[Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

[Sebastian Sylvan]

I am very shortly travelling abroad for several weeks and will not have
(reliable access to) a computer, but isn't this a task for one of the
haskell web-apps people (HSP, HAppS, Turbinado, etc.) to show us once and
for all why *their* library is better than the competition? :-)
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:

> Would you be willing to set up a little online voting system (or do you
> know of one) so we can implement this?
>
> Assume there'll be < 10 candidates.
>
> -- Don
>
> sylvan:
> >    2008/12/21 Paul Johnson <[1]paul at cogito.org.uk>
> >
> >      This suggests that the current effort to find a new logo for Haskell
> >      needs to go back to the basics.  Its no good expecting consensus on
> one
> >      of the suggestions because there are too many options and everyone
> has
> >      their favourite.  Nothing will attract a majority of the community.
> >
> >    I agree with this, which I why I would propose using Condorcet-voting.
> >    Personally I find the current logo horrendous. I think it's ugly and
> >    intimidating at the same time. I don't really care too much which one
> of
> >    the proposals should win, just so long as I can weed out some of the
> ones
> >    I really hate.
> >    Condorcet voting will pick a good compromise, where someone like me
> could
> >    just put all the acceptable ones at shared #1, and all the ones I
> dislike
> >    at #2., and someone with stronger opinions could flesh it out some
> more.
> >    The point being that the "least disliked" logo wins out. Maybe nobody
> will
> >    be happy, but hopefully most people won't be deeply unhappy with it.
> >    It would be a shame if there's lots of votes that are spread out over
> a
> >    large group of fairly similar logos that are good, and then a crappy
> one
> >    wins out with 6% of the vote because there weren't any others like it
> so
> >    the votes for that "style" weren't spread out over multiple entries.
> >    Wikipedia:
> >    [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_voting
> >
> >    --
> >    Sebastian Sylvan
> >    +44(0)7857-300802
> >    UIN: 44640862
> >
> > References
> >
> >    Visible links
> >    1. mailto:paul at cogito.org.uk
> >    2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_voting
>
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