On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen@gmail.com> wrote:

JSF is nearly a decade old and still has no recognizable logo. While there are plenty of logos floating around for the different implementations and component libraries, there's no face for JSF itself. I've frequently come across this gap when putting together presentations or websites that feature JSF.

Thus, I pose the following two questions to the EG:

1. Do others agree that we should have a logo to represent JSF the framework?
2. Do you think we should host a contest for people to submit a logo? The alternative would be to get an EG member (JBoss, Oracle, Sun, an individual) to submit a candidate.

Why a logo for JSF? JSF is unique in that it competes against other web frameworks that are not part of the Java EE platform. We need someway to represent the spec when standing JSF up against Wicket, Tapestry, Struts, etc. We can't put the Mojarra or MyFaces logos in there because that's not the true identity of JSF.

Plus, the logo will be central to our effort to put together a launch page for JSF, which I'll mention in a later e-mail.

-Dan

ps. Hopefully we start a trend of specs including logos, even the platform itself, but that is a topic for another conversation.

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