Hi,
From my view, the publicized part of the logo selection is open and transparent - the community can suggest logos, lawyers and the Eclipse fnd filter them and then the public votes for the best from the remaining options. Even most important rules like no association with Java lang, Java island, etc. were mentioned although could be stressed more
But Amelia is right that the filtering part at Eclipsee is very unclear - the private marketing mail list, documents without public read access and the fact that there's no marketing committee yet raise a lot of questions.
When we requested a private mailing list for the MicroProfile project for a strictly limited matter of discussing committer nominations, the Eclipse foundation strictly said no. I have now very mixed feelings about the ee4j private marketing list - did the official rules change? Or is EE4J more privileged than other projects at Eclipse? I don't think that we want to send this message and I advocate for going open at all times unless there are clearly explained and acceptable reasons not to.
Ondro