Matthias makes a good point about being careful not to position Streams as outside of Apache Kafka. One obvious thing we could do it just include the Kafka logo as-is in the Streams logo, somehow.
I have some unqualified opinions on what that might look like: A good logo is simple and clean, so incorporating the Kafka logo as a minor detail within a more complicated image is probably not the best way to get the quick and easy comprehension/recognition that we're going for. That said I'd throw out the idea of just attaching something to the Kafka logo, perhaps a stream-dwelling animal, perhaps a (river) otter? It could be "swimming" left of the Kafka logo, with its head touching the upper circle and its tail touching the bottom one. Like Streams, it starts with Kafka and ends with Kafka (ie reading input topics and writing to output topics). Without further ado, here's my very rough prototype for the Kafka Streams logo: [image: image.png] Obviously the real thing would be colored and presumably done by someone with actual artist talent/experience (or at least photoshop ability). Thoughts? On Sat, Mar 7, 2020, 1:08 PM Matthias J. Sax <mj...@apache.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Boyang, > > thanks for starting this discussion. I like the idea in general > however we need to be a little careful IMHO -- as you mentioned Kafka > is one project and thus we should avoid the impression that Kafka > Streams is not part of Apache Kafka. > > Besides this, many projects use animals that are often very adorable. > Maybe we could find a cute Streams related mascot? :) > > I would love to hear opinions especially from the PMC if having a logo > for Kafka Streams is a viable thing to do. > > > - -Matthias > > On 3/3/20 1:01 AM, Patrik Kleindl wrote: > > Hi Boyang Great idea, that would help in some discussions. To throw > > in a first idea: https://imgur.com/a/UowXaMk best regards Patrik > > > > On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 18:23, Boyang Chen > > <reluctanthero...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hey Apache Kafka committers and community folks, > >> > >> over the years Kafka Streams has been widely adopted and tons of > >> blog posts and tech talks have been trying to introduce it to > >> people with need of stream processing. As it is part of Apache > >> Kafka project, there is always an awkward situation where Kafka > >> Streams could not be campaigned as a standalone streaming engine, > >> and makes people confused about its relation to Kafka. > >> > >> So, do we want to introduce a customized logo just for Streams? > >> The immediate benefit is when people are making technical > >> decisions, we could list Streams as a logo just like Flink and > >> Spark Streaming, instead of putting Kafka logo there as it is not > >> literally a legitimate comparison between processing framework > >> and messaging system. Should we do a KIP for this? > >> > >> Boyang > >> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEI8mthP+5zxXZZdDSO4miYXKq/OgFAl5kDVQACgkQO4miYXKq > /Og2Hg/+IOjjz3yrvHOz/p/Qbi9hXDK+GZT6Ixzk2HrrpMiLAAZs6WrNGQMwwI6a > qrPdMRLKA45F53wwMXBqhLYe0O0vOIRSur3pef8UuTVEkbFstY6dNzduPjTXK4vV > Ahzb+pu1lZsF+n2DbMuXWvkmvMAsSrKQXbH58rA7I4qx7Zr6g1a/KL2b2oOoo3kI > 4x3PJfG6oLSnQHwkJxmM79ZjM7MLZh0d8cRqb7Oudy5MJiMzHY+Rm5aTu4nhPgRr > cLxA8kz1PbGPboxjD9/ZGuZJMWfVnvY1wJcOp5UnOUs4kX5uYDyWw1sKIn3DcnW8 > YVzoto0syCHTAdbl89H2fxhJbtVp8JSxbBx9AW8mdgLOLsYRZGHZ1cbdJ3h4NkeE > xTPTuTptQbhdcjbSVX6F0q+h1hiPCU5PKqcR12zGVTBI4rOGkhPIhDdnIti5Qp2e > MQ1Urh/tWCfwiJZbOyjZ9Tz/2vbUBB4kzUI9DxwWpD15jgMuN3JfqFwcwSIm7NrY > jHcM3UB2QlUt+uymU78xjy6er2AFiGrfL7UXeFHzzVIWBU3fdw4wqpuIuWjFhL3t > NWnAvamXOc7kfE4VXQ8igoRUVDZ8xCCqNvVoaJZ1cWboY/Cfk+4sgd9QnDMZN9jU > bzRpghQp3R93Vp5FH4L9z478uuh8DFM2/+6pqqapd9efydGtKrU= > =OFBs > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
