On Tuesday, October 23, 2012, Graham Lauder wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Andrea Pescetti > <pesce...@apache.org<javascript:;> > >wrote: > > > Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > > > On 10/22/12, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> > >>> hmmm...well, OK. I think I remember something like this now. Should we > >>> use Alexandro's new one at: > >>> > https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/download/**attachments/27834483/** > >>> ApacheOpenOfficeTM.svg< > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/27834483/ApacheOpenOfficeTM.svg > > > >>> > >> AFAIK there was no resolution on the fonts, the discussion ended on > >> asking Michael Acevedo, but he never replied. > >> > > > > Exactly. And this means we cannot use Alexandro's SVG since it is not a > > 100% reproduction of the bitmap by Michael Acevedo (the orb is perfectly > > done in SVG and it is the only SVG version of the orb we have available, > > since we never received one from Oracle; but the text has a slightly > > different formatting). > > > > The SVG was done by Alexandro from Michael's bitmap IIRC. Michael's was > never "official", it was just the one that happened to be available. There > was never any consensus that Michael's was going to be anything other than > a stop-gap for a first release from the ApacheOO podling. Going forward > there needs to be proposals and discussion and a new branding that reflects > the New OpenOffice. > > KG01 - agreed, lets start exploring design directions. I'll share my designs shortly. On training this week, just need some time at home office :)
> > > > We have two separate issues here: > > that reflects this community > > 1) Collecting and consolidating all versions of the logo we are using; > > here a 95% accuracy is not acceptable. These versions should be placed > > under http://www.openoffice.org/**images/AOO_logos/< > http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/>or anyway under SVN. > > > > 2) Collecting proposals that can be useful as inspiration for a new > visual > > identity; here it is of course acceptable to have variants of the > > "official" logos, but these should remain proposals and be placed in the > > wiki or such, possibly in pages that do not confuse a reader who types > > "OpenOffice logo" in a search engine. > > > > The new branding should have been discussed when I first brought it up last > year. Any logos that are in use now, are stopgaps nothing more. They are > simply rehashes of an old brand, we need shake off the Oracle detritus and > make our own mark, one that is owned and created by the Apache OpenOffice > community. > > Cheers > GL > > > > > > Regards, > > Andrea. > > >
