Comment 4 for bug 807100

Email back from Abi with lots of background about inspiration, which can hopefully be added here. In addition, had another idea sent by Robbie Williamson:

  http://ubuntuone.com/p/13yI/

who introduced it:

  "Here's something I just pulled together. It's a bit rough (used
  LibreOffice Draw), but trying to incorporate Ubuntu, Canonical, the
  complexities of service orchestration, and the core (or elemental)
  function ensemble serves in this orchestration. It's also by no
  coincidence that this logo resembles the atomic layout of oxygen, a
  critical element to sustaining humanity (i.e. Ubuntu) and to creating
  water vapor (i.e. clouds) ;). Anyway, just thought it would spark some
  more creativity around the logo we finally end up with."