Good idea! What do you think would be a fair bounty? I'm thinking 5-10 stakes, and maybe we pick a short list and vote using the NXT AE or using a thread poll.

What's a fair bounty people? Let's decide asap, is 5 too little, is 10 too much?

Hi Kora
....that is still your name, is it?  At least for now 

I think that 10 stakes is a good bounty.
I also think that we should try to include people with that, that have not been 'drawn into' Ora yet.
Thirdly: let us acknowledge the participants in this thread. For instance: gvans came up with the idea and the first design of a starfish logo. I think we should honour that, even though we might not end up with his final design.

What do you think?

Pentamon

hi Purple!

from your four designs, I like this one the most. The colors are nice, and I think the human shape of the starfish works. Arms and head slightly up, that reminds me of an embrace...

Pentamon

Hi Anna!,

I see you also posted the tiny version of your design.  I nearly missed it, because your other submission is so big and a bit overwhelming for me: I feel that you have too many things in there, too busy.
Or, as the emperor said to Mozart: 'too many notes!'   

Here is your small design again: would you try to make it simpler, if you can?



Pentamon

Ora logo - second and final voting round!

PLease go here to vote:

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/697958.msg8688537#msg8688537

Pentamon

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Design guidelines for the Ora logo:

• The name will be Ora. Read the first post on the Ora main thread here on Bitcointalk.org: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/620518.0
  
• Ora, sibling of Qora, cousin of NXT, son of a Bitcoin, is part of a family of progressively more people-friendly crypto currencies.
  
• Ora is a starfish organization.
  Read this for inspiration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starfish_and_the_Spider  
  Here is a summary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nJ3JCDI4yQIN2O09DW6qApRhPrQXDj9wsxY-3jduOAw/edit?hl=en&pli=1
  
• Ora has a formal and public project plan. Ora is more than open source. The community drives it. It belongs to all.
  Ora Project Github: https://github.com/nioccoin/ora_project
  Here is the Ora distribution on NXT Asset Exchange: https://nxtforum.org/asset-exchange-general/asset-exchange-ipos-launch-day-listings!/msg73040/#msg73040
  
• The logo has to be readable on a very small size: Coinmarketcap or BTER logos are tiny: 16 x 16 pixels @ 32 bits per pixel.
  
• Please make it fit into a space with equal height and width. So either in a square, or round.
  
• Also, make sure to design in a transparency layer format of some kind, or at least have the ability to export it with transparency.
  As per our dev, nioccoin: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/675484.msg7868052#msg7868052  
• Colour themes: See nioccoin's post: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/697958.msg7973923#msg7973923
• Please submit logos here on this thread. It may be useful to present two or three options, and ask for opinions about which ones are preferred. Remember this is a dialogue.
  

Bounties will be 10 Ora stakes, divided between participants in a yet-to-be-determined formula...  I think that any participation should be recognized, that we should recognize good ideas and give the most weight on the final design, escalating from third to first place.


Time line: Please submit all your designs before 17 August 2014. After that, we all will vote, here in this thread. Voting will last two weeks, so final result should be available by 31 August 2014.


How to vote: Since NXT voting mechanism is not quite use-able yet, we will vote here in the Ora Logo Thread. Start by making a post that starts with "Here is my vote", followed by the three top choices that you deem to be the best, in descending order. Just go to the submitted designs, and copy the image links,  and post them in your voting post in descending order: Number 1, 2 and 3. If you submit only one option, that one will be counted in position three, so with the lowest impact. Feel free to motivate your vote, with some additional comments. Try to just limit yourself to quoting only the logo image, not quoting the rest of the original message, unless that is part of your motivation. You can vote any time, but only once. So if you plan to vote early on and then you find a better design that was submitted later, you have to go back to your vote post, and edit it, prior to the deadline of voting.


Voting mechanism: For various reasons, we will give a stronger vote to our artists. Votes by the designers, i.e. a person that has submitted a logo here, will count for two thirds of the total vote. (Designers may place one of the three choices to one of their own designs. The other two options have to be from another designer. If you submit only one design, it will be counted on the lowest impact level, number 3.) The remaining third of votes is made up by the regular commentators.  So you know what you have to do, if you want your vote to be having a greater impact  
(Kora, niocion, Mac Red, Fragora, DarkhorseofNXT and Pentamon have veto powers, but it is highly unlikely that they will need to exert that, since we have such a great process, and wonderful designs already)

Please let me know if you detect anything that can be improved.
Remember that I stumbled upon a Pot o' Ora, and I am happy to share these Ora

Thank you for participating.
Pentamon

Ora, you son of a bitcoin! lol

But yeah, Ora sound as good as Kora imo.

Honest opinion. I like the freestyle starfish. Remove the coin.

Yes, DarkhorseofNXT and nioccoin seem to say the same thing: let us fing a strong logo only.
It shoul be scalable. On the bottom end of the scale, it should be recognizeable in a 16 by 16 pixel size, see gvans original design.

Pentamon

Which one do you prefer:

Stark black:



small version:



or do you prefer some colour in there:



small:



Just keep the one you like in your reply.
Thank
Pentamon

OK, back to my growing library of rough designs...

Which one do you want to have the 'special treatment' ? 
Which colors do you like to see?



Pentamon