[Nix-dev] Logo improvement ideas

[Tim Cuthbertson]

If nobody authoritative wants to set up a poll, I can certainly do one :)
I'm a little bit busy at the moment, but as long as we're not in a hurry...

To prevent overwhelming people with options, and after letting these
stew for a little while, I'd be happy to limit choices to:

* shapes: just circle and hex. I think circle is strictly better than
"straight", and I think "slant" is too disorganised / unclean to be a
winner.

* colours: "feature" and "half". The plain versions are probably too
boring to bother with.

So that only leaves 4 proposals, across those two axis. I can include
more if people think it's worth it, but I don't want to overwhelm.

I've made a start here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oMKuPCIz5bmUokrN6mllYpIDH7cmVQTzuZAcUdGH1HM/viewform

Please DO NOT COMPLETE THIS POLL (until it's finished), I'm just
posting here to solicit feedback. I obviously need to populate the
rest of the images, but is there anything else we want to ask? Is
anything phrased poorly?

Is it OK to require a google login? I'm assuming everyone has access
to one, and it'd prevent the laziest attempts at skewing the results.

Cheers,
 - Tim.


On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Joachim Schiele <js at lastlog.de> wrote:
> On 09.09.2015 13:19, Oliver Charles wrote:
>> I'm in favour of the logo change, I think all the presented ones are
>> great candidates for a new logo, and also really like the half-hex
>> version. A poll sounds good, maybe we could use one of those online poll
>> services, and have NixOS tweet a link/have a blog post appear in the planet?
>
> sounds great, who does it?
>
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:37 AM Rob Vermaas <rob.vermaas at gmail.com
>> <mailto:rob.vermaas at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Perhaps someone can set up a poll or something and engage people to
>>     vote for it, to see if people prefer to stay with the old logo, or if
>>     a new logo is preferred.
>>
>>     Personally, I like the old logo better, but that's just my opinion :)
>>     (The new logo also looks nice btw)
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     Rob
>>
>>     On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Nicolas Pierron
>>     <nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com <mailto:nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com>>
>>     wrote:
>>     > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Guillaume Maudoux (Layus)
>>     > <layus.on at gmail.com <mailto:layus.on at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>     >> Tim has invested some time in making great logos, and everybody
>>     seems to like the hex-half version.
>>     >> It would be too sad to loose his job, so what is the next step ?
>>     >> Who is authorized to do such a modification ?
>>     >
>>     > I don't think there is any precedent. The last time was when we
>>     > settled on the first logo:
>>     >
>>      http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2009-October/003231.html
>>     > (and replies)
>>     >
>>      http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2009-November/003326.html
>>     > (and replies)
>>     >
>>     > I think the board of the NixOS foundation might have the last word,
>>     > based on the community choices.
>>     >
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