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tobbe
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:05 am Reply with quote
User Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 274 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
The trapexit.org logo could be improved a lot. So bring up your Gimp
and create a new one. We could have a poll for the winner...I belive
this is possible with phpBB Cool

Cheers, Tobbe
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ernestjones
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:42 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 07 May 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Lindon, Utah, USA
I've got no artistic ability for creating a logo, so my contribution will have to be limited to brainstorming. Here's an idea for anyone out there that can draw: A number of salmon swimming in a circle.

The symbolism involved:
a) A SCHOOL of fish symbolizing where we gather to teach and learn from each other.

b) Salmon is a fish that's well known for its spawning habits, reflecting erlang's prolific use of process spawning.

c) The never-ending circle representing the fault tolerance that's designed into erlang.

Maybe they could be swimming around a lowercase 'e' to borrow from the logo on the erlang.org site?
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francesco
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:31 am Reply with quote
User Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 249 Location: London
Not only do we need a new Logo, but also suggestions for a better slogan. The winners will get an Erlang laptop backpack and an Erlang rosewood pen set.

http://www.erlang-consulting.com/images/erlangbackpack.gif

http://www.erlang-consulting.com/images/ROSEWOODFB.gif

The deadline is the end of July.

Francesco
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Mazen
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:04 pm Reply with quote
User Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 164 Location: London
ernestjones wrote:
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b) Salmon is a fish that's well known for its spawning habits, reflecting erlang's prolific use of process spawning.
...


Haha... sounds funny... I can only imagine how that could look like Laughing
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francesco
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:50 pm Reply with quote
User Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 249 Location: London
Reminds me about a post from Klacke which Carl Wilhelm had found on alt.com.ai (or similar). (Klacke and Carl are ex Computer Science Lab, where Erlang was invented).

It was about a scientist who took a fish out of an aquarium, operated away part of his brain and put the it back in the tank. The scientist soon noticed that the fish started swimming in one direction until it hit the glass. It turned around, and started swimming in the opposite direction in a very determined way until it hit the glass again. The fish was so determined and did not give up in its quest that all the other fish in the tank started following him, also banging their heads whenever they hit the walls of the aquarium.

This example was often used when discussing the Java hysterics which overshadowed many of Erlang's successes back in the mid 90s when Ericsson would not allow us to release the language as OS... So I have my doubts if a fish in the Logo would not be welcomed by the old timers. But you could try Smile

Francesco
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