[Marketing] OSGeo projects logo symbol set needed

Wed Nov 22 01:26:52 PST 2017

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
>> 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
>>>>> Veenderweg 13
>>>>> 6721 WD Bennekom
>>>>> The Netherlands
>>>>> Tel: +31 (0)6 81286572
>>>>> http://geocat.net
>>>>>  [1]
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>>> -- 
>>>> Astrid Emde
>>>> Charter Member
>>>> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
>>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Astrid_Emde
>>> 
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