I'll create an issue and promote the contest as soon as I have some time for that.
Benedikt Send from my mobile device > Am 02.08.2014 um 08:22 schrieb Duncan Jones <dun...@wortharead.com>: > >> On 19 July 2014 05:04, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 7/18/14, 1:55 AM, Benedikt Ritter wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> the Apache Commons project currently does not have it's own logo! We are >>> simply reusing the Apache logo with the feather. I even remember a guy from >>> legal say, that they don't like it very much when projects reuse the Apache >>> feather for their logo. >> >> Huh? Httpd just has a feather and their name. Our current logo is >> the feather *plus* the name with the little tm thingy. Seems >> perfectly legit to me as a logo. >> >> That said, this is a do-ocracy, so anyone who wants to propose >> something different, more power to them. >> >> Phil > > I wanted to use the logo last year [1] in an advert on Stack Overflow > to drive more developers towards Commons projects (see [2] for the > 2014 H2 competition). Because of the usage of the Apache Feather, > there was debate over whether the Commons logo could be used without > further permission. In the end I opted for safety and emailed our > trademark folks for some input. Sadly I received none and the advert > idea died. > > I would be in favour of a new logo that we can use freely. > > Duncan > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/jgs4ucfmu2orlcia > [2] > http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/260377/open-source-advertising-sidebar-2h-2014 > >>> >>> The log4j2 project did a very successful logo contest where they collected >>> ideas for a new logo and finally picked the best proposal [1]. >>> >>> How about we start our own logo contest for commons? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Benedikt >>> >>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-316 >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
