Re: New Logo For GNOME.Asia Summit 2015

[Oliver Propst <oliver propst gmail com>]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Estu Fardani <estu jogja linux or id> wrote:
> Hi all.
Hi, good initiative. I very much like the simplicity of the design.
The GNOME text its very bold, and I'm curious what font its using?

> I prever use brown one.
Yeah the brown one looks nicest to me to.

> About the logo.
> It symbolized "Gunungan" from Wayang.
>
> Wayang is a Javanese word for particular kinds of theatre. When the term is
> used to refer to kinds of puppet theatre, sometimes the puppet itself is
> referred to as wayang.
> Performances of shadow puppet theatre are accompanied by a gamelan orchestra
> in Java, and by gender wayang in Bali.
I see cool.

> "Gunungan"  in shadow puppet is in the form of cone, which symbolizes human
> life.  The higher level of the knowledge he has, and the older his age,
> human has to be conical (which called GOLONG GILIG in Javanese culture) -
> the  unity of soul, feelings, thoughts, will and work in our life – to be
> closer to the creator – the God.
I would be very careful about including any religious symbols as they
may be upsetting for some people.

-- 
-mvh Oliver Propst