[Marketing] OSGeo projects logo symbol set needed

Thu Dec 21 23:37:47 PST 2017

Great news.

Can we already request for icons as described here

http://mapsk.in/get-involved/

Or shall we wait for the next version?

Astrid

Am 2017-12-22 07:00, schrieb nicolas bozon:
> Hi Anton,
> Thanks for your feedback !
> The new mapsk.in [1] 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 [1]. Do you have an estimate for the
>> release date?
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Anton Bakker
>> 
>> software developer at geocat [2]
>> tel. +31 318 416 664 [3]
>> 
>> 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/1mUSj6o8wTltnVAUDvoev7qgvC1jipAcNuHEDyCIxiRQ/edit#gid=1577445783
>> [4]
>> 
>> Cheers, Marc
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> Marc Vloemans
>> 
>> Mobile +31(0)651 844262 [5]
>> LinkedIn: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/marcvloemans [6]
>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/marcvloemans [7]
>> http://www.slideshare.net/marcvloemans [8]
>> 
>> 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 [9]) - 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 [10]
>> And it was already contributed by ErinBaker, but not yet included
>> into
>> mapsk.in [11]
>> 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 [12]
>> 6721 WD Bennekom
>> Tel: +31 (0)6 81286572 [13]
>> http://geocat.net [14]
>> 
>> 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 [11], 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 [11]
>> 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 [11] version. I would be even better if
>> such work could
>> be funded by OSGeo through a maspk.in [15] 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
>> 
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