Re: Request for comments: Design of common-lisp.net and Logo

Hi Cherie,

Have you been following this discussion?

What do you think of forking something a bit more CL-specific off of Guy
Steele's double-lambda logo (for CLF as well as for use on common-lisp.net)
(see below)?

Please advise,

 Dave


P.S. For those of you on clo-devel who don't know Cherie Yang, she is the
designer-in-chief for common-lisp.net.  The reported stylesheet issue would
also be of interest to Cheryl, if she hasn't seen that yet.




On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Max Rottenkolber <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 08:56:44 -0400, Dave Cooper wrote:
>
> >> > Second, I noticed that we (as in the CL community) don't seem to have
> >> > a language logo. There are a handful of Lisp logos but none that
> >> > exclusively say “Common Lisp”. I think common-lisp.net could use one
> >> > especially. I would be interested in “crowd sourcing” a logo for the
> >> > CL community by ways of a public poll. The question is, what
> >> > should/could be in a CL logo?
> >> >
> >>
> >
> > The rights to the logo currently being used at common-lisp.net
> (attached)
> > were granted to the Common Lisp Foundation by Guy Steele. You may
> recognize
> > this as coming from the cover of The Little Lisper.
> >
> > I realize this logo does not explicitly say "Common Lisp."
> >
> > How about morphing the upside-down lambda on the left into something
> like a
> > "C" (and leaving the other lambda alone, since this is already a form of
> > letter "L") ?
>
> I had the same idea in fact, but I realized that my graphics skills are
> not sufficient to produce an acceptable result. ;) I had the following
> idea: Why not organize a public submission period and then hold a public
> poll to find a canonical logo? I imagine it like this:
>
>  1. Provide a trusted public submission portal (e.g. “mail your
>     submission to [email protected]”).
>  2. Announce submission deadline on all public CL forums (mailing lists,
>     nntp, reddit, planet lisp, ...)
>  3. Hold a public poll on the submitted logos (again announce on all
>     forums)
>  4. Declare the most popular the new community logo
>
> I would volunteer to organize the process, and I think c-l.net is in a
> position to provide the necesary “neutral ground”. I think there are some
> benefits to this approach as we can outsource the graphical talent and
> get a result that the community decided on. :)
>
>
>
>


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My Best,

Dave Cooper
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