Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2018-09-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 6:23 AM, Julie Marchant wrote: > Just a somewhat random suggestion: > > Perhaps "EOMA" should be spelled in lowercase, "eoma", next to the logo. > That would encourage people to speak it like a word, rather than saying > each letter in sequence ("ee-oh-em-aye"). I find

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2018-09-22 Thread Jean Flamelle
@Christopher, I would describe my issue with that interpretation as follows One doesn't transfer meters between traders. One can't transfer a measurement. Also, a measurement doesn't require difficulty by nature. We can always pull tape further, however, if one doesn't have enough money to count

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2018-09-21 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Saturday, September 22, 2018, Richard Wilbur wrote: > On Sep 21, 2018, at 20:02, Christopher Havel > wrote: > > […] > > Interesting economic scenario. I think it works best when the arbiter of > the exchange rate for goods is impartial. Otherwise the exchange rate > would be influenced by

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2018-09-21 Thread Richard Wilbur
On Sep 21, 2018, at 20:02, Christopher Havel wrote: > […] Interesting economic scenario. I think it works best when the arbiter of the exchange rate for goods is impartial. Otherwise the exchange rate would be influenced by biases. > if I've got my math right (sorry, I'm severely

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2018-09-21 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 3:02 AM, Christopher Havel wrote: > Forgive me chiming in with an admittedly esoteric viewpoint... but... > > What if "money" was a system of measurement, without intrinsic value...? > What I'm envisioning is a barter economy, i would hazard a guess that that would work

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2018-09-21 Thread Christopher Havel
Forgive me chiming in with an admittedly esoteric viewpoint... but... What if "money" was a system of measurement, without intrinsic value...? What I'm envisioning is a barter economy, regulated somewhat like communistic states do -- but using a standardized system of worth-measurement. So, say

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2018-09-21 Thread Jean Flamelle
I don't like the word empowerment much, because I don't like the word "power" as too vague and too loaded. "Money" acts as a sybil certificate in a massive anonymous support economy, a transfer-able proof-of-work. I don't believe the opposite capitalism and communism take opposite extremes, I

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2018-09-21 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 12:18 AM, Jean Flamelle wrote: > Without advance funds, > I don't believe free culture > can effectively get funded. money is empowerment, it is stored energy (potential energy). the key i found to a successful crowd-funding campaign was being able to explain the "why",

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2018-09-21 Thread Jean Flamelle
Hm, I understand that in practice. Just feels like a cop-out on paper. Does anyone know about a mailing-list with ethereum programmers who are as serious as Luke about getting stuff done the proper way? Contract security seems like a joke these days. And, for a VM with no hardware visibility,

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2018-09-21 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
. I would like > >>to point out that despite being a cultural figure (famous artist) in > >>the hacktivist community they previously lauched a multi-million > >>dollar successful indiegogo which caused them much heart ache (per > >>their blog) over legal contro

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-18 Thread Tor, the Marqueteur
On 18/03/17 15:48, John Luke Gibson wrote: > I'm not entirely sure why resolution should be relevant. Something > without small defining characteristics that are unclear or illegible > when the resolution is low might be desire-able, but I would assume so > long as any is still atleast 10 pt font

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-18 Thread John Luke Gibson
I'm not entirely sure why resolution should be relevant. Something without small defining characteristics that are unclear or illegible when the resolution is low might be desire-able, but I would assume so long as any is still atleast 10 pt font when shrunk to 3cm on its widest dimension, it

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-18 Thread John Luke Gibson
On 3/18/17, Mike Leimon wrote: > Okay, I feel like I should take a swing or two at this as well. > > In the following two cases, there isn't any special font being used. I'm > just using inkscape to trace out the characters that I want show... > > http://imgur.com/GrnfRHe > > Of

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-18 Thread Alain Williams
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 03:14:11PM -0700, Mike Leimon wrote: > http://i.imgur.com/jjUbFx5.png > ... > Oh and I have one more general comment about logo creation of this sort... > I think that > it is very important to make sure it will look good rendered in only black > and white because, >

[Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-18 Thread Mike Leimon
> The first one has something that looks suspiciously like a penis on the > bottom-right. > > I'm sure it doesn't look like that if you're an electrical engineer, or > whatever, but people -- especially kids and teenagers -- *will* see > that, and that's probably not the kind of attention EOMA

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 03:36:33PM +0100, Hrvoje Lasic wrote: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Julie Marchant wrote: > > > On 03/18/2017 03:37 AM, Mike Leimon wrote: > > > Okay, I feel like I should take a swing or two at this as well. > > > > > > In the following two cases,

