[Live-demo] blue wombat desktop background

[Cameron Shorter]

Tyler, others,
Yes, this discussion has taken place on both IRC and this email list, 
making it difficult to follow. (Cameron makes personal note to try to 
rectify this in future).

Summary of the status as I know it:
* Cameron seems to be the only person who thinks "arramagong" is a good 
name, and so has conceded that we should migrate to something different.
* For the upcoming 3.0 release in a few days, we will stick with the 
arramagong name as we haven't got enough time to change all the project 
references and make sure we push out a good new brand name.
* For the 4.0 release for FOSS4G 2010, we will pick a new name, probably 
based around the domain name of http://live.osgeo.org or similar. We 
have 5 months to clean up branding, docs etc.
* For the background image for the arramagong image, we are running with 
the blue-wombat background with has an osgeo logo (and lisasoft logo 
removed).
* For specific conferences or print runs, conference organisors can 
decide to set their own branding which promotes their conference or high 
sponsors. After this release, we may wish to put background branding 
guidelines in place.

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>   
>> Alex, Brian and I were discussing the wombat background on IRC. Both
>> agreed with you that the OSGeo logo was not bright enough.
>> I've updated the background image in svn with a brighter osgeo logo.
>> Brian also commented that he'd like the wombat to be smaller, but our
>> graphic artist says this will be quite a bit of work as he has done a
>> lot of post processing on the image (and he is getting a bit edgy about
>> all the adjustments I'm asking from him).
>>     
>
> Writing from the sidelines here.. assuming I got cc'd to give my opinion
> ;-)  If not, carrying on regardless...
>
> Seems a lot of effort on improving the branding for a final aramagong
> version, or am I missing something?  Why not leave it as it was - seemed
> good enough for FOSS4G 2009 - until your move to the OSGeo branding?
>
> I guess from comments in IRC that the list/team already decided on
> migrating the branding to more generic OSGeo branding?  What timelines
> for branding change did you decide on?
>
> If anyone has a minute to point me to the discussion thread, I wouldn't
> mind catching up.  Generally speaking, as an OSGeo project, I encourage
> open group decision making, especially when sensitive branding is part
> of the issue.  It's very possible that you could scare away more helpers
> who might see this project as a branding land mine if it continues to
> appear so painful to migrate without stepping on toes.
>
> Anyway, that's from the sidelines looking in.  Aside from branding, I
> assume everything is running like the well oiled machine that this
> project is!  Good work guys, it's sure encouraging to see!
>
> Tyler
>   


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