When letting go the idea of an animal, I came up with the following:
Change the V of Maven into a funnel, feeding it with stuff (code,
resources, etc), resulting in an artifact.
Maybe with an assembly line full of jars below Maven.
It is probably easier to make the input abstract: circles, squares,
rectangles ...
Robert
Op Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:20:21 +0100 schreef Kristian Rosenvold
<kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com>:
I think the association-work around what maven /is/ is a great way to
approach a logo contest elsewhere. I have worked with some great graphic
designers in my time, and the kind input the good ones want are typically
related around your thoughts/feelings around the product rather than
which
particular animal you prefer, which is a bit of a secondary kind of input
along with all different kinds of other constraints/ideas (the boss
prefers
blue).
When I first encountered maven I had come to the realization that all my
ant projects were basically the same, and that there was no reason for
customizing
what was basically a standard process. So maven gives me associations to
a
mass-production line at a factory, rather than a tailor making individual
processes. Furthermore, the lifecycle amplifies the idea of a
conveyor-belt
mass-production line; all parts move through the same conveyor belt
process, stopping at
individual stages to get work done. I would almost be willing to think
of a
waterfall (Uh-oh...)
So it would appear to me that I'm not thinking of an animal at all !
Kristian
2014/1/9 Mark H. Wood <mw...@iupui.edu>
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:32:54AM -0600, Curtis Rueden wrote:
> All of the logos are OK, but none of them really symbolize anything in
> particular about Maven. IMO the best logos encapsulate the purpose of
the
> project somehow, either overtly, covertly or both.
Good point. I was associating with the name "Maven", looking for a
symbol of in-depth understanding of a specialized field.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/maven
So, what does Maven do? It passes unique source and object code
inputs through a standardized process, guided by an expression of the
relationships among those inputs, to assemble a well-specified
configuration of runnable code. What does that look like?
--
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu
Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient.
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