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-18 Thread Hrvoje Lasic
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Julie Marchant wrote: > On 03/18/2017 03:37 AM, Mike Leimon wrote: > > Okay, I feel like I should take a swing or two at this as well. > > > > In the following two cases, there isn't any special font being used. I'm > > just using inkscape to

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 10:12:06AM -0400, Julie Marchant wrote: > On 03/18/2017 03:37 AM, Mike Leimon wrote: > > Okay, I feel like I should take a swing or two at this as well. > > > > In the following two cases, there isn't any special font being used. I'm > > just using inkscape to trace out

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-18 Thread Julie Marchant
On 03/18/2017 03:37 AM, Mike Leimon wrote: > Okay, I feel like I should take a swing or two at this as well. > > In the following two cases, there isn't any special font being used. I'm > just using inkscape to trace out the characters that I want show... > > http://imgur.com/GrnfRHe > > Of

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-18 Thread Bill Kontos
The second one look pretty nice. It gives me some more ideas too. I think it could use some symmetries, maybe on a circle. Time to revitalize my GIMP skills. I'll try to make something too. Besides logos are fun. On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Peter Carlson wrote: >

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-17 Thread John Luke Gibson
I'm still of the opinion that there should be some intersexuality with other groups, organizations, projects, events [historical or otherwise], and/or popular culture. :P No offense though(!), since it looks like ya put quite a bit of effort into those. On 3/17/17, Tor, the Marqueteur

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-17 Thread Christopher Havel
Let's try this again... Link to new album --> http://imgur.com/a/Zev1B The rest remains the same. ___ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-17 Thread John Luke Gibson
@Chris, isn't the acronym for Embedded Open Modular Architecture? On 3/17/17, John Luke Gibson wrote: > If that really was the very block font used by Gutenberg, that would > be interesting. > Wish the source for that stanza wasn't a book :c > > On 3/17/17, John Luke

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-17 Thread John Luke Gibson
If that really was the very block font used by Gutenberg, that would be interesting. Wish the source for that stanza wasn't a book :c On 3/17/17, John Luke Gibson wrote: > On 3/17/17, Wolfram Kahl wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 08:42:08PM -0400,

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-17 Thread Wolfram Kahl
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 08:42:08PM -0400, John Luke Gibson wrote: > What do y'all think of this letter E? Much more clear? > > http://txt.static.1001fonts.net/charmap/ttf/0/olde-english.regular.character-map-1.png > > Here is a link to the font download and license information (thankfully): > >

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-17 Thread John Luke Gibson
On 3/17/17, Tor, the Marqueteur wrote: > On 17/03/17 10:08, Peter Carlson wrote: >> For me it really only works in the list. As stand alone I think it would >> be a WTF moment. > > I have to agree that as a stand-alone logo, the E would be entirely lost > on most

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-17 Thread Tor, the Marqueteur
On 17/03/17 10:08, Peter Carlson wrote: > For me it really only works in the list. As stand alone I think it would > be a WTF moment. I have to agree that as a stand-alone logo, the E would be entirely lost on most people. Looks as much like random stuff settled in a crescent moon as it does an

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-17 Thread Peter Carlson
For me it really only works in the list. As stand alone I think it would be a WTF moment. On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 1:55 PM John Luke Gibson wrote: > I was wondering what people think of the Cloister Black letter E for > the EOMA logo. I can imagine that some people might

[Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-17 Thread John Luke Gibson
I was wondering what people think of the Cloister Black letter E for the EOMA logo. I can imagine that some people might find it hard to read or understand. Legible enough any one would suppose? http://www.deathnotenews.com/uploads/1/7/3/9/17393465/5192168_orig.png In case anyone is worried

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-30 Thread Julie Marchant
I seem to have misunderstood. I thought Alain was asking for a monochrome variant to be designed for people who want to use that (e.g. if it's easier to print monochrome on a computer card than color), but looking more closely, I can see that he just wanted to see what the proposed logo looked

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-30 Thread Allan Mwenda
Gonna have to agree, logo should work in black and white On January 30, 2017 4:50:35 PM GMT+03:00, Alain Williams wrote: >On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 08:33:46AM -0500, Julie Marchant wrote: >> On 01/30/2017 05:25 AM, Alain Williams wrote: >> > Unfortunately that is not good

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-30 Thread Julie Marchant
On 01/30/2017 05:25 AM, Alain Williams wrote: > Unfortunately that is not good enough ... you are assuming that people will > use > the monchrome version of the logo rather than just photocopying the colour one > on a monochrome copyier. You can easily prevent that with a trademark policy... and

