+1 Am Dienstag, 25. November 2014 schrieb Stephen Connolly :
> For anyone who has been living under a rock, here is the background > > Background > ========= > > I think everyone can agree that the site needs a reorganisation and a > rewrite. Users cannot find what they need, and the end result is that > people keep on abusing maven rather than having maven help them. > > Try as I might, I have been unable to motivate myself to do the > reorganisation with the current dated look and feel of the site... I am not > saying that picking a new logo and selecting a mascot will result in making > progress, but it can't hurt and I believe it will help > > Proposed changes > =============== > > 1. Change the logo font to Alte Haas Grotesk Bold with italics applied by > Inkscape > 2. Change the highlighted letter from 'a' to 'v' and replace the v with two > Apache Feathers > 3. Adopt the (currently unnamed) owl as our mascot > > Here is a link to the font: > > http://www.dafont.com/alte-haas-grotesk.font > > Here is a large version of the owl and the logo: > > > http://people.apache.org/~stephenc/maven-logo-contest/maven-owl-final-large.png > > A regular version of the own and the logo, e.g. a size suitable for use in > the top of the standard maven sites: > > http://people.apache.org/~stephenc/maven-logo-contest/maven-owl-final.png > > (Note that in all likelihood, the mascot would probably end up on the other > side of the title bar from the logo... and that is IF the mascot ends up on > the title bar) > > Here is both of those rendered in a site (as it can be helpful to see the > graphics adjacent to text) > > > http://people.apache.org/~stephenc/maven-logo-contest/maven-owl-final-context.png > > > Logo Rational > =========== > > If we do some searches for the Maven logo: > > > https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&q=maven+logo&oq=maven+logo > > > http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=maven+logo&go=Submit&qs=n&form=QBLH&scope=images&pq=maven+logo > > Our current logo, with a single highlighted letter stands out quite well > from the other "maven" logos, so keeping a highlighted letter and an italic > rendered font maintains continuity with our current logo. > > By changing the highlighted letter to the `v` and by using two Apache > feathers to create the `v`, we connect our logo back to Apache... we are > Apache Maven after all. > > The `v` is also the common short term for version (e.g.v3 is short for > version 3). Apache Maven puts a lot of emphasis on versions of dependencies > and plugins... you could say that versions are very important to Maven. > > The colours of the feather were changed to solid colours to match the owl > mascot's scarf, beak and eyebrows > > Voting rules > ========= > > Anyone who is subscribed to the dev or users list is eligible to vote. > > If you vote multiple times, only your final vote will be counted. > > The vote will be open until 1:00pm GMT on Wed 3rd Dec 2014 > > The vote is for all three changes as one single change. Partial votes (e.g. > for the logo but not the mascot, or vice-versa) will not be counted. > > I, as the caller of the vote, reserve the right to cancel the vote if this > vote is putting the harmony of the community at risk. > > If a majority of the PMC believe that this vote is putting the harmony of > the community at risk, then the PMC may cancel this vote (though if even a > small minority of the PMC were of that belief, I will more than likely have > cancelled the vote before the PMC would need to decide... I'm just stating > this FTR) > > The decision will be a simple majority, there will be no special veto > powers. > > +1: [ ] Change the logo to the proposed logo and adopt the owl as project > mascot > 0: [ ] No opinion > -1: [ ] No change > > Please only respond with +1, 0 or -1. If you want to discuss the proposed > changes please use a different thread. This thread is for voting only. > > -Stephen >
