The SpamAssassin Logo Contest

OK, we've been doing some thinking, and we think the SpamAssassin project needs a new logo to replace the creaky old one, especially now that we're about to release 3.0.0 as an Apache project. Here's the requirements:

• the main logo, for the website front page. the current logo is 421 pixels wide by 160 high, so something in that rough ballpark would be good.
  
• a high-res, printable version of that logo; at least 1000x380.
  
• (optional) a smaller button-style logo for sites running SpamAssassin ("Powered by SpamAssassin" is suggested as the text or theme), about 90x30.
  
• we want something that feels right for the project.
  
• we'll need the source; either SVG for vector images, or XCF or PSD for pixel images (PNG if really unavoidable), a scalable vector format is optimal as the source format.
  

• the winner would have to be happy to assign rights to the image over to the ASF so it can be used freely by [SpamAssassin], permission given to use it in books, on merchandise, etc. Authorship, however, is preserved -- and we will credit the designer in the \[http://spamassassin.org/full/3.0.x/dist/CREDITS CREDITS\] file in the distribution and on the website. (This is performed using the ASF's Contributor's License Agreement; see http://www.apache.org/licenses/ for details.) \\

• Entries are accepted from everyone, and you can submit as many entries as you like.
  
• Everyone can vote, but the SpamAssassin dev team will choose the winner
  
• The contest is open until 6 Aug 2004.
  

Logo submissions

The community is invited to offer discussion/comments/feedback/etc.: LogoContestDiscussion

Submissions: If you have an idea to submit, please go to LogoContestEntries and append it to the bottom of the page.

For your reference, the original logo elements, including several closeup pics of the ninjas, the Apache feather, the original in Gimp XCF format, the ninjas with background removed in XCF, and the more recent revision in XCF, can be downloaded here: http://taint.org/saimgs/logosrc/ . They can be used freely (consider them under the same license as SpamAssassin itself).

(ps: yep, the text in the old image is just an old "make money fast" spam.).