Fritz Ruehr
Now that the new year is upon us, I suppose we must decide how to decide* on the new logo for the Haskell site. I'm not sure what the protocol and procedure for voting and tallying should be, but see below for a suggestion. (* a higher-order decision, very appropriate)
If you haven't seen the page on the Wiki with proposed new logos, be sure to go there and take a look (but recall that submissions are now closed):
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_logos/New_logo_ideas
I want to thank Don for proposing the contest and everyone who contributed logo designs or modifications. As the designer of the last "official" logo, I think this new crop is terrific, with many suggestions that are more professional-looking and sleeker than the old one: I will have a hard time deciding which one to vote for.
Without starting a war on the theory of voting systems, perhaps we should use a system which allows for a certain amount of secondary (etc.) preference to be expressed?
Step 1: Crunch down the size of proposals by factoring out common themes (eg. all the >\= logos count as one) Step 2: Determine the winner by polling preferences, same-level preference (ambivalence) allowed (eg. place 1 for logos C and D, place 2 for A and place 3 for B) Step 3: Re-open contest, accepting submissions _using_ the winning logo, in the categories a) colour schemes[1] b), official shapes[2] c), font[3] to go to b), d) layouts of b) + c) Step 4: Repeat step 2 for every category of step 3 Step 5: Announce the new buzzword-compliant branding and hand over a t-shirt to the one who wrote code to apply colour schemes to logos for displaying step 3. Obviously, we need to know the winner of step 2 to completely define step 3. Did I miss anything? [1] coloured, monochrome and b/w [2] shape details[4] vs. (coloured and monochrome vs. b/w) [3] not forgetting its licence [4] like whether or not to completely connect that > and \ to a lambda -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited.