[Marketing] OSGeo projects logo symbol set needed

Wed Nov 22 07:22:31 PST 2017

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
> 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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>>
>>
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