I personally love it! -Matthias
On 3/12/20 11:31 AM, Sophie Blee-Goldman wrote: > How reasonable of it. Let's try this again: > Streams Logo option 2 > <https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1WoWn0kF3E7dbL1FGYT8_-bIeT2IjfYORAm6gg8Ils4k/edit?usp=sharing> > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:34 AM Guozhang Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Sophie, >> >> I cannot find the attachment from your previous email --- in fact, ASF >> mailing list usually blocks all attachments for security reasons. If you >> can share a link to the image (google drawings etc) in your email that >> would be great. >> >> Guozhang >> >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 1:02 PM Sophie Blee-Goldman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Just to throw another proposal out there and inspire some debate, here's >>> a similar-but-different >>> idea (inspired by John + some sketches I found on google): >>> >>> *~~ See attachment, inlined image is too large for the mailing list ~~* >>> >>> This one's definitely more fun, my only concern is that it doesn't really >>> scale well. At the lower end >>> of sizes the otters will be pretty difficult to see; and I had to stretch >>> out the Kafka circles even at >>> the larger end just to fit them through. >>> >>> But maybe with a cleaner drawing and some color it'll still look good and >>> be recognizable + distinct >>> enough when small. >>> >>> Any thoughts? Any binding and/or non-binding votes? >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 1:00 AM Sophie Blee-Goldman <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Seems the mailing list may have filtered the inlined prototype logo, >>>> attaching it here instead >>>> >>>> On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 11:54 PM Sophie Blee-Goldman <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> > 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 >>>>>>>> <[email protected]> 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 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >> >> -- >> -- Guozhang >> >
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