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A consistent logo is part of creating a brand. The three dot logo is the image associated with the Plone brand. The Foundation protects the logo and gives permissions to use the Plone logo and as such, they get the final word on how anyone uses the Plone logo. (as it should be) Any use of the Plone logo, or alteration of, should be consistent with the Plone brand. No matter what potential user Plone comes across, we should always look professional. The three dot logo is clean, classic and professional. As such, any use of the Plone logo should follow in suit. Plone should look like, well, Plone. It's our own look. Plone ( the software) can have corporate appeal or it can have educational appeal or it can have hacker guy who lives in his mom's basement appeal. But it can all be the same imagery because it's Plone's brand. Any usage of the Plone logo needs to be a polished look....not necessarily corporate, not necessarily home grown, but finished and polished. Plone the software will survive and thrive as we continue to refine Plone the brand. We're doing pretty good on the software end of things. We need to keep working at the branding end of things. All uses of the Plone logo, be it WPD, the conference, or a sprint, need to be polished and refined and fall into line with the Plone brand. The logo idea presented is good in concept, but not in execution and I think Tim was up front with that caveat. So use it as inspiration for something that's fun for WPD but still works for Plone the brand. JoAnna Hi All, I hardly think selling to the State Government of NSW and Federal Government of Australia are corporate bums. Government in Australia are very conservative and are accustomed to dealing with large software corporations. So yes to compete and bring the benefits of open source to Government, Plone will need become more corporate in its appeal. If this doesnt happen I fear Plone will not survive. Chris, you must be in a very good finanical position where you can choose your clients and "discount corporate bums". -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Further-call-for-help-with-WPD-Logo-tp1111461p1116929.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Evangelism mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
