Great start! Might be more effective if the back had some concrete examples and not just the slogans?
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was sitting (sans wifi) on the train earlier trying to think about > how we could really simplify, boil down and crystallise what the OKF > is about. I wanted to do this so that it is easier to explain to > people what we're about - and to give us focus in what we are doing. > The one sentence pitch! > > I concluded that there is not much that we do that can't - broadly > speaking - be lumped under either: > > * 'tools' (CKAN, Public Domain Works, Annotator, Open Literature...) > * or 'community' (events, competitions, hackdays, IRC, mailing > lists, working groups, blog, annotation sprints, etc). > > And the *main* motivating idea is the 'ecosystem' or 'commons' of > information/content/data/knowledge. > > Hence: "We work to build tools and communities around an open > knowledge commons that everyone is free to use, enjoy and share." > > Then I tried to capture these two main ideas in logos for 'tools' and > 'communities' based on the colourful bubbles that seems to be becoming > our house style. I created a basic flyer out of this: > > Front: http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5550671746/ > Back: http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5550671744/ > > Second (slightly more crowded) alternative for front: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5550734094/ > > I'd like to get something like this printed out as a nice double-sided > square flyer ASAP. The 'Please Share Me' refers to both open knowledge > - and to the physical flyer, which I intend to leave in relevant > places on my travels (on noticeboards, in hacker spaces, etc). > > What do people think? Good, bad, ugly? ;-) > > J. > > -- > Jonathan Gray > > Community Coordinator > The Open Knowledge Foundation > http://blog.okfn.org > > http://twitter.com/jwyg > http://identi.ca/jwyg > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
