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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#262626">I’m personally on the sidelines, but I do like the logo & color scheme
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>2019-06-20 [Q2] [W25] [Thursday] at 00:25:18<br>
<b>To: </b>James Cole <james@openstack.org>, "rust-vmm@lists.opendev.org" <rust-vmm@lists.opendev.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Rust-VMM] Rust-VMM Logo Concepts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 19/06/19 20:05, James Cole wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After our last email exchange, I decided to scrap a majority of my<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">concepts because some were too similar to Ubuntu’s mark and others were<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">a little too generic. While the epicyclic gear idea generally seemed to<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">have the most potential, gear icons have come to represent very<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">unspecific things like system settings or unrelated things like bicycle<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">shops and manufacturing. A gear might also introduce confusion between<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rust-VMM and the Rust programming language, which uses an R inside a<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">gear as its primary symbol. It seemed like a worthwhile exercise to try<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">something different. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One problem with any iconographic representation of this project is that<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">the functionality is too complex to distill into a simple visual symbol.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I emailed Andreea Florescu for some advice and further explanation about<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">the project, and she suggested thinking about Rust-VMM as a sort of<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">collection of puzzle pieces.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After a lot of iterations, I came up with an R icon that is constructed<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">from puzzle pieces. It is simple, easily recognizable, and doesn’t<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">depend on the functionality of the project to make conceptual sense.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve mocked it up in a few different ways to show how it could live on a<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">shirt, sticker, and as a GitHub avatar.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would love to get your feedback on idea in the attached PDF and if you<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">think something like this could work. The PDF is also available online<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">here.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/jtpywxlqecfu7o2/Rust-VMM_LogoConcepts_R2.pdf?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/jtpywxlqecfu7o2/Rust-VMM_LogoConcepts_R2.pdf?dl=0</a>> Please<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">let me know your thoughts.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I like it. :)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Paolo<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
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