Re: New Logo Discussion

From: René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-07-18 01:42:10

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 8:36 PM René Ferdinand Rivera Morell
<grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 6:50 PM Joel de Guzman via Boost
> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/18/24 3:49 AM, René Ferdinand Rivera Morell via Boost wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 2:42 PM Robert Ramey via Boost
> > > <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > >> On 7/17/24 11:59 AM, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:
> > >>> Hi. It is CppCon 2024 season, and the C++ Alliance is working on letting
> > >>> people know all the new and exciting things happening in Boost. We're doing
> > >>> this with Boost labeled conference shirts, and a beautiful brochure. You
> > >>> can see a draft of this promotional piece here (note: work in progress):
> > >>>
> > >>> https://cppalliance.org/pdf/Boost-Brochure-CppCon-2024.pdf
> > >>>
> > >> FWIW - I much prefer the current logo which was developed by community
> > >> inclusive process with many submissions and designs.
> > > It wasn't. The logo picked by the community in that process was never
> > > used. What is currently used was the result of private design between
> > > the Boost Steering Committee and the artist that "won" that logo
> > > contest.
>
> > That is not correct. I was one of the major proponents of that logo contest (if not
> > spearheded it).
> > And I am not a member of the Boost Steering Committee. That contest was public and was
> > discussed in the Boost list. It is NOT a private design.
> >
> > Here's part of the discussion (I do not have time to search all):
> > https://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost//2005/03/81416.php
> >
> > You can see clearly I was asking for votes.
>
> I did not claim the logo contest was not community driven and resulted
> in a community choice. I would know, as I submitted 11 designs in that
> context. What I claimed is that the **current** logo was not chosen by
> a community process. As the **current** logo was NOT the winning logo.
> The winning logo (actually four) was a single, or trio, of stacked
> cards (see attached). And as you can see it is very different from
> what we have now.

Trying this again because the attachment was too big. :-( See pair of
individual images.

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