Talk:Ada Programming/New Picture

New Picture
There has been some discussion about the Logo being a bit old. Now I have received some alternatives which I would put to discussion:


 * http://www.niestu.com/wiki-logo/military-1.jpg
 * http://www.niestu.com/wiki-logo/civilian-1.jpg

--Krischik 19:12, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * What license would have these images? They should be GFDL or under the public domain. They are nice, although they do not scale very well: when zoom out they will look a bit confusing. It would be good to have the source composite images for future enhancements, or for translation into other languages (You guessed, I'm thinking about the Spanish wikibook). ManuelGR 19:41, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * I created the montages, and gladly put my own work in the public domain. However, the source images were downloaded randomly from the net, and many of them are no doubt copyright by their respective owners.  The law on such "sampling" seems rather vague, though I would not recommend commercial use of the images.  I welcome contributions of freely-usable versions of the objects, and would be happy to re-create the montages using them.  I made the images the same size as the banner image on the C++ wiki page, which Martin pointed me to when we originally discussed them.  I do have the original GIMP *.xcf files, if you'd like to substitute parts, like the text.  --Caracal


 * Great job! I prefer the civilian one: IMHO the montage is better and it is also politically correct. But, don't you think the vehicles are very small? --suruena 20:23, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I have always liked these two "classic" logos, specially the second: I don't know whether they can be freely used, but if there are more people that want any of these images as the new logo we could write the authors. --suruena 20:09, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/.image/adalogo-new.gif
 * http://sigada.org/logos/


 * I like them too, although I would slightly prefer a logo specific for the wikibook. Some variation on that theme would be good. ManuelGR 21:57, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Some variation of what logo? Of the second one (SIGAda Ada Letters' logo )? I suppose we have to request permission to make any change to any of those two logos. --suruena 08:59, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * I meant a variation on the theme common to those logos, i.e. to create a new logo from scratch but using the same concept, a ship orbiting around a globe. You don't need permission to do that. ManuelGR 20:57, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Although Ada is very well known for being used in embedded systems and education, I think is also used in very large and complex applications for workstations. And in my opinion we're agree that Ada can (and should) be used in far more applications, like desktop applications (anyway is a true multipurpose language). Maybe the logo should show those areas to promote it. And Caracal, I'm sorry: to talk is cheap, but I don't known what to add to one of your logos to reflect this change :-) --suruena 08:54, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons would be a good source of images for a totally GFDL or public domain composition. Check for example http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Technology ManuelGR 19:11, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

-- Check these two images, might be good: http://extra.shu.ac.uk/nrc/section_3/pioneers/byron.html http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/victoria/ref/ps_cps_cd3_047.html I myself like the current image better than proposed one, but thats only my opinion. If you find first image to be acceptable, I will try and find larger image. Just post here, as I'm new to this wiki stuff ;-) Both are surely public domain, as they are from first part of 19th century. About logos, well IMHO these two military-1.jpg and civilian-1.jpg actually portray only one use of Ada - embedded system development.

New Picture: Ada Mascot
I've used the new Ada Mascot picture in the first page of the book. I think it provides a better look for the book. Lady Ada has still a prominent space in the first page, where her name is mentioned. If nobody is against this, I plan to replace the image of her in Template:Ada/Navigation so the new look is applied to all the pages. --ManuelGR (discuss • contribs) 13:51, 21 July 2018 (UTC)


 * I'll change now the picture. Given that there was previous consensus in replacing the former picture and that the now one is both more modern and related to the Ada community, I think it won't raise opposition. But please, if you are against it, don't restrain yourself to comment. The change can be reverted in any moment. --ManuelGR (discuss • contribs) 11:22, 22 July 2018 (UTC)


 * I've changed the picture again for two reasons:
 * In order to have an own logo for the wikibook. This has been done using the colors of Wikibooks' logo and adding "Ada Programming WIKIBOOK" as legend
 * The Ada Mascot seems to be not specially appreciated, but I think there is nothing out there more appropriate. At least, I think this new color palette improves the aesthetics of the image, although that is subjective, of course.
 * --ManuelGR (discuss • contribs) 19:00, 7 April 2022 (UTC)