[Marketing] OSGeo projects logo symbol set needed

Fri Dec 22 07:54:41 PST 2017

Hey Astrid,
Please request new icons anytime !
Thanks for your comment on #2, ms-mapbender now ready for release :)
Also folks, feel free to use hello at mapsk.in for mapskin specific topics, thx

Best,

Nick

2017-12-22 8:37 GMT+01:00 Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <astrid_emde at osgeo.org>:

> 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/1mUSj6o8wTltnVAUDvoev
>> 7qgvC1jipAcNuHEDyCIxiRQ/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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>>> Veenderweg 13 [16]
>>> 6721 WD Bennekom
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>>> http://geocat.net [14]
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