On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:31:05PM +0100, Guenther Fuchs wrote: > Hi there, > > on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 8:04:50 PM there was posted: > > VW> This seems to become a logo contest... ;) > > Looks like ;-) > > VW> I suggest to start a regular logo competition with a fixed > VW> submission date for all drafts, ... > > Good idea, and I guess this would bring it up to the best results. > > If Herbert agrees, I (as the "initiator" of this thread, but maybe
go ahead, as long as the logo thing does not add to my todo list, I'm totally on your side :) > someone else too?) would also call out a small price in form of Amazon > (or whatever) credit for the winning three and also a "top 10 logos > voted by the community hall of fame" page to honor the best 10 logos, > which also takes them for free download and usage under GPL (or > whatever appropriate license, IANAL). > > VW> a defined submission process (by email/HTTP upload/etc.) > > For that I would offer a email to maybe myself and put them online on > the "muh" server, adding a vote script from date of "last entry date" > up to one week, so there's a clear schedule as well for that. > > VW> rules for a ballot committee (certain persons? an open community > VW> voting? opoll on the ml?) > VW> and the aspects to assess, etc.. > > I'd suggest a first "community vote" and later a top-10 "committee" > choosing the top three out of the 10. > > VW> I would recommend a 4-stage process: > VW> > VW> 1. Open community poll, every person may elect its 3 favorites and > VW> gives reasons, why he/she chose those 3 drafts. > > Yes and no to that - I'd rather think a closed poll/voting with > showing results only upon end of votes will make it easiest to enable > anonymous votes without easy ceating upon "my logo is not on top" > results ;-) > > VW> 2. The top 10 logos are published and get in extensive review and > VW> public opinion, especially also for legal reasons such as > VW> trademark right or evident similarities with other logos or > VW> artwork. This should be done by the whole community. > > Okay. > > VW> 3. A chosen committee assesses the top 10 logos in respect to defined, > VW> weighted common criteria (personal view on layout, symbolism, recall > VW> value, uniqueness, known possible legal problems, etc.) in consideration > VW> of the results from stage 2. > > VW> 4. The results of stage 3 are evaluated, if the choice is not clear cut, > VW> a second open discussion on the top candidates may be initiated and > VW> results be evaluated by the committee again. > > Not too complicated? I'd rather let "just" the top-3 choice up to the > "jury" - and would guess a little more who to place into it ;-) > > VW> [5. We have a logo.] > > VW> So the question would only be how to choose the committee and how many > VW> members it should have. Persons could either be proposed and elected by > VW> the community or the maintainers pick up persons or you take the hall of > VW> fame people or whatever you can imagine... ;) > > I would prefer "propsal and election" - and for me it has to be clear, > that neither of the arts is to be in the jury. everything in this direction has my full support, as long as I do not have to spend time on it ... I'm more than willing to comment on the proposals but the decision should be done by the community best, Herbert > -- > regards 'n greez, > > Guenther Fuchs > (aka "muh" and "powerfox") > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver