Peter Gerwinski va escriure el Sat, 23 Dec 2000 03:06:57 +0100 :
Hi, everybody!
I'd like to throw in some thoughts:
- I agree that a logo must be minimalistic enough to look well in small sizes.
I agree too.
- I like the idea with goddess Europa very much, but I am afraid that "Europa riding a gnu" is too detailed for a logo. Anyway we "must" produce that piece of art. :-)
Yes, I'd love a poster or a mousepad with that image, or a T-shirt. If there are more like me selling that merchandising would be an easy way to raise funds.
By the way, about the feminist etc. debate. Could Europa be given the face (and the figure if we can) of Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace?. If I am not confused she was the first programmer in history. So there is a woman, who can represent the Goddess Europe, and she is not there as decoration like many adds but in memory of the first programmer. I hope this does not induce anyone to think of a bias toward the programming language Ada, that bears her name.
In fact I've found different opinions. Some say that the first programmer was Babbage, some that Ada had a clearer notion of a general purpose calculating machine, or computer. I guess this is not uncommon in history.
http://www.ex.ac.uk/BABBAGE/ada.html
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/lovelace.html
About the 12 stars... I agree that it may be too reminiscent of the EU, which is not Europe, so if there would be some other icon of Europe easy to recognize, it would be better, but I can't think of one (a map somehow just don't fits in, and the word "Europe", "Europa", or so depends on language...).
-- Xavier Drudis Ferran xdrudis@tinet.org