[OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] OSGeo symbols set

[Vicky Vergara]

I still dont understand why does pgRouting logo and many others have to
lose the colors.


On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 8:03 AM nicolas bozon <nicolas.bozon at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have updated the OSGeo symbols set according to your feedbacks.
>
> Updated Preview:
> https://nbozon.github.io/OSGeo/symbols-set/
>
> Updated material:
>
> https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/pull/206/commits/d4cf2ebc76e34293333953980a38dd047d3003a7
>
>
> Basic changelog:
>
> - Removed every symbols considered as non-compliant to our brand guidelines
> - Removed the Get-It project logo which is not a community project at all
> - Corrected PostGIS and PgRouting elephant logos (so a bit less scalable
> now)
> - Corrected mapfish and pywps logos (added missing text)
> - Renamed live to osgeolive
>
> As nothing that may considered as non compliant to our guidelines remains,
> and that the first batch of community feedbacks have been taken into
> account, may i suggest that the OSGeo symbols set could now be pulled into
> the branding repo ?
>
> Thanks in advance for any comment
>
> Best,
>
> Nick
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Le mer. 21 nov. 2018 à 00:30, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> Hi Jody,
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for your constructive feedbacks.
>>>
>>> I am a bit confused on this one - part of the point of having our mark
>>>> was to use it everywhere on all the OSGeo things.
>>>>
>>> Our mark is our beloved compass, and these variations on the compass are
>>> meant to represent all the OSGeo things :)
>>>
>>
>>
>>>  I get your point here, but i think these symbols could be great to help
>>> differenciate the many facets of OSGeo.
>>> Imagine a new comer that could for example identify each of our activity
>>> very clearly. I think that symbols might help him to
>>> understand the foundation and find his way, with always the compass
>>> shape in mind of course :)
>>>
>>
>> I understand, and indeed I assumed we would go with the sub brand
>> approach myself. As such I am not the best person to do the pros/cons
>> between the ideas :)
>>
>> This is a case where I love your work, and want to double check our
>> strategy.
>>
>> The style guide is here:
>> https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/marketing/branding
>>
>> The summary has:
>>
>> *Logos are as provided for OSGeo and sub-brands (all of which include the
>>> unalterned OSGeo mark). Distinct brands (such as GeoForAll and OSGeo Live)
>>> maintain their own mark.*
>>> *While logos have been produced with Miriam Libre Bold and Sintony
>>> Regular the resulting shapes have been reduced to outlines for use on
>>> systems that do not have the correct fonts available. A template has been
>>> provided for the generation of additional sub-brand logos.*
>>
>>
>> aside: We really need this converted to html for our website.
>>
>> You are right, and i think Boundless did a great elephant design on the
>>> old OpenGeo Suite, so i got inspired :)
>>> Slonik is a lovely but very detailed SVG, so difficult to integrate in
>>> such a symbol set. That's why i decided to use a simpler one.
>>> I will try to modify it before the PostGIS folks complain :)
>>>
>>
>> Chance for collaboration rather than complaints, I think everyone can see
>> the design limitation.
>>
>> Our OSGeo compass outline does not "quite" work, since there is not much
>> room for the project identify inside. I think we had sub branding as a
>> priority we would of done it a little bit different.
>>
>>
>>> - get-it just added themselves to the website wrong and have not yet
>>>> asked to be a community project? I am trying to confirm now ...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Whoa, my bad, sorry ! i didn't know one could become a Community Project
>>> so easily :)
>>>
>>
>> We like projects to ask, the code and project is reviewed on the
>> incubation list, etc..
>>
>>
>>> Yes, please confirm with the Incubation Committee about their
>>> application. I see you already removed it from the website so i will remove
>>> it from the set.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah I may of messed up there, trying to figure it out.
>>
>>>
>>> - Loader is being added (it is approved but still has a draft web page)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Good point, will plan to integrate the Loader logo, but i can't find it
>>> by now :(
>>>
>>
>> To be honest I do not think they have a logo.
>>
>>>
>>> - GC2/Vidi was just added yesterday
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, and the Mapcentia logo is already in the set. I understand both GC2
>>> and Vidi use the same logotype right ?
>>>
>>
>> Yeah and that is the logo of the company so ... not the best logo for the
>> project? Actually if you wanted to stop by the incubation list we could
>> talk to the projects directly.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks again and talk soon
>>>
>>
>> Indeed!
>> Jody
>>
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