proposed Python logo

[Steve Holden]

Michael Tobis wrote:
>>Not that I'm disagreeing, but how to you rate "resonance with the product"?
> 
> 
> Hmm, I'm not a marketing professional, but this is would I would do
> with my focus groups:
> 
> Ask people familar with the product to name what they like about the
> image, and what they like about the product, and look for analogies
> between them. Ask them what they dislike about the image and the
> product, and minimize overlap.
> 
> (The main thing I dislike about Python is that the documentation is too
> sketchy. It's very unclear what the official logo represents. So
> another strike against it; it reminds me of the confusion I often face
> on making use of an unfamiliar module.)

As opposed to, for example, Apache's feater, which immediately says ... 
er, er, ... ?

Anyway, none of this is intended to discourage you, I think it's good 
that people are still interested in improving Python's image (as am I: 
see http://squidoo.com/pythonology).

regards
  Steve
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