Re: Tarsnap logo contest

[Jim Apple <tarsnap@jbapple.com>]

"tarsnap" is an anagram of "spartan". How about a Spartan? They were
reliable and secure and serious, right?

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
> Hi Tarsnap users,
>
> Tarsnap needs a logo.  Some people think that it has needed a logo for a long
> time, but I've decided this need is now urgent: As of an hour ago, Tarsnap is
> a Silver sponsor of the FreeBSD Foundation, and this means their donors list
> will include a logo instead of just a name... or rather, would if Tarsnap had
> a logo.
>
> I'm completely useless at anything artistic, so I'm hoping a Tarsnap user can
> come up with something good.  Consequently, I'm launching today a Tarsnap logo
> contest, ending on October 31st.  If you submit a logo which I decide to use,
> you win $500.  In the event that nobody submits a logo I like, I'll take the
> $500 and launch this as a contest on 99designs.com; but they take a large
> commission, so I'd prefer to pay someone directly, and I figure that Tarsnap
> users are more likely to know what Tarsnap is all about than random artists on
> 99designs.
>
> I'm looking for a logo which I can use:
> * In the top left corner of the Tarsnap website,
> * As a favicon for the website,
> * On the @tarsnap twitter account, and
> * As a 128 x 128 or smaller logo to put onto the FreeBSD Foundation donors
> page (and for any other open source projects Tarsnap sponsors).
>
> Obviously these images don't need to be identical; if the logo contains a
> graphic plus the text "Tarsnap", the favicon might be the graphic alone, for
> example.  I think for most or all purposes all I'd want to have is a PNG, but
> you get bonus points if you can provide something scalable and tell me how to
> create PNGs from it on-demand.
>
> I have no idea what a good Tarsnap logo would look like; it might be graphical,
> it might just be a typesetting of "Tarsnap", or it might be something I can't
> even imagine yet.  It should be consistent with the characteristics of Tarsnap,
> however; think "secure", "reliable", "serious", "unix" rather than "colourful",
> "fun", "web 2.0", "social", etc.
>
> Feel free to discuss this on the list, or to email me if you have any questions.
> I look forward to seeing what people come up with!
>
> --
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid