Re: Brand Guidelines Update

2011-05-02 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 15:13 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Allan: The question seems to be what the most appropriate place for this content is. Can the specification of our logo usage sit on the same page as a potentially looser set of branding guidelines and still perform its legal

Re: Brand Guidelines Update

2011-04-29 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 22:07 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Hi Allan, Allan Day wrote: I wasn't aware that the brand guidelines are official or legal documents. They are guidelines. Maybe the foundation should bless them with officialdom... I'm not sure what that would achieve though. It's

Re: Brand Guidelines Update

2011-04-28 Thread Brian Cameron
Allan: We typically have our lawyers review official documents that relate to legal issues such as trademark before we make changes to them. Is this because the Wiki version of our Guidelines is not yet official? Most official GNOME legal documents should probably be in

Re: Brand Guidelines Update

2011-04-28 Thread Allan Day
Brian Cameron wrote: Allan: We typically have our lawyers review official documents that relate to legal issues such as trademark before we make changes to them. Is this because the Wiki version of our Guidelines is not yet official? Most official GNOME legal documents should probably be

Re: Brand Guidelines Update

2011-04-28 Thread Brian Cameron
Allan: On 04/28/11 08:32 AM, Allan Day wrote: Brian Cameron wrote: Allan: We typically have our lawyers review official documents that relate to legal issues such as trademark before we make changes to them. Is this because the Wiki version of our Guidelines is not yet official? Most

Re: Brand Guidelines Update

2011-04-28 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 08:59 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Allan: On 04/28/11 08:32 AM, Allan Day wrote: Brian Cameron wrote: Allan: We typically have our lawyers review official documents that relate to legal issues such as trademark before we make changes to them. Is this because the

Re: Brand Guidelines Update

2011-04-28 Thread Brian Cameron
Allan: On 04/28/11 10:12 AM, Allan Day wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 08:59 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Refer to section 1.a.iii, which requires GNOME Users Groups to follow these Brand Guidelines. Since we provide such direction in a document that GNOME Users Groups sign, I would consider it

Re: Brand Guidelines Update

2011-04-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Allan, Allan Day wrote: I wasn't aware that the brand guidelines are official or legal documents. They are guidelines. Maybe the foundation should bless them with officialdom... I'm not sure what that would achieve though. It's to do with sucky trademark laws. If you trademark something,

Brand Guidelines Update

2011-04-27 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I spent some time elaborating our brand guidelines [1] today. The sections that I added are marked as draft status. Feedback would be welcome. To date, the guidelines only addressed the GNOME logo and its usage. My aim with the update is to expand them to cover terminology and additional