Re: Questions about the logo contest

[James Mitchell <jm...@apache.org>]

On Sep 6, 2006, at 7:22 AM, Randahl Fink Isaksen wrote:

> Three questions:
>
> 1. Are we not supposed to wait until September 19 before voting?
>

No, there's no harm in voting early.


> 2. On the contest page it says "Everyone is welcome to vote,  
> however, only binding votes will be used to determine the winner."  
> - could anyone explain what that means?
>

The point of all this is to get a consensus of what we (as a  
community) would like to see for our new logo.  The reason that only  
committer votes are binding is because (my opinion here) .... because  
we all know who the committers are.

What I mean is, let's say we held a vote and anyone and everyone was  
allowed to vote.  What's to stop someone from registering 50 gmail  
addresses and sending in his/her votes?  Whether it was an author of  
one entry or not, it still isn't fair.  While I hate to base my logic  
on a foundation of mistrust, I know for a fact that there are several  
individuals out there who would do just that.  Therefore, the Shale  
PMC encourages everyone to discuss and vote on their favorites and  
while a user vote might not be binding, it can be influential.  I  
mean, if 20 people *really* like a particular entry....chances are  
pretty good that I'm going to go and take a second look.

Keep in mind that all of the entries should be cleared through ASF  
legal@ and pr@ (public relations) before any winner can be  
announced.  I'm about to send that right now.

Also, to all the authors, we will need the source file(s) for these  
entries, preferably Photoshop (.psd).



> 3. Are the contributors themselves supposed to vote?
>

Sure, all are welcome.

> Randahl
>
>
>
> David Delbecq wrote:
>> Here is my user vote :) 1st choice: Walied Amer {81} 2nd choice:  
>> Michael Ameduri {15} 3rd choice: Jacob Hookom {3} 4th choice:  
>> Santy {77 } 5th choice: Norbert Busch {90} Daniela Kolarova a écrit :
>>> Shale logo contest vote: 1st choice: # {Entry #} 2nd choice: #  
>>> {Entry #} 3rd choice: # {Entry #} 4th choice: # {Entry #} 5th  
>>> choice: # {Entry #}

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