Artistic arguments as I have seen, usually takes a lot of time. So since there are a lot of choice, being a mahout'er, I would like to use an algorithm here. Maybe a preference weighted scoring. (scores of 5,3,2 for preference 1,2,3)
Write down top 3 choices from https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-335 so choose from 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 or vote against all of the choices and say I would like to stick with the old logo We will then find out the winner and I can work on finer details and possibly make it before the release get cut I will start with my choices 1. 4 (blue person, yellow elephant with blue text and grey border) 2. 3 (blue person, yellow elephant with blue text and green border) 3. 5 (blue round-figure, yellow elephant with blue text and green shade) Robin