Well, nothing against the official logo. It's only sad when OpenERP S.A. didn't even read/respond to our mail when we proposed our logo to be an official one around January 2010...
Raphaël Valyi Founder and ERP Consultant +55 21 3010 9965 http://www.akretion.com <http://www.akretion.com.br/> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:36 PM, "Borja López Soilán (Pexego)" < borj...@pexego.es> wrote: > Raphaël Valyi wrote: > > We already made it clear months ago we offer the Gimp logo of > openerpbrasil.org http://www.openerpbrasil.org/images/logo.jpg to any > other local community that want it (a few like the Dutch community asked > us). At some point we like the idea of a common logo showing a > global commitment/strength/momentum behind OpenERP. For the rest of the CMS, > it's not as obvious for us we can give it away, but we can certainly discuss > it when local community representatives have our trust. > > About logos, OpenERP S.A. proposed not long ago using something like this > (change "Spanish" to "Dutch", etc.): > > > > We already used variants of such logo on the Spanish localization > project<https://launchpad.net/openerp-spain> > . > > It's not the most beautiful logo, but it's already 'official' (that doesn't > means that communities cant add their own logos [your's looks good for me!], > but we should use this 'official' logos too). > > > > Finally something very important we had to fight against: we wanted the > localization project to be a neutral entry point. For us, integrator > neutrality was even way more important than features. What we wanted to > avoid are pseudo community portals such as www.openerp-france.fr or > www.openerp.net.br that look community oriented but are in fact the mail > trap of a single bastard integrator. We didn't want that to happen in Brasil > and got to fight hard to prevent it. We hope the real local OpenERP > communities aren't hijacked in other countries, we think OpenERP S.A. could > weight a bit to avoid people hijacking their image too since this is what > happens in this case: people that have nothing to do, no experience and will > likely fail any project they try are using their name/logo to trap their > victims. > > That's why Carlos is proposing to use xxx.openerp.com URLs to point to the > main community portals (for example http://br.openerp.com would be just an > alias for > http://www.openerpbrasil.org<http://www.openerpbrasil.org/images/logo.jpg>). > That would mean that: > > - The 'official' community portal would be ranked a bit better by > search indexes (Google, Bing), that would mean that users would find the > neutral communities before the pseudo-communities. > - If some community portal becomes 'hijacked', OpenERP S.A. could just > point the URL to another web any-time. > - It would be easier to find other countries communities :) > > > -- > Borja López soilánborj...@pexego.es > > Pexego Sistemas Informáticos S.L. > Avenida de Magoi 66 - 27002 Lugo (España) > Tel./Fax 982801517http://www.pexego.es > > > AVISO LEGAL - CLÁUSULA DE PRIVACIDAD > Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener > información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es usted el destinatario > indicado, queda informado de que la utilización, divulgación y/o copia sin > autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha > recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que nos lo comunique > inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. > >
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