hello all,
first a thank you as a GeoServer user to all the companies funding the
project and its developers and bringing the product to what it is
today.
my notes in no particular order follow:
* i'd like the logo to reflect what the product is: a worldwide,
best-of-breed, open source, OGC standards compliant, GIS Application
Server! while traditionally the GIS part is represented by a Globe,
some (real) old maps used two spheres to show the whole Earth; i.e.
the 'world-wide' aspect of the product. that's the rationale for
proposing a representation of the Earth which shows most if not all the
continents --nothing to do with politics or political correctness.
* like any real-life activity tasks have to be funded. so indeed, this
feedback process has to be limited. i already gave my feed-back and
tried to explain the motivation behind it. at the end of the day,
people use a product not because it has, or not, a 'nice' logo.
GeoServer is for sure an excellent product whatever logo it will
have 
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:05:05 am Chris Holmes wrote:
Er, the current GeoServer logo
http://geoserver.org/download/userResources/GEOS/logo has about the
same portion of the world. And PostGIS has even less
http://www.postgis.org/download/logo_suite/stock_elephant/stock_eleph
ant_060.gif
Perhaps we could have two, that people can use as they like? I don't
like the double one, and the pangaea sounds like it would be weird.
C
David Winslow wrote:
> In this week's GeoServer meeting on IRC (logs at
> http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/2008/09/16/IRC+Logs%2C+Septemb
>er+16%2C+2008) we discussed the concerns about the logo that have
> been brought up here, namely:
> 1) The color of the text 'GeoServer' in the powered-by logo does
> not contrast with the background strongly enough to attract the
> eye, and 2) The eastern hemisphere is excluded from the logo.
>
> In the meeting we decided that (1) is not really problematic (ie,
> those at the meeting all agreed that there is sufficient contrast),
> but (2) is a valid concern. We plan to have our designer look into
> producing a variation on the icon with either ambiguous continents
> (we'll call this approach 'No Favorites') or one that includes all
> the continents ('Pangaea'), sticking with whichever looks best in
> the end. In order to provide concerned parties some time to give
> feedback we'll wait a couple of days before going forward with the
> redesign though.
>
> -David Winslow
>
> Raif S. Naffah wrote:
>> hello Chris,
>>
>> one suggestion based on the fact that the image/icon part of the
>> logo does not show our part of the world is possibly to have a
>> pair, side by side, showing the other side of the globe; in ascii
>> art:
>>
>> + +
>> / \ / \
>> + + + GeoServer
>> \ / \ /
>> + +
>>
>> otherwise
>>
>> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:43:12 am Chris Holmes wrote:
>>> Hey all, I just put together GSIP 26,
>>> http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GSIP+26+-+New+GeoServer+Brandin
>>>g
>>>
>>> At OpenGeo we have had some designers working to come up with a
>>> proposal for some new icons, and hopefully a more full 'identity'
>>> with fonts and colors. We should also have time to theme the
>>> various websites. We like the new logos and fonts, but if the
>>> community has alternate proposals we could use those, and we
>>> should still be able to spend time theming with whatever the
>>> community comes up with. But we figured it was easier to just
>>> start with a single proposal.
>>>
>>> The various pieces can be seen at
>>> http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/New+GeoServer+Branding
>>>
>>> And you can read the guide, for the use of it, at
>>> http://geoserver.org/download/attachments/10158143/GeoServer_Bran
>>>ding Guide.pdf
>>>
>>> If we can vote on this soon we may be able to have new sites in
>>> place in time for foss4g. Let me know on this email thread what
>>> you all think.
>>>
>>> best regards,
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
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