[OSGeo-Board] FAQ feedback

[Arnulf Christl]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> On 2/28/06, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>>Markus Neteler wrote:
>>
>>>Again a comment on the FAQ:
>>>
>>>Do we want to add a paragraph on the (non) commercialization
>>>of the logo and related stuff? People will want to know if we charge
>>>for the use of the OSGeo logo in their projects, works etc.
>>
>>Markus,
>>
>>I haven't been asked that question myself, and we haven't really worked
>>out a policy on it.  I don't think we should hold back publishing the FAQ
>>for such an addition.
> 
> 
> Frank,
> 
> of course, I didn't intend to hold back publishing the FAQ (as I
> gave my +1).
> But I would like to raise the discussion on that since it is important.
> 
> markus

Hi,
I have a few ideas regarding the use of the logo. Where should I put them?

[LOGO + Member]
is good for the 45 to be members to put on the business card.

[LOGO + Associate Member]
This category would fit for all those left out of the initial 45 voting 
members. Pay 20 bucks and get the sticker?

[LOGO + BoD Member]
is good for the 9 to be board of director members to put on the business 
card. I have been practicing this for two years now and people like it. 
On one side of my business card it says "Company CCGIS, Arnulf Christl 
CKO" and on the flip side it says "Mapbender - Free Software". Or vice 
versa, CCGIS is on the flip side, depending on who I am talking to...

[LOGO + Sponsor]
is good for companies, organisations, individuals who at some place have 
put money into OSGeo or otherwise contributed 'notably'. The term 
'notably' would have to be defined. Does it time out after 12 months if 
sponsoring is not renewed? Who is going to control this?
On the other hand, why not have people do some advertising for us even 
though they didn't contribute major? Its a tightrope walk. During the 
boot process we would want to have as many multipliers as possible, as 
long as everybody else has more outreach than OSGeo. Later on we might 
want to have this turned around because then OSGeo visibility will add 
to the visbility of contributors or sponsors.

Later maybe add:
[LOGO + Contributor]
to differentiate and make it a Sponsor only when more than 10K or 
something.

[LOGO + Core Project]
To be linked witht the download package. This would apply to adopted 
projects that have run through incubation successfully.

Linking:
It is standard pratice to not download the logo but link it from the 
originating website. SourceForge does it with a little script.

<IMG src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=62962&type=5" 
width="210" height="62" border="0" alt="SourceForge Logo">

This would give us some feedback on where the logo appears and maybe 
prevents at least some people from abusing it. Somebody would have to 
check this every now and then or provide web statistics.

Ahhh, I hate it: New MS IE versions by default block images when they 
are linked from an IP that differs to the originating web site IP. Then 
the logo won't show up. Minor problem, will probably be addressed when 
they fixed MS IE. Or finally succeeded deleting the internet...

Now, wait a second. This means that the whole idea of OWS goes awry!? 
Mapbender links services by calling them with JavaScript from the 
respective servers directly and overlay them in the mapframe. So 
whenever IE blocks images that come from a different server no maps will 
show up. Not even an error message is displayed. I can't believe this. 
Can somebody please by default block Microsoft software from the internet?

Best, Arnulf.