[Haskell-cafe] How do we decide on the new logo?

[Fritz Ruehr]

Now that the new year is upon us, I suppose we must decide how to  
decide* on the new logo for the Haskell site.
I'm not sure what the protocol and procedure for voting and tallying  
should be, but see below for a suggestion.

(* a higher-order decision, very appropriate)

If you haven't seen the page on the Wiki with proposed new logos, be  
sure to go there and take a look

(but recall that submissions are now closed):

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_logos/New_logo_ideas

I want to thank Don for proposing the contest and everyone who  
contributed logo designs or modifications.
As the designer of the last official logo, I think this new crop is  
terrific, with many suggestions that are more
professional-looking and sleeker than the old one: I will have a hard  
time deciding which one to vote for.


Without starting a war on the theory of voting systems, perhaps we  
should use a system which allows for

a certain amount of secondary (etc.) preference to be expressed?

	(Uh-oh, here come Control.Monad.Voting.HareSTV and  
Control.Monad.Voting.BordaCount and
	a hundred other variations, complete with back-tracking and  
trampolined continuations and ... .)


Once we have a winning design, we could perhaps award the designer(s)  
with a T-shirt or some similar item.
We have a small amount of CafeBucks (or whatever) accrued in the  
CafePress account, despite all efforts to avoid profit
(rather like avoiding success at all costs). In the past, these funds  
have been used to purchase courtesy shirts for a few
Haskell luminaries, at the discretion of the store proprietor.  
(Currently I think there are about $60 available.)


  --  Fritz (Ruehr)

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] How do we decide on the new logo?

[Henning Thielemann]

Fritz Ruehr schrieb:

 Without starting a war on the theory of voting systems, perhaps we
 should use a system which allows for
 a certain amount of secondary (etc.) preference to be expressed?

Give everyone 10 points and let every voter assign these points to his
favorite logos, where it is possible to give more than one of his points
to the same logo. (Or give every user one point and let him choose how
to divide this into fractions which can be assigned to logos. Or give
every voter any number of points he want and scale them to 1 afterwards.)

Another question is how to handle logos with variations. I think all
logos of one idea should be grouped and considered one object and the
favorite variant can be voted on later.

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