[Marketing] OSGeo projects logo symbol set needed

Wed Nov 22 23:27:10 PST 2017

Hi all,

@Marc, yes i would be glad to create and maintain such symbol set for
OSGeo, based on existing symbols in mapskin and new OSGeo branding.
I agree it should include every OSGeo projects, initiatives, chapters etc..

@Astrid, i quite agree with the 35 icons and action items you have listed:
- Make an inventory of missing material, reach every officers from missing
projects logos and open tickets accordingly.
- Draw simplified shapes as individual SVG in Inkscape
- Generate the webfont in various formats and write the correspondng CSS
rules
- Create a page presenting the symbol set and webfont, with simple howto
- Bring the result to github with appropriate open license, in the OSGeo
marketing repo

Such work could be done using a budget of 1500€ (corresponding to a silver
level mapskin sponsorship btw).

Best,

Nick

2017-11-23 7:05 GMT+01:00 Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <astrid_emde at osgeo.org>:

> Hello,
>
> there are some questions left from my point of view.
>
> 1. how many icon have to be added
> -------------------------------------
> 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
> -------------------
> Total about 35 icons have to be created
>
>
> 2. What is needed?
> ----------------------
> * 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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>>>>> Astrid Emde
>>>>> Charter Member
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>>>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Astrid_Emde
>>>>>
>>>>
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