Re: Branding for Debian derivatives

2006-09-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 04:59:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: (a) a nice logo standing for based on Debian, that derivatives can use So a little over a month later [0], here's all the ideas we have so far: 1) Foo Linux is Debian -- distilled. We've taken the best bits

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives

2006-09-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au 1.b) http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/tmp/distilled4.png (created by Dana Sibera, aka Danamania, SVG available) For the record, I like this - especially the upper variant - better than my own proposal. The ability to

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives

2006-09-05 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:11, Anthony Towns wrote:    2) Debian rolls out the red carpet for Foo Linux          2.a) http://henning.makholm.net/debian/debianbased.png I like the carpet metaphor. (... and I never liked the bottle) Less whitespace in the logo:

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives

2006-07-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony Towns wrote: So, following the discussions at DebConf [0], the Debian Powered logo ideas [1], and a couple of other chats I've had the privelege of having with some folks working on Debian derivatives and Debian-based distros and similar things, I'd like us to introduce an official

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives -- Debian Distilled

2006-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 01:36:55AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: I personally like the bottled and unrough swirl ideas quite much, but I wouldn't like to loose the Official logo for that. But if someone with design abilities would prepare e.g. a transparent bottle with an unrough swirl inside,

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives -- Debian Distilled

2006-07-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 03:41:27PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: As a more general comment: please avoid logos made by people with no design clue (I'm fully in the category people with no design clue at all). Don't get me wrong: I fully appreciate the efforts made by people to mock up logo

Branding for Debian derivatives

2006-07-29 Thread Anthony Towns
Hi all, So, following the discussions at DebConf [0], the Debian Powered logo ideas [1], and a couple of other chats I've had the privelege of having with some folks working on Debian derivatives and Debian-based distros and similar things, I'd like us to introduce an official branding programme

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives -- Debian Distilled

2006-07-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 04:59:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: The other question is what logo we should use that sums up our ideas about derivatives, and is pretty and that people want to use. I'd *love* to hear ideas for that; I'll also followup with a sketch of an idea I think is possible.

snapshot.d.net mirror (Re: Branding for Debian derivatives)

2006-07-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-29 16:59]: That would require us to maintain an essentially permanent archive for source packages, which at the moment we don't. But doing so would be useful for us too, no? By the way, can you please authorize funds to buy (or find a sponsor for)

Re: snapshot.d.net mirror (Re: Branding for Debian derivatives)

2006-07-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 09:48:40AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-29 16:59]: That would require us to maintain an essentially permanent archive for source packages, which at the moment we don't. But doing so would be useful for us too, no? By the

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives -- Debian Distilled

2006-07-29 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au Okay, so this is just my idea. Add grains of salt to taste, etc. The idea is to take the Debian official use logo [0] which we've never really made much use of, and declare it the logo for derivatives instead. Add the word distilled [1]

Re: snapshot.d.net mirror (Re: Branding for Debian derivatives)

2006-07-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-29 16:59]: That would require us to maintain an essentially permanent archive for source packages, which at the moment we don't. But doing so would be useful for us too, no? By the way, can you please authorize funds to

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives -- Debian Distilled

2006-07-29 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/29/2006 06:13 AM, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au Okay, so this is just my idea. Add grains of salt to taste, etc. The idea is to take the Debian official use logo [0] which we've never really made much

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives -- Debian Distilled

2006-07-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Anthony Towns [Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:11:40 +1000]: Okay, so this is just my idea. Add grains of salt to taste, etc. The idea is to take the Debian official use logo [0] which we've never really made much use of, and declare it the logo for derivatives instead. Add the word distilled [1]