[OSGeo-Discuss] Terms of logo use and linking

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Hi guys,
There has been some discussion around all that you mentioned, the latest was through the Visibility Committee and education lists, e.g.:
https://edu.osgeo.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=245

The discussion has been somewhat disjointed, because it is confusing to think about who is best to work on these problems. The ball is in the Visibility Committee's court, though the committee could sure use some help.

Here is the OSGeo logo in various formats:

Michael Gerlek (viscom chair) has a proposal to clean up the logo and develop all the various formats of the logo, etc. that we could need. So that just needs a bit of time. In the meantime, I will upload the .eps and .ai formats of the logo shortly.

https://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/logo/index.html

Unless you are desperate, I don't think you should use the logos at this URL any more since we do have them in more accessible formats now.

The other issue is logo usage policy. Again, it is the visibility committee's responsibility at the moment to draft up logo usage policy guidelines. If anyone else has time to help pull something together, please join the visibility committee mailing list and let us know - we could use the help. If our committee cannot pull something together in the next or so, then the board will have to hand the job to someone else.

Hope that adds some clarity for you.

If you have a good source for providing business cards, can you also let me know?

Tyler

On 24-Sep-06, at 8:56 AM, (Orkney)Toru Mori wrote:

Hi,

Mateusz Loskot <mateusz@loskot.net> wrote：

Here is the OSGeo logo in various formats:

https://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/logo/index.html

It is what I wanted to see. Thanks.
But we will have to make another vote for selecting which type of examples
would fit into Japanese style business card.... :slight_smile:

I'm only concerned about formal conditions, a licensing.

Me, too. And layout guidelines.

Toru Mori

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Tyler wrote:

If our committee cannot pull something together in the next or
so, then the board will have to hand the job to someone else.

I *think* I understand the general issue Tyler is getting at, but the message itself is a little off-putting.

If there's an implication by someone that VisCom needs to do more, then please do speak up and be specific. I'll be the first to admit that we are / I am overcommitted-- but using volunteer-based resources I don't see VisCom able to be very useful anytime soon, outside of the areas we are already trying to cover.

Unless anyone has any other suggestions, I think VisCom will and should continue to just react to the specific things that arise that touch the interests and abilities of our committee membership -- which means a number of things are going to have to just get set aside.

-mpg,
  who is more than a little overwhelmed by email upon his return from the PRC

-----Original Message-----
From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:tylermitchell@shaw.ca]
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 9:18 AM
To: discuss@mail.osgeo.org
Cc: OSGeo-VisCom
Subject: [VisCom] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Terms of logo use and linking

Hi guys,
There has been some discussion around all that you mentioned, the
latest was through the Visibility Committee and education lists, e.g.:
https://edu.osgeo.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=245

The discussion has been somewhat disjointed, because it is confusing
to think about who is best to work on these problems. The
ball is in
the Visibility Committee's court, though the committee could
sure use
some help.

>> Here is the OSGeo logo in various formats:

Michael Gerlek (viscom chair) has a proposal to clean up the
logo and
develop all the various formats of the logo, etc. that we could
need. So that just needs a bit of time. In the meantime, I will
upload the .eps and .ai formats of the logo shortly.

>> https://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/logo/index.html

Unless you are desperate, I don't think you should use the logos at
this URL any more since we do have them in more accessible
formats now.

The other issue is logo usage policy. Again, it is the visibility
committee's responsibility at the moment to draft up logo usage
policy guidelines. If anyone else has time to help pull something
together, please join the visibility committee mailing list and let
us know - we could use the help. If our committee cannot pull
something together in the next or so, then the board will have to
hand the job to someone else.

Hope that adds some clarity for you.

If you have a good source for providing business cards, can you also
let me know?

Tyler

On 24-Sep-06, at 8:56 AM, (Orkney)Toru Mori wrote:

> Hi,

>
> Mateusz Loskot <mateusz@loskot.net> wrote：
>> Here is the OSGeo logo in various formats:
>>
>> https://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/logo/index.html
>
> It is what I wanted to see. Thanks.
> But we will have to make another vote for selecting which type of
> examples
> would fit into Japanese style business card.... :slight_smile:
>
>> I'm only concerned about formal conditions, a licensing.
> Me, too. And layout guidelines.
>
> Toru Mori
>

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From: "Michael P. Gerlek" <mpg@lizardtech.com>

If there's an implication by someone that VisCom needs to do more,
then please do speak up and be specific. I'll be the first to
admit that we are / I am overcommitted-- but using volunteer-based
resources I don't see VisCom able to be very useful anytime soon,
outside of the areas we are already trying to cover.

I don't think there is any implying going on, just more 'hot potatoe' with the whole logo/logo use/image topic. The board sees that the logo usage issues have to be ironed out sooner than later. Since it's already on our plate (or somewhere on our todo list) to put up some usage guidelines, then we should still try to. But if we can't do it soon-ish then the board will still want to find a way to get it done. If that makes sense...

But I think your trademark page is already a good start.

Tyler