Hi Chris, On Wed, 2017-08-02 at 12:25 -0400, Chris Feyerchak wrote: > On Aug 2, 2017 12:53 AM, "Luca Coelho" <luca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 22:31 +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 09:20:32AM -0400, Chris Feyerchak wrote: > > > Hi Luis, > > > > > > I've heard positive feedback and no negative feedback on the proposed new logo. > > > > > > Could you go ahead and configure the wiki to use the new logo, please? > > > My account doesn't have the necessary permissions. The 135x135 pixel > > > raster is the size recommended in the MediaWiki documentation. > > > > Great, do you have a vector graphics representation of the logo? That > > would enable us to scale it at any time for anything. > > I like the concept of ageing Tux on something new like a hoverboard, but > the logo itself needs some work, IMHO. I can't really understand the > logo unless I chant to myself "Old Tux on Hoverboard... Old Tux on > Hoverboard...". > > -- > Luca. > > Honestly, I'm not picky about what we use as a new logo. > > The problem is that one day while I had the Backports wiki up, a > librarian happened to look over my shoulder and asked me something to > the effect of "Why is there a close-up of a penguin touching himself > on your screen?" Try as I might, I could not convince her that the > current Backports logo was not a high school-esque joke. Wow, I had actually never seen it like that! To me it has always looked as been quickly drawn by a nerd that doesn't have any sense of design (sorry Luis! :P) > I'm not interested in having that conversation again. I see your point. Now that you mentioned it, I can't see it in any other light. Heh. > I've previously sent links to this wiki to professional contacts, > including the director of engineering at a silicon manufacturer whom I > was trying to convince to maintain the backports of their drivers. I'm > uncertain whether they saw in the wiki what that librarian did, but > they didn't hop on the Backports bandwagon. Well, yeah, I agree that it looks amateur, but it would be silly if someone would reject a project just because of the look of a logo. > In the spirit of being constructive, I've already provided an image > that can immediately be substituted for the wiki's logo. Once with the > current wiki logo is addressed, and if there is sufficient interest in > using Old Tux on a Hoverboard more broadly, then I'll see what I can > do about vectorizing it. Sorry, I didn't mean to sound negative. As I said, I like the idea, but it's hard to see it in the current proposal. Or maybe it's just me, because I didn't see Tux "touching himself" either in the current one. > I'm also fine with trading the present logo for some other logo > (provided it does not bring the same concerns) or no logo at all. Again, I like the concept as is, but surely we should be able to make it look more modern. -- Cheers, Luca. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in
