[SGVHAK] [SGVLUG] Ideas for logos, promotional items?

[Braddock Gaskill]

That's awesome, Homan.  Thank your wife!

Can she put it under a Create Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
license so we can use it freely?  ( http://creativecommons.org/choose/ )
(or just declare it in the public domain).  She just needs to declare her
license option.

-braddock

PS - janewu.net is reporting an error.

On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:30:06 -0800, Homan Chou <homanchou at gmail.com>
wrote:
> My wife, Jane Wu, of Avengers fame (remember Hulk punching Thor and
> also Hulk tossing Loki around like a rag doll?  She storyboarded those
> scenes -- see janewu.net) came up with this logo for sgvhak.
> 
> She did research on what hacking was and picked up on this phrase from
> wikipedia, "[Hackers] originated in the 1960s around the Massachusetts
> Institute of Technology's (MIT's)", which she then found inspiration
> from the blocky letters in the MIT logo.  Instead of using red font
> color with the spot of gray, she opted for a black and yellow with a
> spot of white (inspired by a wasp) because she considers hackers to be
> somewhat aggressive, bending things to our will.  Then she fit in the
> nice circuit board background since I told her the 'H' probably stood
> for hardware.
> 
> I suggested that the 'SGV' part should be done in printed circuit
> board font style above the HAK 'chip', but she rolled her eyes at me
> saying that that would be too contrived.  So my contribution was to
> suggest a system prompt, to which she said,'what the hell is that?'
> 
> I said.. it's a dollar sign followed by 'sgv' ... but then a linux
> prompt '$' followed by another 'S' in sgv was confusing to look at.
> So we settled on more of a DOS prompt...(blah)... but I think it still
> looks nice.  The eye follows the prompt and the HAK really pops, as if
> invoked by the command.
> 
> 
> Homan