On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 08:56:44 -0400, Dave Cooper wrote:
Second, I noticed that we (as in the CL community) don't seem to have a language logo. There are a handful of Lisp logos but none that exclusively say “Common Lisp”. I think common-lisp.net could use one especially. I would be interested in “crowd sourcing” a logo for the CL community by ways of a public poll. The question is, what should/could be in a CL logo?
The rights to the logo currently being used at common-lisp.net (attached) were granted to the Common Lisp Foundation by Guy Steele. You may recognize this as coming from the cover of The Little Lisper.
I realize this logo does not explicitly say "Common Lisp."
How about morphing the upside-down lambda on the left into something like a "C" (and leaving the other lambda alone, since this is already a form of letter "L") ?
I had the same idea in fact, but I realized that my graphics skills are not sufficient to produce an acceptable result. ;) I had the following idea: Why not organize a public submission period and then hold a public poll to find a canonical logo? I imagine it like this:
1. Provide a trusted public submission portal (e.g. “mail your submission to logos@common-lisp.net”). 2. Announce submission deadline on all public CL forums (mailing lists, nntp, reddit, planet lisp, ...) 3. Hold a public poll on the submitted logos (again announce on all forums) 4. Declare the most popular the new community logo
I would volunteer to organize the process, and I think c-l.net is in a position to provide the necesary “neutral ground”. I think there are some benefits to this approach as we can outsource the graphical talent and get a result that the community decided on. :)