[FOSS4G-UK] [External] Re: Logo

[Nick Bearman]

That's fine - happy to proceed with Barry's, just wanted to check.

N.

On 07/06/2023 16:36, Dave Barter wrote:
> Sorry I didn’t speak to him after seeing Barry’s logo which seemed 
> great to me
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>> On 7 Jun 2023, at 16:36, Nick Bearman 
>> <nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> 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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