[OSGeo-Discuss] Gender neutral default image on webpage

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 6:51 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Your feedback makes me think we should hide entries that don’t have a photo.
>
> My thinking is part of the point of the website is to show that open source is made by people. Pages and pages of placeholder photos make us look like the faceless mob that protential adopters are told to fear to trust.
>
> Would rather fewer people with real faces from an outreach standpoint.

+1, or at least don't show an anonymous icon for people with no image.

Also, I don't understand why I don't have a face on that page, but I
do on my page: https://www.osgeo.org/member/rowlingson/ - so I have to
upload a profile picture in two places?

Barry


> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 2:50 AM Tom Chadwin <tom.chadwin at nnpa.org.uk> wrote:
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>> Disagree with Barry - I do like it. However, I do think the high-contrast design means the placeholders can overpower the actual photos. I would definitely knock back the darkness of the background colour, and probably knock back the whole thing a fair bit. I'm thinking that the palette should reflect a disabled icon or menu item in a GUI, so be faded. Other than that, I really like it.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Barry
>> > Rowlingson
>> > Sent: 22 January 2019 08:36
>> > To: Vicky Vergara
>> > Cc: OSGeo Discuss list
>> > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender neutral default image on webpage
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 4:53 AM Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hello all
>> > > I made a gender neutral default image representing an OSGeo member.
>> > > Hope you like it.
>> >
>> > Not sure I do like it! The head is so large compared to the body, and
>> > the body so devoid of feature I don't immediately read it as an
>> > abstract human representation. I'm almost reading it as a lower-case
>> > 'i'. Plus the logo is ever so slightly off-center from the circle
>> > which is triggering my OCD tendencies a bit.
>> >
>> > Maybe if the body was a bit larger and connected to the head. It is a
>> > very bold and high-contrast design, and appears very large on the page
>> > so the overall impact is quite massive. Maybe if the icons were
>> > smaller it wouldn't matter so much, but as the page is currently my
>> > browser shows only four people on a screen at once, and most of that
>> > is avatars and fairly empty squares with names in. Sorry if I've
>> > drifted off topic into the web page design now....
>> >
>> >  Happy to tweak it a bit if you've got an Inkscape SVG to share.
>> >
>> > Barry
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > On this page
>> > > https://www.osgeo.org/community/members/
>> > > The image is shown when the member does not have an libavatar . (work
>> > in progress, on displaying the uploaded image on this page)
>> > >
>> > > On the profile page, the
>> > > libavatar  takes precedence
>> > > if not found then uploaded image
>> > > if not found then the default image is used
>> > >
>> > > Regards
>> > > Vicky
>> > >
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