Re: GNU Prolog Logo

Benjamin,

thank you for your effort. I'm afraid this logo will be too close to 
emacs logo and thus confusing. Anyway, it would be nice if someone can 
"implement" it to see. Any volunteer ?

Daniel

Benjamin L. Russell a écrit :
> Last night, I thought about a logo for GNU Prolog, and came up with
> the following design:
>
> 1. Consider the present application logo for GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (see
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Emacs-icon-48x48.png).
>
> 2. Edit the cursive 'E' in the logo, and change it to the 'P' in
> Zapfino font printed on line 4 of page 10 of the following online
> paper:
>
> "There is no end: Omega and Zapfino" (article on Zapfino which
> includes comparison of typed text with and without ligatures as a
> flipbook)
> http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-2/tb77adams.pdf
>
> 3. Use this design as the new logo for GNU Prolog.
>
> Since I'm not a graphics designer, it would be difficult to use
> graphics design software to create the desired image.
>
> Could somebody on this mailing list who is familiar with graphic
> design possibly edit and post this logo on this mailing list?  I think
> it could possibly be a good counterpart to the cursive 'E' used in the
> logo for GNU Emacs.  This logo would be useful in symbolizing GNU
> Prolog, especially on Windows installations, and make the installation
> seem more professional, especially for Windows users.
>
> -- Benjamin L. Russell
>
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:37:53 +0900, Benjamin L. Russell
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> Actually, although I have participated in a logo election using the
>> Condorcet Internet Voting Service, I wasn't responsible for setting it
>> up.  However, I would assume that you could probably use it just by
>> following the instructions at the following Web site:
>>
>> Condorcet Internet Voting Service: Create a New Poll
>> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/civs/civs_create.html
>>
>> For more information, see the following Web site:
>>
>> Condorcet Internet Voting Service
>> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html
>>
>> -- Benjamin L. Russell
>>
>> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:03:33 +0200, Daniel Diaz
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I agree with Benjamin GNU Prolog deserves a nice logo !
>>> Joel thank you for your proposition. I'm obviously interested. Benjamin 
>>> proposed the Condorcet  voting service. I don't know it but it seems to 
>>> provide what we need. Joel can you investigate this solution (contacting 
>>> Benjamin who maybe knows it) ?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> Joel Bender a ecrit :
>>>       
>>>> Prologians,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Who would provide the server and set up the software?
>>>>>           
>>>> No promises, but I'm interested enough in participating that I am 
>>>> investigating providing it.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Could you please describe the required tasks for "managing proposals
>>>>> + vote" more specifically?
>>>>>           
>>>> How about a form that you can upload a proposal which would consist of 
>>>> a set of images, i.e., GIF, PNG, SVG, etc.  You would also enter your 
>>>> email address at the top of the form.  After clicking 'submit' you 
>>>> would be sent an email message confirming your submission with a 
>>>> hyperlink back to 'approve' it.
>>>>
>>>> The server would provide a page of images to click on.  Clicking on an 
>>>> image would vote for it, with the same email round trip to confirm the 
>>>> vote and make sure people aren't spamming votes.
>>>>
>>>> The Condorcet system looks interesting, and I will follow up with 
>>>> Andrew Myers on the implementation provided by the CS department (I'm 
>>>> in a different department).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Joel
>>>>         


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