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-30 Thread Alain Williams
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 01:55:49AM -0500, Julie Marchant wrote: > For monochrome, you could just convert all the edges between colors into > outlines. Unfortunately that is not good enough ... you are assuming that people will use the monchrome version of the logo rather than just photocopying

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-29 Thread Julie Marchant
I liked the one with a card sliding into a weirdly shaped blue circle. I'd say take that, smooth things out a bit, and make the visual look more definitively like something the card is being slotted into by hiding the right side of the card behind the blue thing. Kind of random, but really, who

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-29 Thread Allan Mwenda
I don't like it, I dunno. It's bland. On January 30, 2017 2:19:04 AM GMT+03:00, James L wrote: > >> Looks good. >> >> Could I ask you to produce variants of this: >> >> 1) without colour > >https://www.flickr.com/photos/151565999@N03/32445321752 > >> 2) low

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-29 Thread James L
> Looks good. > > Could I ask you to produce variants of this: > > 1) without colour https://www.flickr.com/photos/151565999@N03/32445321752 > 2) low resolution/small size 100p wide: https://www.flickr.com/photos/151565999@N03/32445321542 > 3) (1) & (2)

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-29 Thread Alain Williams
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 09:26:29PM -0500, James L wrote: > Here is my attempt at a KISS logo for EOMA68 (easily > adapted for other standards): > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/151565999@N03/32579869145 > > If you want me to post it somewhere else (or you want > the sources), you got to point

[Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-28 Thread James L
Here is my attempt at a KISS logo for EOMA68 (easily adapted for other standards): https://www.flickr.com/photos/151565999@N03/32579869145 If you want me to post it somewhere else (or you want the sources), you got to point me where to upload it. License: Whatever lkcl wants (otherwise

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-28 Thread Parobalth
> If it was really to be in honor of the modularity and progress of > blender, one would want to make the "O" not really in any particular > font, but to look exactly the shape blender logo, except without the > flay or the color scheme: a perfect solid-color circle within another > perfect

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-27 Thread Alexander Ross
Yea i really like this version. the black bar bugs me a bit tough. what about the card being more "fully inserted". So the edge is just/partly(?) in the edge of the circle? idk wondering what it would look like.. yea the cat suggestion was more for fun. i has opportunity we could say to take

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-27 Thread Allan Mwenda
I like this new logo it looks promising. Not feeling the yellow/orange for the font though and I'd probably bold it but yeah good stuff On January 28, 2017 12:03:02 AM GMT+03:00, Parobalth wrote: >After reading all replies and thinking about them I realized that I >have

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-27 Thread John Luke Gibson
lture. We don't need to be entirely original as we have a >>>>history to fall back on. However originality might also help >>>>distinguish us from our predecessors, the last thing we want is to >>>>fail to distinguish ourselves from your neighborhood corporation. >

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-27 Thread Parobalth
After reading all replies and thinking about them I realized that I have unintentionally made some mistakes and also did not communicate clear enough. Because of the discussion about intel-cards and chinese clones I took inspiration from other certification marks and sigils. What I called a

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-27 Thread Allan Mwenda
;>> >>>I would recommend Luke to contact Wenqing Yang a.k.a. "Yummei", using >>>the notability of the project to attract their attention. I would >like >>>to point out that despite being a cultural figure (famous artist) in >>>the hacktivist community

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-27 Thread John Luke Gibson
;dollar successful indiegogo which caused them much heart ache (per >>their blog) over legal controversy with so-called partners and their >>personal admonishment that they failed to do enough. >> >>>From: Alexander Ross <maillist_arm-netb...@aross.me> >

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-26 Thread Julie Marchant
Just a somewhat random suggestion: Perhaps "EOMA" should be spelled in lowercase, "eoma", next to the logo. That would encourage people to speak it like a word, rather than saying each letter in sequence ("ee-oh-em-aye"). I find that non-technical people tend to default to the latter when they

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-26 Thread Allan Mwenda
;their blog) over legal controversy with so-called partners and their >personal admonishment that they failed to do enough. > >>From: Alexander Ross <maillist_arm-netb...@aross.me> >>To: Linux on small ARM machines <arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk> >>Cc: >>Date: Wed

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-01-25 Thread Alexander Ross
this all these efforts, got me to have a play around too. :) i was started having a go at one idea of letters inserting into each other kinda like a module. I had put E and O in side the M. it then kinda looked like/spelled Meoo like a cat. So what about a darn cat logo? maybe a cat playing with