Mailman mailing list management announcements

Barry Warsaw | 8 Apr 2010 23:44

Logo contest voting is open!

Hello everyone.

Earlier this year, we announced the contest for a new GNU Mailman logo.  We
received over 30 entries from many talented artists, and we thank all of them
for their generous contribution.

The Mailman Steering Committee has narrowed the selection down to 5 finalists,
and we have identified a decent free internet voting site.  With that, I'd
like to announce the opening of the community driven poll for the new GNU
Mailman logo!

Vote here: http://bit.ly/cUpAA2

The poll will remain open until Friday May 7, 2010 at 2200 UTC.  Please
participate by ranking the logos from most favorite (1) to least favorite (5).
While the voting software will prevent double votes, I have confidence that
this community will also be good citizens and play fairly.  You will have to
enable JavaScript to properly interact with the voting site.

GNU Mailman is free software so of course you may forward this announcement to
other interested mailing lists.  We invite anyone in the free software and
open source communities to participate in the vote.

Thanks again to all of our great artists, and to you for your continued
support.  If you have any questions, please do ask.

Cheers,
-Barry
(on behalf of the GNU Mailman Steering Committee)

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Clytie Siddall | 16 Apr 2010 15:01

Re: Logo contest voting is open!

Sorry: I only saw this today.

On 09/04/2010, at 7:14 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> Hello everyone.
> 
> Earlier this year, we announced the contest for a new GNU Mailman logo.  We
> received over 30 entries from many talented artists, and we thank all of them
> for their generous contribution.
> 
> The Mailman Steering Committee has narrowed the selection down to 5 finalists,
> and we have identified a decent free internet voting site.  With that, I'd
> like to announce the opening of the community driven poll for the new GNU
> Mailman logo!
> 
> Vote here: http://bit.ly/cUpAA2
> 
> The poll will remain open until Friday May 7, 2010 at 2200 UTC.  Please
> participate by ranking the logos from most favorite (1) to least favorite (5).
> While the voting software will prevent double votes, I have confidence that
> this community will also be good citizens and play fairly.  You will have to
> enable JavaScript to properly interact with the voting site.
> 
> GNU Mailman is free software so of course you may forward this announcement to
> other interested mailing lists.  We invite anyone in the free software and
> open source communities to participate in the vote.
> 
> Thanks again to all of our great artists, and to you for your continued
> support.  If you have any questions, please do ask.

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Barry Warsaw | 4 May 2010 17:33

Re: Logo contest voting is open!

Hi Clytie!

On Apr 16, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Clytie Siddall wrote:

>I do have a question or two. ;)

:)

>In voting for the logo, I also consulted my daughter, an embryo graphic
>designer. She asked "What is the logo for? Where will it be displayed? Will
>it also be used as a program icon?" She definitely has a point or three
>there.

Definitely.  Initially, I want to use the logo to re-brand the website and
wiki.  I'd like to use the logo on the relevant Launchpad pages to tie all the
development resources together.  We will use the logo on the default new web
ui pages, and hopefully a scaled down version as a new favicon.  Mailman isn't
a desktop application so I don't see much opportunity to use it as a
traditional desktop program icon.

>It would be useful to have this information on the voting page, e.g. "This
>logo will be displayed on X and Y, and it will (not) be used as a program
>icon."

It would be, but the voting page is pretty limited and I can't do much about
changing it now that the vote is in progress.

>Only one of the logos was suitable for use as an icon, and it was the "M"
>one, which is otherwise quite unsuitable, since it doesn't show Mailman's
>main function: email. One icon was in the form of a badge, which might not

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