[Marketing] Next Marketing Committee meeting Wednesday Jun 9th (2008-07-09) at 14:00 UTC

Hi,
I scheduled the next meeting for Wednesday 9th of June, same time. If you would rather have another time or date please let this list know.

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Committee#IRC_Meeting

We have a few todos until that meeting, especially consolidating the Marketing and Communication Plan (see previous mail) and replacing all logos with the new version. When that is done we should make a Press Release. Anybody feeling like putting together some marketing blurb on why we did it and what it means to us please do so.

Regards, Arnulf.

--
Arnulf Benno Christl
http://www.osgeo.org
(OSGeo Board Member)
+50.7342N +7.0707E

Dear All,

I am sorry I haven't been able to attend the last meetings. I have shifted apartment and for a while I have had no internet at home. The time of the meeting here in Japan is a little late (11pm) and unfortunately I cannot access internet from another place at that time.

As soon as I get internet again at home I will attend the meetings as usual.

Kind Regards,

Daniele.

Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote:

Hi,
I scheduled the next meeting for Wednesday 9th of June, same time. If you would rather have another time or date please let this list know.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Committee#IRC_Meeting

We have a few todos until that meeting, especially consolidating the Marketing and Communication Plan (see previous mail) and replacing all logos with the new version. When that is done we should make a Press Release. Anybody feeling like putting together some marketing blurb on why we did it and what it means to us please do so.

Regards, Arnulf.

On 30-Jun-08, at 5:47 AM, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote:

We have a few todos until that meeting, especially consolidating the Marketing and Communication Plan (see previous mail) and replacing all logos with the new version. When that is done we should make a Press Release. Anybody feeling like putting together some marketing blurb on why we did it and what it means to us please do so.

I hope to have looked at these before the meeting as well as the flyers etc.

Hi all,
I'll definitely not be there :slight_smile: However, I just committed the new logos in EPS, GIF and JPEG format to the marketing/logos folder. If there's a need for other formats, let me know so I can ask Ines. Otherwise this is it :slight_smile:
Ciao,
Jeroen

On Jun 30, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote:

Hi,
I scheduled the next meeting for Wednesday 9th of June, same time. If you would rather have another time or date please let this list know.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Committee#IRC_Meeting

We have a few todos until that meeting, especially consolidating the Marketing and Communication Plan (see previous mail) and replacing all logos with the new version. When that is done we should make a Press Release. Anybody feeling like putting together some marketing blurb on why we did it and what it means to us please do so.

Regards, Arnulf.
--
Arnulf Benno Christl
http://www.osgeo.org
(OSGeo Board Member)
+50.7342N +7.0707E
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On 2-Jul-08, at 12:59 AM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:

However, I just committed the new logos in EPS, GIF and JPEG format to the marketing/logos folder. If there's a need for other formats, let me know so I can ask Ines. Otherwise this is it :slight_smile:

I'm looking at them now. It'd be nice to have PNG, but as long as the JPEGs are lossless then creating them should be no problem. I did notice that these are not "transparent friendly", seemingly designed only for a white background. In one spot (lower right of circle) there is a white section used as a mask that won't work in the long run.

Tyler

JPGs are not lossless. PNGs much preferred...

-mpg

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Subject: [Marketing] logo comments

On 2-Jul-08, at 12:59 AM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:

> However, I just committed the new logos in EPS, GIF and
JPEG format
> to the marketing/logos folder. If there's a need for other
formats,
> let me know so I can ask Ines. Otherwise this is it :slight_smile:

I'm looking at them now. It'd be nice to have PNG, but as long as
the JPEGs are lossless then creating them should be no problem. I
did notice that these are not "transparent friendly", seemingly
designed only for a white background. In one spot (lower right of
circle) there is a white section used as a mask that won't work in
the long run.

Tyler
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On Wed, July 2, 2008 20:00, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

On 2-Jul-08, at 12:59 AM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:

However, I just committed the new logos in EPS, GIF and JPEG format
to the marketing/logos folder. If there's a need for other formats, let
me know so I can ask Ines. Otherwise this is it :slight_smile:

I'm looking at them now. It'd be nice to have PNG, but as long as
the JPEGs are lossless then creating them should be no problem. I did
notice that these are not "transparent friendly", seemingly designed only
for a white background. In one spot (lower right of circle) there is a
white section used as a mask that won't work in the long run.

Tyler

On Wed, July 2, 2008 20:00, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

On 2-Jul-08, at 12:59 AM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:

However, I just committed the new logos in EPS, GIF and JPEG format
to the marketing/logos folder. If there's a need for other formats, let
me know so I can ask Ines. Otherwise this is it :slight_smile:

I'm looking at them now. It'd be nice to have PNG, but as long as
the JPEGs are lossless then creating them should be no problem. I did
notice that these are not "transparent friendly", seemingly designed only
for a white background. In one spot (lower right of circle) there is a
white section used as a mask that won't work in the long run.

Tyler

Hi,
we can create the logos in various sizes and add them to the Wiki and
website as we did for the old one. I have now added a few cropped version
without page size white background to SVN:
OSGeo_Compass_test_transparent.png
OSGeo_Main_test_alpha_transprent.png
OSGeo_Main_test_white_border.png
OSGeo_Main_test_white_gigantic.png
OSGeo_Main_test_white.png

They are all still "test" because they have a strange color mix in light
green tones. Can this be adjusted so that it works with gimp directly?
Tyler, what did you use to make the logos as gif and jpg (we do not really
need JPEG, do we?)?

If you look at _gigantic in full resolution you can see some
irregularities on the top spine and right spines. Maybe this could be
smoothed out as it will show in big size cloths and as screen bakcground
in the Wiki (to some day replace the Wikipedia book).

How much border around the logo do we need
(OSGeo_Main_test_white_border.png one has 20 horizontal and 15 vertical)?
We should probably have versions with and without border.

Please check whether OSGeo_Main_test_alpha_transprent.png is transparent
in your browser. It would help if you could check with various browsers,
operating systems and software. I do not have a Microsoft Internet
Exploder 6 to test with but I know that the old logo was not transparent
but gray in some cases.

Best regards,
Arnulf.

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Arnulf Benno Christl
http://www.osgeo.org
OSGeo Board Member
+50.7342N +7.0707E

On 2-Jul-08, at 1:24 PM, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote:

Tyler, what did you use to make the logos as gif and jpg (we do not really
need JPEG, do we?)?

Jeroen put those ones in - I only made a single PNG but the quality really sucks because its from one of the JPEG :slight_smile: