[Marketing] OSGeo projects logo symbol set needed

Thu Dec 21 22:00:06 PST 2017

Hi Anton,
Thanks for your feedback !
The new mapsk.in should be available in a couple of weeks now, let's say
very early next year :)
Happy Holidays
Best,

Nick

2017-12-20 12:14 GMT+01:00 Anton Bakker <anton.bakker at geocat.net>:

> Hi Nicholas,
>
> Thanks for creating the Mapskin font, it looks really great! In response
> to Jeroen you mentioned you are in the process of releasing a new version
> of mapsk.in. Do you have an estimate for the release date?
> Thanks!
>
> Kind regards,
> Anton Bakker
>
> software developer at geocat <http://www.geocat.net/>
> tel. +31 318 416 664 <+31%20318%20416%20664>
>
>
>
> On 24 Nov 2017, at 13:08, Marc VLOEMANS <marcvloemans1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I understand what Nicolas suggests, we still have to find a story for the
> fact that a Marketing Committee member would earn money for labour....
> I don't want any back lash from this.
>
> Budget adjusted, see:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mUSj6o8wTltnVAUDvoev7qgvC1jip
> AcNuHEDyCIxiRQ/edit#gid=1577445783
>
> Cheers, Marc
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Marc Vloemans
>
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>
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 8:27 AM, nicolas bozon <nicolas.bozon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> @Marc, yes i would be glad to create and maintain such symbol set for
>> OSGeo, based on existing symbols in mapskin and new OSGeo branding.
>> I agree it should include every OSGeo projects, initiatives, chapters
>> etc..
>>
>> @Astrid, i quite agree with the 35 icons and action items you have listed:
>> - Make an inventory of missing material, reach every officers from
>> missing projects logos and open tickets accordingly.
>> - Draw simplified shapes as individual SVG in Inkscape
>> - Generate the webfont in various formats and write the correspondng CSS
>> rules
>> - Create a page presenting the symbol set and webfont, with simple howto
>> - Bring the result to github with appropriate open license, in the OSGeo
>> marketing repo
>>
>> Such work could be done using a budget of 1500€ (corresponding to a
>> silver level mapskin sponsorship btw).
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2017-11-23 7:05 GMT+01:00 Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <astrid_emde at osgeo.org>:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> there are some questions left from my point of view.
>>>
>>> 1. how many icon have to be added
>>> -------------------------------------
>>> OSGeo general - diverse OSGeo logos: +-5 -> 5
>>> FOSS4G already exist
>>> Geoforall already exist
>>> OSGeo Local Chapters 24 (not every Chapter has a logo) -> +-20
>>> OSGeo projects 34 (counted from osgeo.org) - 24 already exist on
>>> http://mapsk.in/ -> 10
>>> -------------------
>>> Total about 35 icons have to be created
>>>
>>>
>>> 2. What is needed?
>>> ----------------------
>>> * See get involved at http://mapsk.in/get-involved/
>>> * Someone has to search for the logos or ask the projects / chapters to
>>> open a ticket
>>> * Someone has to create the icon
>>>
>>> 3. What else?
>>>
>>> Nicolas - how much bugdet do you think is needed?
>>>
>>> Shall we make a motions:
>>>
>>> Motion 1: Motion to use Mapskin as collection for our OSGeo logos.
>>> Motion 2: Motion to ask for budget for 2018 to integrate missing icons
>>> to the collection. (when budget is clear)
>>>
>>> Astrid
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 2017-11-22 16:22, schrieb Jeffrey Johnson:
>>>
>>>> This is great! Would very much like to see this set include all the
>>>> projects. We should also add the new logo and the chapter logos etc.
>>>>
>>>> I would be +1 on spending marketing budget to update this set to be
>>>> kept current with branding and the entire set of projects.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 1:26 AM, Marc Vloemans <marcvloemans1 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Nicolas et al,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for following up so fast.
>>>>>
>>>>> @Nicolas; can we say that you are the ‘keeper’/responsible person for
>>>>> this
>>>>> initiative?
>>>>> A little financial support by Marketing Committee for this may be
>>>>> available
>>>>> for cash out costs regarding mapskin. What would be cost items And how
>>>>> much.
>>>>> So I can put into budget 2018.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>> Marc Vloemans
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Op 22 nov. 2017 om 09:24 heeft nicolas bozon <nicolas.bozon at gmail.com>
>>>>> het
>>>>> volgende geschreven:
>>>>>
>>>>> Joeren,
>>>>> Thanks for your positive feeback.
>>>>> An issue was opened last year for the missing geonetwork icon, please
>>>>> see:
>>>>> https://github.com/mapskin/mapskin/issues/1
>>>>> And it was already contributed by ErinBaker, but not yet included into
>>>>> mapsk.in
>>>>> It will be included in the coming next release.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Nick
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2017-11-22 7:42 GMT+01:00 Jeroen Ticheler <jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net
>>>>> >:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Nicolas and Astrid,
>>>>>> This is absolutely great! And great work (I indeed didn’t know of).
>>>>>> For
>>>>>> our purpose we can already move forward when we add GeoNetwork to the
>>>>>> set,
>>>>>> the others we need are already listed. Adding other missing projects
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> updating the OSGeo logo would make that complete indeed.
>>>>>> I’ve added my colleague involved (Anton) in copy to take this up from
