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 o

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

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 w

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 t

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 reca

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 woul

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

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 byte

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

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 p

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 ar

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 > > anot

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 rememb

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 offic

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 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, 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 phras

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 course