[Qgis-psc] Should we start a design committee? Was: [Qgis-developer] Final Logo Pick

[Anita Graser]

Hi,

Since the "final logo pick" thread is starting to get messy, I thought I'd
start a separate thread for this issue.
If the PSC wants a design committee, I'd be happy to serve on it. I fully
agree with Larry that it should be limited to 3-5 members. Will the PSC
pick them? Do we need an election process?

Best wishes,
Anita

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Larry Shaffer <larrys at dakotacarto.com>
Date: Sat, May 18, 2013 at 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Final Logo Pick
To: Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com>
Cc: qgis-developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>

------snip 8< ------------------------- In retrospect I think a logo by
popular consensus, as a means of getting to final logo selections, may not
be the best course of action. In many organizations there are people with
design background or knowledge who work on making the initial selections to
bring to the community or those who make decisions.

For example, the popular #50 has a inherent design flaw of being 95% black,
even though the rest of the design is OK. Such a committee could have
spotted this early on and asked the designer to work on a fix, before the
logo was presented to the community/PSC to vote on.

I suggest such a committee be formed and comprised of 3-5 people who's job
is to manage and make initial decisions on:

* Project logo, design style, fonts
* Marketing material design style
* Documentation/web site template style and fonts
* Program's general icons, toolbar icons, splash screen and style

A design committee will allow a cohesive 'look' for all parts of the
project to start taking shape. The committee should probably answer to and
be under the purview of the PSC marketing advisor, and have specific
abilities bestowed upon it members to vote internally to act on smaller
decisions without needing full PSC approval.

Basically, I feel design by community popular vote is not a good approach:
too many cooks in the kitchen. This committee could be formed now, with an
initial goal of handling the current logo situation. While personally I
have a lot of design experience and would like to be on such a committee, I
understand my current conflict of interest regarding the logo, and would
recuse myself regarding its decision.

An active community member who has clear public examples of quality,
design-oriented work would be Anita Graser. So, I would nominate her to be
on such a committee.

Regards,

Larry
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