Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-27 Thread Raul Miller
Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the GIMP contests specify that you need to use GIMP for creating the image. But you're right, there's really no way to check that. Also, there's a -- perhaps subtle -- difference using GIMP exclusively and using it as but one of a variety of

New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Before I'm going to confuse people: I didn't mean to start the whole voting procedure this soon; I should have worded that better. After asking around a bit and seeing the reactions here it looks like most people would like to see a new logo. The license is also troublesome (and very hard to find

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread James A. Treacy
I'd like to thank Wichert for taking on this thankless task. I'd also like to ask that we set strict criteria for what constitutes a logo. I don't feel like going back through the archives, but the criteria I remember off the top of my head are: Works in B+W (the official version may, of

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Steve Greenland
On 25-Jan-99, 19:06 (CST), Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with James Treacy's observation that we will probably need two logos: one logo with a liberal license that people can just freely, and another, more restricted logo for things like official CD's and so. To phrase

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Jim Pick
Why don't we officially not have an official logo? If 5 years from now, everybody likes a certain unofficial logo (ie. Debian equivalent of the BSD daemon), we could go with that. Cheers, - Jim

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Steve Greenland
On 25-Jan-99, 21:11 (CST), Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. It's creates a first-class and second-class logo. It creates, of course. I just love looking like an illiterate boob in front of several thousand people... Steve

RE: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 26-Jan-99 Wichert Akkerman wrote: [snipped the original] I'm all for this, lock stock and barrel. To select the winner we should form a small group of developers to select a top-10 from all submissions and use those as the other options for the

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 26-Jan-99 James A. Treacy wrote: I'd like to thank Wichert for taking on this thankless task. I'd also like to ask that we set strict criteria for what constitutes a logo. I don't feel like going back through the archives, but the criteria I remember

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 09:11:47PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: On 25-Jan-99, 19:06 (CST), Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with James Treacy's observation that we will probably need two logos: one logo with a liberal license that people can just freely, and another,

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, James A. Treacy wrote: I'd like to thank Wichert for taking on this thankless task. I'd also like to ask that we set strict criteria for what constitutes a logo. I don't feel like going back through the archives, but the criteria I remember off the top of my head are:

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Randy Edwards
I agree with James Treacy's observation that we will probably need two logos: one logo with a liberal license that people can just freely, and another, more restricted logo for things like official CD's and so. This seems like a logical solution. Having the official Debian logo could

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Steve Greenland wrote: On 25-Jan-99, 19:06 (CST), Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with James Treacy's observation that we will probably need two logos: one logo with a liberal license that people can just freely, and another, more restricted logo for

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Steve Greenland wrote: 1. We have to agree on *two* logos :-). No, we have to agree on a *set* of logos: we simply request that each submission consists of two logos. Wichert. -- == This combination of

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Daniel Martin
Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Steve Greenland wrote: On 25-Jan-99, 19:06 (CST), Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with James Treacy's observation that we will probably need two logos: one logo with a liberal license that people can just

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Daniel Martin wrote: If we are going to have a gimp.org done contest, I would like to see that the rules allow people to use things that are not gimp, but that are DFSG free software. I find the command-line pnm tools very useful in manipulating images, and it would be

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Raul Miller
Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whilst I have no objections to such a change in rules, I am baffled that anyone could prefer xpaint to gimp, even for drawing straight lines and ellipses. gimp won't run on smaller machines. Also, there's Rick Hohensee's caligraphic patch for (if I recall

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Darren Benham
On 26-Jan-99 Randy Edwards wrote: One question I had was out of the two options you list above, which category do you see our present logo falling into: the liberal license or the official logo? Or would this new logo contest be used to choose logos for both categories? Because of the

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Jules Bean wrote: Whilst I have no objections to such a change in rules, I am baffled that anyone could prefer xpaint to gimp, even for drawing straight lines and ellipses. Why is this a change in rules? I've never seen it written anywhere that you are obliged to use the gimp. I

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Wichert == Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jules Whilst I have no objections to such a change in rules, I am Jules baffled that anyone could prefer xpaint to gimp, even for Jules drawing straight lines and ellipses. Wichert Why is this a change in rules? I've never