[FOSS4G2016] SVN

Thu Jul 9 01:23:24 PDT 2015

Hi,

for Jeff's pleasure ;) - I recently also copied a lot of documents from 
the whole LofI/proposal stuff and also many photographs and other stuff 
into the SVN.
Feel free re-sorting it ;-).

Till

Am 2015-07-08 19:41, schrieb anton at foss4g2016.org:
> Hi,
>
> the Gimp files along with PNG and PDF files of the last version are
> in the SVN now, for everyone who wants to play around with it:
>
>   https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2016/documents/postcards/
>
> Regards
> Anton
>
> On 2015-07-08 10:39, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
>> Hi Anton, @All,
>> many thanks again for your efforts.
>> I just ordered 500 postcards, so any wishes for improvements are
>> obsolete for now.
>>
>> So far, Till
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 2015-07-07 23:57, schrieb anton at foss4g2016.org:
>>> Hi,
>>> the single colored and blurred OSGeo-logo were intentional. I find
>>> the green logo much harder to see, since it's over a green forest, 
>>> and
>>> besides: there is the full color version on the back side. The
>>> blur/glow was there to make the light shadow in the background more
>>> subtle (which obviously worked since nobody complained about it =).
>>> The shadow is there to enhance the contrast, and since it's part of
>>> the background too, I hope you don't object to the 'Do not' part 
>>> 'b'
>>> that states 'Add dark drop shadows to the logo'. Due to the dark, 
>>> wild
>>> background and the wide radius of the shadow (which doesn't really
>>> make it a 'drop' shadow in this sense, as shown in the guide), I 
>>> still
>>> find it subtle enough and it makes a great difference for the
>>> readability from the far.
>>> Neither single color mode nor shadow as common contrast enhancement
>>> tool on a non-white(!), noisy(!) background *in combination* with
>>> white foreground are taken into concern in the style guide (a 
>>> weakness
>>> of it, as I think). Is the guide incomplete maybe? (At least it's a
>>> very small compared to other style-guides I've seen and seems to be
>>> designed especially for business cards and white or green paper.)
>>> As for the single color: Logo-design-101 says, that a logo should
>>> always be printable using one color (i.e. for black-only printers).
>>> The OSGeo-logo's design itself is definitly capable of it.
>>> I vote for the white logo at least *in this instance*. The
>>> alternative would be a white box around it, for which I would ask
>>> someone else to do that. I couldn't bring that over my heard (for 
>>> the
>>> logo's sake =).
>>> Or something else... any ideas?
>>> So for the final version I just took out the glow and weakend the
>>> shadow a bit. Here are the ready-to-print versions as PDF:
>>> Front: http://antonpopov.de/foss4g-2016/postcard/front-06-final.pdf
>>> Back:  http://antonpopov.de/foss4g-2016/postcard/back-03-final.pdf
>>> or as PNG:
>>> Front: http://antonpopov.de/foss4g-2016/postcard/front-06-final.png
>>> Back:  http://antonpopov.de/foss4g-2016/postcard/back-03-final.png
>>> A commit to the SVN (including cleaned up XCF's) will follow soon.
>>> Thank you all for having an opinion and commenting on the topic =)
>>> That made this a lot easier!
>>> Regards
>>> Anton
>>> On 2015-07-07 14:09, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
>>>> Hi Gert-Jan,
>>>> do you ask Anton to change the logos color with that?
>>>> If so, @Anton, if that is still possible, just do it and then pass
>>>> over the final print-drafts, so I can start the printing of the
>>>> postcards. As I'll see some guys in Como (Jeff, Gert-Jan, others) 
>>>> I
>>>> will make some more, so you guys can distribute them as well.
>>>> So far, Till
>>>> Am 2015-07-07 13:53, schrieb Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting 
>>>> OSGeo.nl:
>>>>> Hi Anton,
>>>>> Great job!
>>>>> Of your so-called 3 "minus-points" (transparancy, 
>>>>> hard-to-read-text and
>>>>> non-style-guide color of logo) I think only the color of the logo 
>>>>> is a
>>>>> concern.
>>>>> Is it because of readability on the rather gre nlower-left 
>>>>> background that
>>>>> you choose a white (instead of a green) logo?
>>>>> Just made a small test myself with the original (dark & light 
>>>>> green) logo:
>>>>> even for me (being colourblind, really!) the readability of the 
>>>>> logo is
>>>>> absolutely fine.
>>>>> And thank a lot for pointing me to me the OSGeo style guide. 
>>>>> Another hidden
>>>>> gem!
>>>>> regards,
>>>>> Gert-Jan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>>>>> Van: foss4g2016-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>>>> [mailto:foss4g2016-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Namens Jeff McKenna
>>>>> Verzonden: dinsdag 7 juli 2015 13:39
>>>>> Aan: foss4g2016 at lists.osgeo.org
>>>>> Onderwerp: Re: [FOSS4G2016] A postcard for promoting the 
>>>>> conference on print
>>>>> media
>>>>> Great work Anton!  Super. Thank you for including the OSGeo logo.
>>>>> PS. you'll never hear me complaining of over-using SVN :)
>>>>> -jeff
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2015-07-06 8:05 PM, anton at foss4g2016.org wrote:
>>>>>> Hey folks!
>>>>>> I can't think strait anymore... It's been a crazy day and I'm 
>>>>>> tired,
>>>>>> so I declare the next episode of the postcard series as open to
>>>>> discussion:
>>>>>> Front: http://antonpopov.de/foss4g-2016/postcard/front-06.png
>>>>>> Back:  http://antonpopov.de/foss4g-2016/postcard/back-03.png
>>>>>> Featuring:
>>>>>> + a new photo theme (thanks to Till and the City of Bonn) a new 
>>>>>> set of
>>>>>> + open fonts (thanks to Gert-Jan for pointing that [1] out):
>>>>>>    * 'Open Sans' (Apache License Version 2.0)
>>>>>>    * 'Pecita Expanded' (handwriting font / SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE
>>>>>> Version
>>>>>> 1.1 (memo to self: read it!))
>>>>>> - fancy transparency stuff
>>>>>> - an OSGeo logo at the front that propably goes against the 
>>>>>> style
>>>>>> guide [2]
>>>>>> - text that may be hard to read
>>>>>> @Jeff: I thought about putting the Gimp files to the SVN, but on
>>>>>> forseeing an upload of more than 100 MB - that would take half a 
>>>>>> day
>>>>>> to complete - I resigned. I'll clean up the files to reduce the 
>>>>>> size,
>>>>>> but not today =)
>>>>>> Good night
>>>>>> Anton
>>>>>> [1] http://openfontlibrary.org
>>>>>> [2]
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/guidelines/OSGeo%20Official%20Br
>>>>>> anding%20Guide.pdf
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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