I feel I need to chime in.
After 4 pages, this is beginning to feel like those paid commissions where the artist is stuck in hell because everyone (the client's girlfriend, his kid, his colleagues, his mother, father, uncle, grandmother, and his dog) is voicing their opinion and the artist presents 10 different designs and never deciding for one.
And btw the client is not paying until the artist presents them "something good" (meaning: something absolutely everyone he knows will love with no objection, which ain't gonna happen because taste is subjective).
It's not that their feedback is not valuable, but at some point the one who is supposed to make a decision needs to grab the wheel, make a decision and screw the people who didn't like the particular design he's going for.
If that doesn't happen the artist becomes stressed, burnt out and depressed, sends his client to f@#k off, and never comes back. And we're left with the old logo.
This phenomena is just not as noticeable here because people are doing this for free in their free time. But I can recognize it's burning people out.
Because in our Ogre3D team we're handling things democratically, we don't decide right away for a logo (mostly Murat, Phillippe and myself are into the logo and website stuff).
The truth is, we had chosen a logo for the website some weeks ago. It was the green variation of this:

However we had to remove it because the top bar in the main website shrinks when you scroll down. When that happened it looked terrible due to filtering/scaling issues. It was particularly bad with the border outline in the letters, but the face itself also presented aliasing in their diagonals which flickered when zooming out gradually.
We realized we needed an SVG logo (or a blurred PNG without hard edges / small lines; like the current version which is the old logo).
So rather than keep discussing which variations are better, it is far more important to submit the work in SVG (or other vector-based format that can be resolution independent). File size can't be larger than 10kb. SVGs containing non-vector-based embedded images won't be considered.
Most of the submissions have been really great. So please resubmit in SVG. We can worry about the details later. Those are subjective (has a ring, hasn't a ring, has horns, doesn't have them, looks too hipster, too modern, etc, etc).
I don't mean to offend anyone. Making art decisions is harsh (someone always gets offended), and I need to take the wheel because we're clearly moving in circles, getting nowhere with a flawed premise since we didn't lay out submission requirements as this topic was started by a well intentioned contributor who thought it would be cool to have a new logo and the topic just happened to get too popular.