[Marketing] OSGeo projects logo symbol set needed

[nicolas bozon]

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
>>
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