<div dir="ltr">Hi<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Anita Graser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anitagraser@gmx.at" target="_blank">anitagraser@gmx.at</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><font>Hi,<br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>Since the "final logo pick" thread is starting to get messy, I thought I'd start a separate thread for this issue. <br>
</font></div><div><font>If the PSC wants a design committee, I'd be happy to serve on it. I fully agree with Larry that it should be limited to 3-5 members. Will the PSC pick them? Do we need an election process?<br>
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</blockquote><div><br></div><div style>+1 from me for this. There is no election needed - the PSC member under which they fall can appoint the committee as needed. It would be good to include non coders in the mix because...well... developers are well known to be design morons (myself included) :-)</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Regards</div><div style><br></div><div style>Tim</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><font>
</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>Best wishes,<br></font></div><div><font>Anita<br></font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Larry Shaffer</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:larrys@dakotacarto.com" target="_blank">larrys@dakotacarto.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sat, May 18, 2013 at 8:30 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Final Logo Pick<br>To: Tim Sutton <<a href="mailto:lists@linfiniti.com" target="_blank">lists@linfiniti.com</a>><br>Cc: qgis-developer <<a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
<br><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>------snip 8< ------------------------- In retrospect I think a logo by popular consensus, as a means of getting to final logo selections, may not be the best course of action. In many organizations there are people with design background or knowledge who work on making the initial selections to bring to the community or those who make decisions.<br>
<br></div><div>For example, the popular #50 has a inherent design flaw of being 95% black, even though the rest of the design is OK. Such a committee could have spotted this early on and asked the designer to work on a fix, before the logo was presented to the community/PSC to vote on.<br>
<br></div><div>I suggest such a committee be formed and comprised of 3-5 people who's job is to manage and make initial decisions on:<br><br></div><div>* Project logo, design style, fonts<br>* Marketing material design style<br>
</div><div>* Documentation/web site template style and fonts<br></div><div>* Program's general icons, toolbar icons, splash screen and style<br></div><div><br></div><div>A design committee will allow a cohesive 'look' for all parts of the project to start taking shape. The committee should probably answer to and be under the purview of the PSC marketing advisor, and have specific abilities bestowed upon it members to vote internally to act on smaller decisions without needing full PSC approval.<br>
<br></div><div>Basically, I feel design by community popular vote is not a good approach: too many cooks in the kitchen. This committee could be formed now, with an initial goal of handling the current logo situation. While personally I have a lot of design experience and would like to be on such a committee, I understand my current conflict of interest regarding the logo, and would recuse myself regarding its decision.<br>
<br></div><div>An active community member who has clear public examples of quality, design-oriented work would be Anita Graser. So, I would nominate her to be on such a committee.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br>
<br></div><div>Larry<br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>
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