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Matt is passionate about the design and development of usable languages for embedded control. You can some of his work at concurrency.cc, a rallying point for parallel programming on the popular Arduino platform. However, most of the time Matt keeps himself busy as a member of the faculty at Berea College.
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I'm with @roy.
1. You could play with the typeface, perhaps. The important dimension, in my eyes, is that it is a strong typeface that will show up clearly in print and on the web; T-shirts using this logo will "work." The owl does fit the "o" space nicely.
2. Although I agree with @roy that the owl isn't easily interpreted as an "o," it is an "o"wl, which might make it easier. I would ditch the circle, however, as it increases the size of the logo with a weak line that doesn't do anything for it in terms of strength. I'd consider a caps typeface in all cases, since it is an acronym? And, I still am not keen on the typeface.
I wonder: full caps, drop the "P" (add about 16 points compared to the rest of the typeface), and then elide the "rofessors open source summer experience" into the big "P"? As a trope, it then makes clear that the acronym means what it says underneath? Eh. Whatev. At the end of the day, we all wish we were cool enough to be designers, but the fact is, we're not. :)
3. No. Too weak. It might work if we were opening a modern, hip makerspace on 5th Ave where people had time to ponder what we were doing in there (and, we'd need some really spiff outfits to wear while we were haxxoring FOSS code), but my concern is that it wouldn't work on a T-shirt. I like the owl's fluff, though.
Excellent stuff. Although I think #1 is stronger in some ways, I like the playfulness in #2.