+1 49 [Binding] -----Original Message----- From: Doug Arthur [mailto:dougart...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 6:38 PM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: [VOTE] Logo contest round #2
Hello thriving community! We have had a great Logo contest so far. There were a lot of votes, and a lot of discussion. All of the submission were great, and we truly appreciate the contribution of such great work. The PPMC members have been carefully dissecting what the next steps should be. This has been a difficult task on its own, as we don't want to offend anyone's great work and contribution. We also want to make sure we communicate effectively with the community, therefore we had some private discussions on how to proceed carefully and cautiously. With that said, the tallies are posted [1]. [2] #49: Total: 106.5 Pts Community: 83.5 * PPMC: 23 [3] #42: Total: 99.5 Community: 68.5 PPMC: 31 * [4] #40: Total: 65 Community: 63 PPMC: 2 There are more community votes for #49 over #42 by only ~15. While the PPMC members also had #49 in their top list, #42 came out on top, while #40 was not favored by PPMC. Since there is no clear winner between #42 and #49, we are conducting another round of voting for those submissions. So with that warrants a congratulations to Tomasz Maciag and Julien Brehier for their submissions and making it to another round. Overall we should all be extremely happy with the votes as #42 and #49 were both the top two choices for the PPMC and the community. A clear sign that the community and PPMC are in-sync. We passed an early and important test! And congratulations to everyone else that submitted a logo as well! With this round of voting, we're only going to have a +1 to which logo you prefer (#42 or #49). Remember, PPMC members votes are the final say, and ultimately, that will be the what final decision becomes, but the community votes help the PPMC members make their decisions, so get voting, and let us know which you like the best! With everything said, some of our discussions included concerns on how each logo represents the future of Apache Flex. One specific concern was how #49 appeared to some of the PPMC members, and feeling that some users could look at the logo as negative. Not saying at all that the logo truly has any negative context, but there are some concerns surrounding it. I don't want to spell them out, as to not give the community a new vision on what the PPMC members are seeing. Just take a careful and close look at which logo you choose, and choose wisely! Let the voting commence, and good luck to Tomasz Maciag and Julien Brehier in this showdown of the new Apache Flex logo! [1] http://people.apache.org/~dougarthur/apache_flex_logo_votes.xlsx [2] http://s.apache.org/af-logo-49 [3] http://s.apache.org/af-logo-42 [4] http://s.apache.org/af-logo-40 - Doug
