Re: Logo Contest

The original voting was restricted for the dev team.  As you might guess 
from the email, it was less conclusive than I had hoped.

We may end up putting the poll up for the community, so they can be the 
deciding factor, but that has yet to be determined.

Derek Croxton wrote:

>Zackary Deems <[email protected]> writes:
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>>Well..  I need your help at this point.  8 people voted on a selection 
>>of 19 different graphics.
>>The 'winner' at this point received 3 votes.  As easy as it would be to 
>>simply declare that graphic the winner (especially since its the one I 
>>like best), I'm not comfortable making the decision to use that when 
>>much less than a majority of us have said we like it.
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>>Our logo is what people will associate with us.  When they see it, they 
>>will think of Ark.  That means it needs to be an image we can all stand 
>>behind.  So..  what should we do?  Shall we choose the top two vote 
>>receiving graphics and vote again?  Shall we just use the one with the 
>>most votes already?
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>>If I don't get any feedback on this.. I'll make a decision, but I want 
>>to give everyone an opportunity to voice their opinion.
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>Okay, I'm probably being an idiot, but where are the designs?  I found the
>contest announcement, but I haven't been able to find a link to the logos
>submitted, nor to anything about voting.
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>I would have submitted a design, but I didn't get the announcement until the May
>17th mailing, and I didn't have time to do it after that.  I feel strongly that
>ArkLinux should be a penguin in an ark (a la Noah).  That's what I thought of
>when I first saw the name "ArkLinux," and that's what I assumed the developers
>meant it to be:  a rescue for those lost in the flood of Linux.  I love Linux
>and have devoted many hours to learning it, but I still spend a lot of time
>confused because I can't figure out how to do something.  ArkLinux is the best
>I've found at minimizing my confusion.  None of the logos I have seen (by
>looking at individual posts on this newsgroup) have had any references to the
>word "ark," which is okay, but I think it would be better if the logo and the
>name were related.
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