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Offer HN: Free logo design for an open source project

154 points by fairpx ↗ HN
At http://www.fairpixels.co, we help ambitious projects look less sucky through mainly logo and brand design as well as other design services.

We love open source, so we launched www.logodust.com a while ago and started open sourcing our own unused logo designs.

Today we want to expand our open source efforts and design an awesome logo for an Open source project that one of you is working on for free.

Here's what to do:

1. Pitch your open source project in the comments and add a URL to your website/github

2. The most upvoted project by this community, 48hours from posting this, wins the free logo design service.

3. Make sure we can contact you by having an email address on your website or your profile

Looking fwd checking all of your open source projects!

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jcbeard
The RaftLib C++ library (and eventually with other language bindings) aims to bring heterogeneous parallel programming to the masses. We get rid of any and all explicit thread operators, by allowing users to build applications using C++ iostream-like operators. Using our library you can build applications that are as or more performant than you could build yourself with pthreads, but with only a few lines of code. It's portable to Linux/OS X (windows support is coming).

Project Page: http://raftlib.io GitHub Page: https://github.com/RaftLib/RaftLib Wikipedia Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaftLib

Email is on my web page: http://jonathanbeard.io

Vote for me! We need a better logo!!

Thanks for reading. If you like it, please contribute. We're rolling out user space threading right now, next project is to build back in accelerator support.

jcbeard
Thank you! Really like mine. As luck would have it, the distributed daemon I haven't released yet is called "oar" so it fits perfectly :).
antouank
Great work! Thanks for sharing your unused work.

My side project is a HN reader. (yeah, I know) https://hack.ernews.info

Some parts of the back-end are open source, and I intend to rewrite the front-end in Elm and make it open source as well.

Maybe you want to try and make a more "modern" version of that classic "Y" logo? So far I just used some principles from Google's material design, and a free icon set. I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible, especially for mobile users.

Happy to hear any comments/advice on the design.

marklmc
Amazing offer, thanks for the opportunity!

LentilDI is an ES6 Dependency Injection framework that aims to:

- reduce the boilerplate in wiring stuff up

- reduces the complexity of managing the ordering of dependencies.

- make testing components easy and transparent

Github: https://github.com/magicmark/LentilDI

It's a hobby side project at the moment, but it's well tested and any assistance/feedback would be great!

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unices
I like to propose Ledger (http://ledger-cli.org), a command-line double-entry accounting system, which is account and currency agnostic, featuring filtered reports, budgeting, forecasting, time-keeping, a Python module, and much more.
atmosx
Once you go ledger you never go back!
msangi
Thanks for posting. You made me discover ledger and it's great
linuxlover2
I really enjoy the ease of plaintext accounting. (h)ledger rules!
ftfish
Botwiki (botwiki.org) is an open-source catalog of "friendly, useful, artistic online bots", and tools and tutorials that can help you make them.

I started this project shortly before the recent hype around bots, and it focuses mostly on the "indie" side of bots and botmaking, with things like Monthly Bot Challenge (which is currently on hold, but resuming hopefully soon), badges (using Mozilla's Open Badges), and soon, botmaking workshops.

Project's GitHub page: https://github.com/botwiki/botwiki.org

Valodim
K-9 Mail, the single largest open source E-Mail client on Android, is in dire need of a new logo!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsck.k9

Related info, I have been working on PGP/MIME support in K-9 full time since January. Most of that work is already merged on master, and is going to make it into a release very soon!

giancarlostoro
Although I'm not part of the project so I can't speak too much for or against a specific design choice, I certainly hope if the logo gets redesigned that it still features K-9 from Doctor Who in some variation, that would be nice. Not a deal breaker, but I immediately know the mail client by the K-9 logo.
desdiv
What's wrong with the current logo? It looks great!
Valodim
It really sticks out in the launcher, next to a pile of material style icons it just looks... old
dmd
"It really sticks out in the launcher" seems like a pro, not a con.
max0563
Coffer is a containerization platform for the minimalist. We are focused on creating a straightforward platform for developers who need to work in isolated development environments without the port forwarding and various other complexities that come with other platforms.

https://github.com/Max00355/Coffer

Thanks for doing this

ashitlerferad
DebConf17 is looking for a logo (2 days left for proposals):

https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf17/Artwork/LogoProposal...

The Debian long-term security support project is looking for a logo. Other Debian related projects are looking for icons:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/RequestArtwork

Tangentially related, the Debian release team is looking for release artwork for Debian stretch:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Artwork/Stretch

jeanlucas
Really endorse this one, Debian project is giving to the community for years and deserve giveback :)
zlatan_todoric
Being a Debian Developer I can't recommend enough to artist to join the project and help with its visual identity.
electricant
The Debian project really deserves this opportunity
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Spare_account
How do you tell which is the most upvoted comment? Do you see comment scores? I don't.
cusspvz
I don't have totally sure, but I think the comments are arranged by upvotes.
mashlol
I don't think they are, there's often comments at the top that are posted x minutes ago where x < 10. I don't think posts that new could have that many votes. There's probably a weighting factor comparing votes to recency, maybe other factors too.
slazaro
Off-topic (sorta): Is there any easy way to find out about this kind of open source design offers? I think I might be interested in trying some and I didn't even know all these existed.

How would I find out about more of them in the future?

linux-modder
Opensource project pages and most Open Source centric / leaning blogs are good sources for info on these sorts of things.
derekp7
Snebu (http://www.snebu.com, https://github.com/derekp/snebu), the Simple Network Backup Utility, is a snapshot-style agentless backup system for anything that supports GNU Find and Tar. It supports local and remote backups, compression, and maintains a backup catalog in a database (sqlite). It will eventually support encryption, cloud and tape storage, and direct backup of KVM virtual machines.

I was thinking of having a logo representing a gear shift shown in reverse (backup = reverse). But lately I was more thinking of a logo in the style of Dr. Seuss character.

jaltekruse
Open Notebook is an application for helping math teachers create content for their classes. It is designed to be extremely easy for non-technical users to pick up in just a few minutes. The application allows creating documents for print, or in the case of classrooms with students that have computers accessible at home, the application doubles as an interactive environment for students to complete their work for digital submission.

http://opennotebookmath.com

linux-modder
@jaltekruse, reach out to me at the email on my profile, I am starting up similar stuff and may have some cross population ideas / leads
jaltekruse
@linux-modder would be great to exchange ideas. I see a public key on your profile but no e-mail. Feel free to send me a message at the address listed on my project homepage. developers AT opennotebookmath DOT com
hrjet
gngr[1] is a browser that champions privacy. It is a complete written-from-scratch project, and not just a wrapper around existing layout engines.

Our current logo and website design, if you can call it that, is a developer created, few days effort. We would be very happy with some professional design help.

Notes:

* gngr is short for ginger, the spice.

* The theme would be "spicy, but not shiny".

[1]: https://gngr.info and https://github.com/uprootlabs/gngr

theantonym
netboot.xyz (https://netboot.xyz), uses the iPXE project to network boot Operating System installers and utilities from quick and easy to use menu.

I have no logo today but would love to see what you might be able to come up with.