Stephan Wiesand wrote:

> Would it be possible to recreate the SL4 logo, with just a modified 
> nucleus (presumably C14 like all the other "atom like" ones, since C12 
> is hard to do due to lack of symmetries, although a radioactive isotope 
> might constitute a potential PR hazard)

Well, since the half-live of C14 is 5,700 years, I think we're probably 
safe.  Would that Scientific Linux 6 should last so long!

> and an additional electron on 
> each of the inner orbits? That would be my favorite SL6 logo!
> 
> I agree with much of what you say below. And I actually like #10 - but I 
> just can't get used to seeing four electrons on the same orbit ;-)

Think of them as "shells" instead.  I was initially thinking of trying 
to use sp^3 hybrid orbitals for the outer four electrons, but that's too 
fine a detail to try to represent in something that's supposed to be 
scalable to a small size.

What might be a notion is to select one simple, standard, iconic _logo_ 
for Scientific Linux as a whole, and then for each release have 
_patches_ (overloaded meaning here) that can be more detailed.  Think of 
the various NASA programs: I believe (though if someone has better 
knowledge, correct me) each program had a patch for the program as a 
whole (Apollo, Space Shuttle, etc) and each mission then had their own 
individual mission-patch.  That way, we could have a simple, stable 
logo, (used for logos, icons, banners, headers, etc), and yet still be 
able to use the additional artwork that people are producing, and 
represent the other sciences (CD covers, backgrounds, etc).