Quoting Cathal Mc Ginley cathalmcginley@eircom.net:
At the risk of lowering the tone of this discussion, I must confess that the "gnu playing harp" logo reminded me of this recent news item:
OK, to make a constructive comment too:
My initial thoughts were that Cathal's second logo (the celtic lettering with raised 'F') was the most pleasing, but the brush-strokes one is definitely growing on me. Could we put the "Irish Free Software Organisation" lettering in some modern all-caps font? Would it make the whole thing too tall if we wrote it in two lines underneath the "ifso", taking the full width? Hmm. I'm no graphic designer and trying to describe this in text is non-optimal. Maybe I'll break out a pen and have a quick play.
Ben.