The DataPortability Project was created to encourage vendors to allow users to take their data with them.

Existing Technologies: Invent nothing
+ Turnkey Reference Blueprints: Keep it simple and open - put it all in context
+ Simple User Story: Create the 'Intel Inside' brand

On Thursday, several blogs reported that Red Hat sent a cease & desist letter, claiming that the DataPortability logo was too similar to their Fedora logo:

Yesterday, Chris Saad (Co-Founder and Chair, DataPortability Project) blogged their response:

While the claim is arguable, we have decided that rather than dispute the issue, we would take the advice of community members to hold a Logo Competition to replace the current logo with a new one.

So I would like to announce the “DataPortability Logo Competition”.

Good choice! In case they didn't notice, here's one more reason: ReadWriteWeb's coverage included a comment from Alex Eckelberry that the logo is even more similar to that of Dataproducts:

(That's no surprise: combining "d" and "p" is an obvious logo trick; no explicit copying is required.)

Eckelberry gives some background at the Sunbelt blog:

(Dataproducts was actually a customer of mine back in the mid-eighties, and the lead engineer on our Ninja product used to work for them. While they are not widely known, they made printers for mainframes, and apparently now they’re in the business of ink refills.)