the name for the community's mascot... Jeesh wtf > > > > > > > > I read one of Stephen's earlier posts where the colourisation V was > > > questions. Stephen's response was the wrong one: Would you prefer the > A? > > My > > > response is: why colourise or stress any of them? I don't get the > > > significance. > > > > > > We have a logo that currently stresses the a for - from my perspective - > no > > reason at all. > > > > If we ditch all stress then we have little continuity of the existing > brand > > > > > The name is the brand, I doubt very much that anyone would place undue > attention on a stressed a or v. > > > > Thus for continuity I favour stressing one letter, and because this is v3 > > of our logo I choose the 3rd letter and v for version ;-) (real reason > is I > > think the v looks better) > > > > > Than a 'a', yes. Agreed. But are we trying too hard to be too cute too > cleaver? > > I don't think so... But this is what the discuss thread is for... Btw why are we having thus here and not there? > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Stephen Connolly < > > > stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com <javascript:;> <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > > > Stop calling Couché-tard "shotgun owl"! > > > > > > > > Does this make it clearer that it's a feather patch: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://people.apache.org/~stephenc/maven-logo-contest/maven-owl-4-large.png > > > > > > > > On 19 November 2014 21:19, Dan Rollo <danro...@gmail.com > <javascript:;> > > <javascript:;>> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Looks great! Before reading the comet below, I had the same > > “shotgun” > > > > > thought about the white chest patch. Would it help if the white > oval > > > > moved > > > > > up, and started at the scarf? (Basically the top of the oval hidden > > > under > > > > > the scarf?) > > > > > > > > > > Understood about the “design by committee”. > > > > > > > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Andreas Gudian <andreas.gud...@gmail.com <javascript:;> > <javascript:;>> > > > > > Subject: Re: New logo? > > > > > Date: November 19, 2014 at 12:49:59 PM EST > > > > > To: Maven Developers List <dev@maven.apache.org <javascript:;> > <javascript:;>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I like it. Cute but resolute birdy, and the font looks fresh and > > > modern. > > > > > > > > > > But wait - did someone shoot a hole right through the owl? You can > > even > > > > see > > > > > the shadow behind it. ;-) Maybe the patch in the middle could be a > > > little > > > > > darker, perhaps with a hint/tint of the surrounding colour? > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > <javascript:;> > > > <javascript:;> > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > <javascript:;> > > > <javascript:;> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent from my phone > > > -- Sent from my phone
