Alex, I see your point. You are right. We need to find something more
appropriate. It's not urgent.
Maybe we should not use the 'miracle' pronunciation too. MRQL should be
pronounced M-R-Q-L, not miracle. It's not important to use this name and
may sound a bit silly and obnoxious.
Leonidas
On 04/04/2013 03:21 AM, Alex Karasulu wrote:
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Leonidas Fegaras <fega...@cse.uta.edu
<mailto:fega...@cse.uta.edu>> wrote:
What do you thing about this logo?
http://lambda.uta.edu/mrql-logo.jpg
Its the elephant-god Ganesha writing code using the Apache feather.
Leonidas
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<mentor-hat-on>
The use of religious, national, or political symbols are unacceptable
for a logo/mascot at the ASF. Think about it like this: would a logo
with Jesus healing a blind man (miracles being performed) be
acceptable? Using Ganesha is essentially the same thing. Please pick
something else as the logo/mascot figure. Stay away from religion:
it's not our business.
</mentor-hat-on>
I'll be retarded and fully spell it out for you guys. I'm not trying
to be a dick about it so please hear me out and understand why.
Personally I think it's cute and again kind of plays on miracles and
Hadoop's elephant motif. I see what you're trying to do/convey and I
appreciate it. This would be great if MRQL was not here at Apache. We
however are in the Apache Incubator and there are rules and "ways" we
have to follow. So unfortunately you must compromise and can't pick
these kinds of figures to use for a logo/mascot.
So I'm fine with Ganesha but I hate to think about having someone yank
the logo out of my hands (and be right for doing so) after I've
invested so much time and emotion using it for months or a year. It
would be a bummer.
Come graduation time it will become another contentious discussion
that will consume much time and energy.
Although untrue, just presume that I or someone else am insulted by
this as a non-Hindu. You are opening up a can of worms here.
Can you see this?
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Best Regards,
-- Alex
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