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Please REPLY TO THIS EMAIL so we know what people think. We want to choose a final logo out of these 4 designs. Nacho On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Jacob Maes <jacob.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think I voted the exact opposite to everyone else in this thread. > > I don't want anything to do with a butterfly. The metaphor is even further > removed from the Samsa story than a cockroach, so I think we should give up > on that. I don't want a mascot; we're not building a university football > team. And as animals go, the only slower one I can think of is a sloth, so > I don't feel a butterfly says "scalable stream processing". This, combined > with my preference to eschew the color red for logos, puts the red > butterfly last. > > The blue butterfly is a little more abstract and formal looking, but still > a butterfly, so that is second to last. > > The other 2 are very close, in my opinion. > > The one with the circles is reminiscent of orbital loops, which gives me > the feeling of scale. It also has the dots at varying places along the > lines, which to me conveys the different proportions of input/output stream > sizes/TTLs. And the cyclical shape could also be used for animations > portraying the concept of "reprocessing" > > The one with the "S" dots reminds me of the Kafka logo without the lines. > If the lines are the streams and the dots are processing nodes, then I > think it's clever for the Samza logo to be a "negative" of the Kafka one. > That's not to say samza is any more related to Kafka than it is; but if the > Kafka logo says "streams" then to me this Samza logo says "processors" > > My 2 cents. > > On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:05 PM, Ignacio Solis <iso...@igso.net> wrote: > >> You're making me feel bad for linking that one! :-) >> >> I don't see it as a maze. To me, that one is like circles that turn, >> representing the processing. Like cogs on an engine. The little >> circles are like the messages. The concentric circles are like the >> streams. >> >> The red butterfly is my second favorite. >> >> Vote note: >> >> Once we close voting we'll look at the actual results. The way the >> ranking gets calculated it you don't vote for a design at all, that >> vote does not get factored in. It assumes you have no opinion. So if >> somebody votes 5 stars on A and 1 start on B. And second person only >> votes 5 stars on B, then the ranking would be A-5 stars, B-3 stars. >> (or something along those lines). So if you only vote on the 5 star >> ones, you're missing your vote on the ones you don't like. >> >> So, once we close, we'll see how people voted. >> >> Nacho >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Yi Pan <nickpa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Really? The one with the maze on the left currently is top one? I can't >> > relate to that either. My favorite was the logo w/ Taiji symbol. Since >> that >> > did not make the top 4, I am voting for the red bufferfly one, same as >> > Navina. >> > >> > -Yi >> > >> > On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Navina Ramesh >> <nram...@linkedin.com.invalid >> >> wrote: >> > >> >> I prefer to have open discussions in the official mailing list or JIRA >> >> since it is an open-community. It also helps track the discussions. >> >> >> >> Fwiw, I am in favor of the red themed butterfly design because: >> >> 1. Knowing the origin of the name "Samza" (from Gregor Samsa character >> in >> >> "Metamorphosis"), it isn't very far-fetched in terms of relating stream >> >> processing to some kind of transformation. Butterfly is probably the >> >> prettiest insect to associate with "metamorphosis", without giving the >> >> impression of a bug :) >> >> 2. Red theme ties it with the current logo, although we can improvise on >> >> the gradients. >> >> 3. We can have a "mascot" , instead of an abstract symbol. >> >> >> >> One comment on the butterfly one - it seems to have only 1 antenna. >> >> >> >> -1 for the dots only logo. It feels like a color-blindness test :D >> >> -1 for the blue-based logo - it is just not relatable and it's an >> extreme >> >> change from the current one. >> >> >> >> I couldn't relate to the circular one. What are are trying to >> portray/imply >> >> here. That we are a bunch of disconnected links? >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> Navina >> >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Ignacio Solis <iso...@igso.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Vote directly at design crowd. But feel free to leave comments here, >> >> > maybe you can try to persuade people or argue for your favorite. :-) >> >> > >> >> > Nacho >> >> > >> >> > On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Navina Ramesh >> >> > <nram...@linkedin.com.invalid> wrote: >> >> > > Hi Nacho, >> >> > > Do you want us to vote on this mail thread or directly at design >> crowd? >> >> > > >> >> > > Thanks! >> >> > > Navina >> >> > > >> >> > > On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Ignacio Solis <iso...@igso.net> >> >> wrote: >> >> > > >> >> > >> Hi folks. >> >> > >> >> >> > >> After some feedback and culling, we are down to 4 candidates. >> Please >> >> > >> vote on your favorite designs. We will be able to make minor >> >> > >> modifications to the selected logo as we talk to the designer. We >> can >> >> > >> always have changes in colors or fonts. >> >> > >> >> >> > >> http://www.designcrowd.com/vote/apachesamzalogo >> >> > >> >> >> > >> This poll will stay open for about a week to collect all votes and >> >> > >> comments. >> >> > >> >> >> > >> For completeness, the relevant JIRA is this: >> >> > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SAMZA-1111 >> >> > >> >> >> > >> Cheers, >> >> > >> >> >> > >> Nacho >> >> > >> >> >> > >> -- >> >> > >> Nacho - Ignacio Solis - iso...@igso.net >> >> > >> >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > -- >> >> > > Navina R. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > Nacho - Ignacio Solis - iso...@igso.net >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Navina R. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Nacho - Ignacio Solis - iso...@igso.net >> -- Nacho - Ignacio Solis - iso...@igso.net
