: I would like to give it a shot. Are there any solr logo success : criteria/requirements? Any hints or suggestions from community is welcomed. : Just close your eyes, start dreaming and send my couple of words about what : you see... I am all ears.
Other people who care more about the logo have already given lots of good feedback on things that should be kept in mind ... the only one i would question is that the logo need to look good at favicon sizes ... that tends to be really limiting. Even if the primary logo doesn't look good at favicon sizes (or in B&W) the important thing is that a cohesive "brand" can be established arround a logo (take for instance the apache feather with is long and horizontal, but can be rotated to fit diagnoally in a square favicon, or the existing Solr favicon which has thesame color palate as the Solr Logo and evokes the idea that you are looking into the sun). What a "Powered By" logo would look like is also something to keep in mind. : Also I found that the wiki mentions some : genesis<http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FAQ#head-6d74c2bb4171b0908a4695cbb24acd368a29dc06>of : Solar/Solr technology but still I don't understand if the relation to : sun : is intentional or coincidence. A little of both. As yonik mentioned once upon a time... http://markmail.org/message/sgxaz5nv5mapzw34 ...CNET had an interal product called "ATOMICS" which stood for "Apache TO MySQL In CNET Search" (it was a made up acronym to support the fact that people wanted to be able to say apps that used it were "Atomic powered"). When it was decided that there should be a Lucene based alternative, someone got the idea that it should be named "SOLAR" so you could have "Solar Powered" applications instead of using "ATOMICS" (CNET has a long history of puns in internal product/project acronyms) and it was backronymed to be "Searching On Lucene And Resin". When it cam time to open source "SOLAR" we had to change the name: 1) we couldn't have an acronym with "Resin" in it because it's a commercial product (and besides, Solr works just find with any servlet container); 2) there was some legal issue with the word "Solar" ... i don't remember exactly what, it might have been an existing trademark. I suggested we just drop the "A" and make the R stand for Replication (or maybe someone else had already suggested "Solr" and I just suggested what the R could be for -- i don't remember). Ultimately "Solr" was the final decision, mainly because it was short, passed legal approval, and allowed us to keep pronouncing it the same way in conversation -- but we droped the kludgy acronym. So yes: the relation tothe sun was intentional, but not for any good reason. Personally, I've always had a fondness for saying something is "Solr Powered" when people ask ... so I do think it would be nice to maintain a Sun motif. -Hoss
