Re: New Logo Discussion

From: Joel de Guzman (djowel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-07-18 02:07:34

On 7/18/24 9:36 AM, René Ferdinand Rivera Morell 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.

I am confused. The winning logo is the beehive design by Zoltan Juhasz

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boost.png

I should know, I tallied the votes.

I have no idea what that design you attached is.

Regards,

-- 
Joel de Guzman
Cycfi Research, Inc.