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Offer HN: Free logo design for an open source project

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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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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

Really endorse this one, Debian project is giving to the community for years and deserve giveback :)

Being a Debian Developer I can't recommend enough to artist to join the project and help with its visual identity.

The Debian project really deserves this opportunity

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!

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.

What's wrong with the current logo? It looks great!

It really sticks out in the launcher, next to a pile of material style icons it just looks... old

"It really sticks out in the launcher" seems like a pro, not a con.

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.

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 :).

Oh cool idea! GatsbyJS definitely needs one. All we've got right now is this crappy thing I throw together in Inkscape :-) https://twitter.com/gatsbyjs

Pitch: "Gatsby is a React.js static site generator. It transforms plain text into dynamic blogs and websites using the latest web technologies."

https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby

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.

Once you go ledger you never go back!

Ledger rules!

Thanks for posting. You made me discover ledger and it's great

I really enjoy the ease of plaintext accounting. (h)ledger rules!

HTML5 browser version of Freeciv: https://play.freeciv.org

https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web

Hey thanks for the offer. I wrote an open source Elixir application called Magnetissimo. It goes all over the internet, finds torrents and indexes them in a simple to use UI with one-click download links.

Elixir was paramount for this project's simplicity. I leveraged GenServer and the BEAM VM to effortlessly created different crawl queues that utilize all the cpu's cores to maximize throughput. It's really really fast.

The idea is that anyone can clone the project, run it, and get upwards of 400+ torrents indexed per second immediately. Your own personal kickasstorrents. Or host one for your friends and family.

Would love to add a logo to the project.

- Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/B9OFxTx.png

- Github: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo

- License: MIT

How do you tell which is the most upvoted comment? Do you see comment scores? I don't.

I don't have totally sure, but I think the comments are arranged by upvotes.

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.

Thats my guess as well. Thats why we chose to give it a 48 hour wait, so when the storm has settled, we can pick the top comment.

Scores are available via the API... you should use that.

Perfect. Tnx!

I don't think they are, if you mean this API: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/12372638.json?pri...

Maybe you could send an email to hn@ycombinator.com

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.

We don't have a logo yet!

Download an entire website from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader

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?

Opensource project pages and most Open Source centric / leaning blogs are good sources for info on these sorts of things.

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

WebAssembly(wasm) needs one https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/112

Please let it be Zookeeper!

https://zookeeper.apache.org

I don't think they're looking for a new one but every time I see that logo I think they should.

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

@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

@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

http://mozilla.org apparently need one

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!

Approach0 is willing to try a new logo design.

https://github.com/approach0/search-engine

Appeoach0 is a math-aware search engine. It is about to publish its first source-code release very recently.

vmprof could use a good logo

vmprof is a platform to understand and resolve performance bottlenecks in your code. It includes a lightweight profiler for CPython 2.7, CPython 3 and PyPy and an assembler log visualizer for PyPy.

recent updates https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/08/pypy-tooling-upgrade-j...

docs https://vmprof.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

github https://github.com/vmprof

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.

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

ZoneMinder, an open source video surveillance system. I recently redesigned the website, but that was pretty easy compared to a logo.

https://zoneminder.com & https://github.com/ZoneMinder/ZoneMinder/

The contact form on the website works, but the email in my profile is probably the better option.

Thank you!

We are currently building the Charme API specification, a JSON based API format that allows to build RESTful and RPC APIs, with support for result streaming and synchronous as well as asynchronous communication.

We just finished the core spec and are currenrly working on protocol specific specifications and the core extensions. A lot of work, so that we hadn't any time to think about a logo (only a temporary one, to not to be a Twitter egg, see @CharmeAPI).

Would be great if we could get a professional logo this way! More info: charme.org

Thanks!

I work on Tasks, a GPLv3 licensed to-do list for Android. It is based on the source code of a popular app that got bought out and shut down a few years ago.

I have no design chops and the app doesn't really have any branding.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tasks

https://github.com/tasks/tasks

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

Mathics, a free and open source Mathematica interpreter is looking for its first logo.

We're planning to release a 1.0 in the next few weeks and really need a logo to accompany the release.

http://mathics.github.io/

Dokan Library (think FUSE for Windows) needs a new logo for their upcoming 1.0.0 release. https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/issues/243

https://ohsloth.com/

Ohsloth is an open source copy and paste manager that aims to provide contextual actions based on snippet content.

It is still super early but it definitely could use some design love!

We've been looking for a logo for some time! :)

https://github.com/thestonefox/SteamVR_Unity_Toolkit/issues/...

VR need love !

My open source Vlc remote is pretty ugly. Can I nominate it to get a better logo? Source @ https://github.com/nicolasbrailo/VlcFreemote

Just getting started on paddock: Up and Running development environment built with `parse-server` and `docker`.

https://github.com/nutcore/paddock/

http://cropme.ru is a great app for instant screen sharing, still using stock logo. The project is free, used by a lot of people and for sure opensource

My project is in big need for a nice logo and a Mac dock icon http://github.com/danielravina/headset

Thank you!

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.

It would be great to have a logo for bash3boilerplate.sh

Please post the results in an update when you can! (=

Both Diplomat (github.com/wearefarmgeek/diplomat) and Postie (https://github.com/johnhamelink/postie) are looking for logos.

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