FWIW, I have a contrarian perspective on this one. Here's my 2 cents: I'm -1 for having for our logo to do anything with a butterfly.
- Samza and Kafka are separate top-level projects. I do not think the connection to Franz Kafka's novel on "metamorphosis", and the fact that a salesman named "Samsa" in the novel was transformed to an "insect" should dictate our logo. Agreed, the butterfly is a cute insect remotely relatable(?) to stream processing via a convoluted story. - For a choice of a mascot, I'd much rather have something that signifies scale, sturdiness or swiftness instead of a cute butterfly :-) - The 2 other non-butterfly logos at-least have a "node", "stream", "edges", "graph" like feel which I like. Thanks, Jagadish 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 > > > -- Jagadish V, Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
