[FOSS4G-UK] [External] Re: Logo

[Nick Bearman]

Dave - did you hear back from your colleague?

Just wanted to make sure before we press ahead with this logo.

Thanks,
Nick.

On 07/06/2023 16:35, Nick Bearman wrote:
>
> Thanks for your work with the logo Barry - it's looking really good.
>
> I like the fact you've made the locations a bit more obvious than before.
>
> I'm not 100% sure about Ireland having a different colour and with the 
> dots being on the diagonal rather than on the straight (up and down) - 
> one or the other would be fine, I think both is a bit over kill. What 
> do you think?
>
> Also, something weird is happening between NI and Scotland - not sure 
> what the three dots are doing there.
>
> Are you willing to give it a bit more of a tweak, or share the source 
> files, so I can?
>
> I like the names - possibly Bristol need a bit of location tweak.
>
> We should also incorporate the event name in there somewhere - 
> FOSS4G:UK Local 2023.
>
> The swoop I like, will have to see how it all fits together.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick.
>
>
> On 25/05/2023 11:47, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
>> Thanks for the feedback and suggestions, here's the site map with 
>> upright text and locations marked as open circled.
>>
>> image.png
>> I had a quick go at incorporating the national flags into the OSGeo 
>> swoosh. Note that there's no Northern Ireland flag in this but a) we 
>> don't have a location in NI and b) there is no official flag for 
>> Northern Ireland - the Ulster Banner and the St Patrick's Saltire are 
>> sometimes used but there's only four spaces in the swoosh...
>>
>> image.png
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 5:05 PM Dan Ormsby <dormsby at sparkgeo.com> wrote:
>>
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>>     Looks great Barry!  Vertically flipping the bottom 4 place names
>>     might make it a bit easier to read and yes agree on the
>>     highlighted points for venues.  It's only now that you mention it
>>     that I realise that is what was done on last years logo!
>>
>>     Dan
>>
>>     On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 16:46, Barry Rowlingson
>>     <b.rowlingson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi all, nice chat this morning, sets me thinking about
>>         various things...
>>
>>         I like the logo with the dotmap of the UK and the locations
>>         coloured in, I assume the plan was to do this again but
>>         including Ireland and putting 7 dots in the right place for
>>         the seven locations? I'd suggest making the location dots
>>         clearer than the background dots, and giving the location
>>         names more prominence? Not sure if embedded images an
>>         non-plain text is allowed on this mailing list but (and I've
>>         not coloured the dots in...)
>>
>>         image.png
>>
>>         makes me think of one of those panorama viewpoint indicator
>>         things you get on the tops of hills showing you the places in
>>         the distance... which gives me another idea that's probably
>>         totally impractical...
>>
>>         and in for a penny, here's a preliminary "ten years after"
>>         logo...
>>
>>         image.png
>>         ok back to proper work now..
>>
>>         Barry
>>
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