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

[Cherie Yang]

Hello all,

I agree that organizing a public submission period would be a great idea.
I'm not too fond of the idea of morphing the current logo, as the lambda
and Y complement each other so well (lambda and fixed point combinator).
One possible alternative is to write "common lisp" underneath the image -
Just an idea.

Could someone please forward me the reported stylesheet issue? I may be
able to make a fix.

Thanks,
Cheryl Yang

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Dave Cooper <david.cooper at genworks.com>
wrote:

>
> 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 <max at mr.gy> 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 logos at common-lisp.net”).
>>  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. :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> My Best,
>
> Dave Cooper
> genworks.com, gendl.org
> +1 248-330-2979
>
>


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