On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Kevin Grignon <kevingrignon...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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 > :) > > I like the "Flying Page" idea you proposed on the wiki, once we have a pallet I'd like to explore that further. I'm working on a graphic text for the logo, I'll post some ideas tonight my time. Cheers GL > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > >
