[Marketing] OSGeo projects logo symbol set needed
Astrid Emde (OSGeo)
astrid_emde at osgeo.org
Wed Nov 22 22:05:32 PST 2017
Hello,
there are some questions left from my point of view.
1. how many icon have to be added
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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) - 24 already exist on
http://mapsk.in/ -> 10
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Total about 35 icons have to be created
2. What is needed?
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* 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
>> 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
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>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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