[OSGeo-Board] Logos

[Rich Steele]

Doing a logo search can get pretty expensive.  I'm not sure we will want
to look into four different candidates and expend the costs.  We can
look at the winner more closely once one emerges from the contest, or
otherwise.  

-Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jo Walsh [mailto:jo at frot.org]
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 9:53 AM
> To: Frank Warmerdam (External)
> Cc: Gary Lang; board at board.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Board] Logos
> 
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:39:59PM -0400, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> > Gary Lang wrote:
> > >I was looking at the logo candidates. They?re awesome.
> > The idea was to give the board (and webcom) an opportunity to review
for
> > appropriateness, etc before the final list went to public vote.
> > I believe the selected final four will appear on a public page.
> 
> Daniel mentioned there was also some kind of legal liability
> consideration;
> I have no idea how visual trademarking works, or how it's reasonable
> to check out graphics for infringement, whether there are
'logo-sharks'
> like domain sharks, whether this is something that really needs to be
> worried about before the logo question even goes up for a vote, as
> vetting, if it's necessary, could be expensive and timeconsuming.
> 
> What's the voting process going to be; voting members email an
> address, and someone hand-correlates the results?
> https://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/logo_contest.html
> suggests that
> [[ All members of OSGeo (anyone with an account on the OSGeo.org
> website) will be allowed to place a single vote. In the case of a tie,
> the Web Committee will have the final say. ]]
> 
> (I would predict that there are some voting members who don't have
> accounts registered on CollabNet. And it would be incredibly useful
> to be able to get access to the membership data for the whole site.
> Was this resolved satisfactorily, when Arnulf asked about user account
> management information recently?)
> 
> Is the timescale for the final vote, something to be decided here, or
> within WebCom?
> 
> I definitely agree with Arnulf's suggestion that what gets picked
> needs to be professionally "finished" by a graphic designer, and
> wonder if there's budget for that.
> 
> best wishes,
> 
> 
> jo
> 
> 
> 
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