Am 2014-11-23 um 22:59 schrieb Stephen Connolly:
On 23 November 2014 at 02:53, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote:
Le samedi 22 novembre 2014 19:22:29 Benson Margulies a écrit :
I suggest that we ask Sally is there is any donated graphic design
assistance available. I suspect that there is.
+1
If somebody else wants to take a lead in that process then we might get
somewhere faster... I just want to get to the end game... even if Maven
doesn't find a use for my creation I will find some project to attach it
to! ;-)
On Nov 22, 2014 7:09 PM, "Stephen Connolly"
<stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Why I want a new logo and a mascot:
I think everyone can agree that the site needs a reorg and a rewrite.
+1
Users
cannot find what they need, and the end result is that people keep on
abusing maven rather than having maven help them.
Try as I might, I have been unable to motivate myself to do the reorg
with
the current LaF of the site... I am not saying that picking a new logo
and
selecting a mascot will result in me making progress, but it can't hurt
and
I believe it will help me.
+1, even if it puts a higher bar
I really don't care what logo or mascot we go with - yes I would be
flattered if the community chose one of my efforts - but at the end of
the
day, what matters more to me is that we *have* a new logo and a mascot
(or
something else to mix up the content visually)
I tried holding a contest... We didn't get very much contributions from
that... Though I welcome each and every one
The next idea was to see about hiring a processional designer...
Though to
do that we really need to write up a brief... At least if we want good
results... I did not get very far on writing up such a brief - in
truth I
do not know how to express what we want - so after much time, and with
a
new idea in my head I came up with this suggestion
thank you for new proposals: I know how it's hard to continue in one
direction...
I would like to put this to a vote, but I won't do that if the
community
will be harmed by such a vote... This thread is an effort to sound out
the
community so that I can have the confidence in putting this to a vote
starting with this discussion before trying a vote is really a good choice
By the way, I think I now favour D
in fact, to really understand the result, the view inside Maven site is
good,
since it show the mascott both at little and big sizes
atually, the violet colour in the eyes gives me strange impression: don't
know
if blue or grey would be better
How does green suit?
http://people.apache.org/~stephenc/maven-logo-contest/maven-owl-7-screenshot.png
and since "Couché Tard" doesn't seem to fit with english-speaking people
(which
have so much slang word :p ), I really like "shotgun owl" without showing
anything: that what happens with Maven = nobody whows you a shotgun because
it's really not the intend, but if you take things the wrong ways, you will
discover a shotgun we even didn't want to provide....
As I said, if my owl gets selected I will let the community decide the
mascot's name... seems that for this owl everyone wants to call it
"shotgun" ;-)
What is all that fuzz about "shotgun"? I do not get it, I am not a
native English speaker. A name, due the international audience we have,
should be easy to understand, not slang/colloquial, not offending,
interpretation-free.
Maybe we are better off with just a visual name revamp without a mascot...?
Michael
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