>>>>>> our
>>>>>> side.
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Jeroen
>>>>>> _________________________
>>>>>> Jeroen Ticheler
>>>>>> GeoCat bv
>>>>>> Veenderweg 13
>>>>>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=Veenderweg+13+%0D+6721+WD+Bennekom&entry=gmail&source=g>
>>>>>> 6721 WD Bennekom
>>>>>> Tel: +31 (0)6 81286572
>>>>>> http://geocat.net
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Op 22 nov. 2017 om 07:26 heeft nicolas bozon <nicolas.bozon at gmail.com>
>>>>>> het
>>>>>> volgende geschreven:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Joeren,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for bringing this topic here.
>>>>>> I agree OSGeo needs such an iconic font and initiatives or projects
>>>>>> logos
>>>>>> should be available as scalable glyphs, so everybody could use them
>>>>>> simply
>>>>>> on any media.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BTW, this same idea was mentioned in the new branding EOI document but
>>>>>> neither marketing committee or selected vendor really followed up, so
>>>>>> we
>>>>>> couldn't make it yet. But our new branding still needs it. We recently
>>>>>> talked about this with Astrid too, so it is good timing to discuss it
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> make it happen IMHO.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As Astrid said, i have initiated a small project sometimes ago
>>>>>> following
>>>>>> quite the same goal.
>>>>>> It is called mapsk.in, is licensed uner Open Font License (OFL) and
>>>>>> intend
>>>>>> to be the 'geospatial web font' for everyone (please see
>>>>>> http://mapsk.in/manifesto/ for more details).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some of the OSGeo software projects, committees and initiatives logos
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> available in the 'Software' and 'Community' sections at
>>>>>> http://mapsk.in/#icons
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I believe part of this work could be updated and used to create an
>>>>>> OSGeo
>>>>>> symbol set or scalable web font. Such set should be licensed under
>>>>>> OFL and
>>>>>> copyrigthed OSGeo.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am in the process of releasing a new version of mapsk.in soon,
>>>>>> including
>>>>>> new symbols, updated software symbols and updated OSGeo Foundation
>>>>>> logos.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It would be interesting to create a derived symbol set for OSGeo out
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> this coming new mapsk.in version. I would be even better if such
>>>>>> work could
>>>>>> be funded by OSGeo through a maspk.in sponsorship for example
>>>>>> (http://mapsk.in/get-involved/) -
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I agree with Astrid, we could first list all the needed symbols to
>>>>>> evaluate time and costs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Talk soon,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nick
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2017-11-22 7:10 GMT+01:00 Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <astrid_emde at osgeo.org
>>>>>> >:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> sorry. my last mail was too fast.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sounds like a good idea to me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you know the project Mapskin from Nicolas Bozon? Mapskin is a TTF
>>>>>>> Collection and already contains some of our project logo. See next
>>>>>>> link and
>>>>>>> scroll to the bootom.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://mapsk.in/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maybe we can ask Nicolas to integrate all logos and ask about the
>>>>>>> costs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Astrid
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Am 2017-11-21 21:32, schrieb Jeroen Ticheler:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Dear Marketing committee,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We have a need for a (free/open) set of scalable symbols (TTF) that
>>>>>>>> represent different OSGeo projects / software packages. These
>>>>>>>> symbols
>>>>>>>> should have a common style so they work well together visually. At
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> moment such symbols do not exist.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Based on the existing project logos it is quite a challenge to
>>>>>>>> produce
>>>>>>>> a uniform set of graphics / symbols. OpenGeo produced something in
>>>>>>>> that direction in the past with a GeoServer logo, PostGIS logo,
>>>>>>>> OpenLayers and QGIS logo they could use in their product suite. In
>>>>>>>> our
>>>>>>>> case we are not looking for graphics like those of OpenGeo, but for
>>>>>>>> scalable TTF symbols as exist for e.g. Whatsapp, Facebook,
>>>>>>>> Instagram,
>>>>>>>> Twitter that are found on many websites.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> _Is this something that OSGeo could take up and fund so it becomes a
>>>>>>>> resource the whole OSGeo community can benefit from? _
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It may require support/ buy in from the projects that become part of
>>>>>>>> such symbol set. Not sure what other things are required?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Looking forward to hear from you, cheers,
>>>>>>>> Jeroen
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ____________________________________________________
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Jeroen TichelerGeoCat bv
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