[Marketing] OSGeo projects logo symbol set needed

[nicolas bozon]

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
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> 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
>>>
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>> --
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