Logo

[justgage]

It sounds stupid but logos can actually help attract people to a project. I think it helps make the project seem like it has people that love and support it. However I have little expertiese in making a logo but I threw some together on http://www.squarespace.com/logo

Here's some ideas:

[Drup]

I have a proposal:

:)

[justgage]

Nice @Drup.

[anuragsoni]

I'm doing an issue cleanup and i'll close this for now as we don't have any web presence where we can display a logo 😄

[shonfeder]

I've been thinking about this lately too. I added a "built with opium" note on the footer of my personal site, and would have rather been able to use a logo in the link.

I'm doing an issue cleanup and i'll close this for now as we don't have any web presence where we can display a logo

Couldn't the logo at least be displayed on the README, and maybe linked from the docs? I think @justgage's point is that having nice pieces of polish like a logo can help build up the kind of momentum that can eventually lead to a bigger web presence.

re: the logo itself, I was thinking something thematic, along the lines suggested by @Drup (I actually think an abstracted version of his proposal could make for an excellent logo): an abstracted form based on the opium poppy:

I'd be happy to make a post on discourse to solicit proposals, and/or work on a logo myself -- tho I don't have lots of experience with logos myself (tho i did design and make the logo in my avatar). I'd also be happy to take point on making PRs to integrate the logo into what little web presence we have.

I think the main thing to decide is how we want to find candidates and/or select one.

[anuragsoni]

@shonfeder I am also not very good with artwork or desiging logos.

Although if something good comes out of a forum post, and its okay to use license wise, i'd be very happy to include it in the readme. I don't have anything against it, its just that I'm personally artistically challenged 😄

I'd be happy to let you take the lead on this, and i'm very open to contributions.

[anuragsoni]

@shonfeder I have reopened this so this can be a little more visible.

[smolck]

. . . as we don't have any web presence where we can display a logo 😄

@anuragsoni I’m willing to help make a website for the Opium project if that’s something you’d like to have (and link to in the README and project description). This is probably better discussed in a separate issue, but I want to get your opinion on it first (if you like this idea I can open a separate issue for it).

I think taking inspiration from sites like https://rocket.rs/ is a good idea, i.e. sites that are for other web frameworks. Note that we could either decide on a logo before we decide on the website’s theming so we can be consistent with the logo, or vice-versa. And the site would probably be static without need for a backend, so Github Pages should work for hosting.

There are a lot of other choices to make about this of course, and you may wish to hold off for now until there’s more written documentation on how to use Opium (to be hosted on the website). But I figured I’d ask ;)

[anuragsoni]

Note that we could either decide on a logo before we decide on the website’s theming so we can be consistent with the logo, or vice-versa.

At this stage i think i'd suggest that we should start by just adding documentation. We can change the theme, branding at a later stage. We already push content on the gh-pages branch. We can convert that to a jekyll powered site and start writing guides in markdown.

While i do agree that a logo and a nice website is good, but at the end of the day we also need good content.