Hi everyone,
a lot of people on this list want to have a t-shirt with Anjas work of "Europa on the GNU." So does the core team.
Anja and I have been talking on the phone about several issues last Friday and she agreed to do it.
Therefore the FSF Europe will hire Anja to do a vector-based version of it that is suitable for a t-shirt. This t-shirt will be the first FSF Europe item. Hopefully many more will follow.
Regards, Georg
"Georg C. F. Greve" wrote:
Hi everyone,
a lot of people on this list want to have a t-shirt with Anjas work of "Europa on the GNU." So does the core team.
Anja and I have been talking on the phone about several issues last Friday and she agreed to do it.
Therefore the FSF Europe will hire Anja to do a vector-based version of it that is suitable for a t-shirt. This t-shirt will be the first FSF Europe item. Hopefully many more will follow.
Regards, Georg
May they be available in time for LinuxExpo at Milan in June (6-7)?
Hi Simo and all!
Simo Sorce wrote on May 17, 2001 at 09:17PM +0200:
May they be available in time for LinuxExpo at Milan in June (6-7)?
I'll do my best to get the vector version finished as soon as possible; if things go well, it will be ready within a week. I don't know how much time it takes to print the t-shirts, though; hopefully others can answer this.
Best wishes,
Anja
Hello, everyone,
Georg C. F. Greve wrote on May 17, 2001 at 11:51AM +0200:
Therefore the FSF Europe will hire Anja to do a vector-based version of it that is suitable for a t-shirt.
I appreciate this as a sign of good will. However, I am going to donate it to the FSFE and to everyone who wants to support Free Software in Europe. The vector version will be published under a GPL-style licence, so you can either wear an "official" FSFE t-shirt or print your own (allowing for individual size / color / style / whatever).
As the "Gnu and Europa" motive is not going to be a logo, leaving out details is no longer the primary issue. I collected the three versions you already know along with a couple of variations on one of them and links to actual gnu images on the following page:
http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~anja/gnu/lineart/
Please let me know which image you prefer (or combinations of them). I will try to incorporate your preferences into the final version.
Best wishes,
Anja
Dear Anja!
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:04:29AM +0200, Anja Gerwinski wrote:
I appreciate this as a sign of good will. However, I am going to donate it to the FSFE and to everyone who wants to support Free Software in Europe. The vector version will be published under a GPL-style licence, so you can either wear an "official" FSFE t-shirt or print your own (allowing for individual size / color / style / whatever).
:-)))
details is no longer the primary issue. I collected the three versions you already know along with a couple of variations on one of them and links to actual gnu images on the following page:
... again, could you please be so kind to number them. Thanks!
Please let me know which image you prefer (or combinations of them). I will try to incorporate your preferences into the final version.
I like the rightmost one of the original logo proposals best. The map in the background and the text around look really good. I wonder, if we could use a real picture of Europe from a satellite, similar to the ones on the xplanet home page (http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/) instead of the single color map. And yes, since it is no logo anymore, the gnu and Europa could include more details. But it might well be too, that the more simpler version actually looks better.
Bye, Marc
PS: Which free software program will you use, to create the vector version of it? Guess, you're not going to edit a postscript file by hand as I usually do it. :-( _______________________________________________________________________________
email: marc@greenie.net email: m.a.eberhard@aston.ac.uk, web: http://www.aston.ac.uk/~eberhama/
Hi Mark,
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:12:42AM +0100, Marc Eberhard wrote:
PS: Which free software program will you use, to create the vector version of it? Guess, you're not going to edit a postscript file by hand as I usually do it. :-( ___________________________________________________________________________
It is nice to meet someone else who uses just a text editor to create postscript files! (see for instance: http://quark.fe.up.pt/tux.ps)
Perhaps we should get together and optimize Anja's postscript version (when it is done) to make it fit into a four-line signature file :-)
Regards, Jaime
Hi Marc and all!
Marc Eberhard wrote on May 21, 2001 at 08:12AM +0100:
details is no longer the primary issue. I collected the three versions you already know along with a couple of variations on one of them and links to actual gnu images on the following page:
... again, could you please be so kind to number them. Thanks!
OK
Please let me know which image you prefer (or combinations of them). I will try to incorporate your preferences into the final version.
I like the rightmost one of the original logo proposals best. The map in the background and the text around look really good.
Just to be sure there is no misunderstanding: The image with map and Latin motto currently serves as a sample only. Please look at the gnu sketches only for the moment and tell me which looks most gnu-ish to you. The final version will have map, drop shadow and motto, too, but at the moment, I am working on the line art part since this is the central element.
I wonder, if we could use a real picture of Europe from a satellite, similar to the ones on the xplanet home page (http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/) instead of the single color map.
Thanks for the info. I'll look into it.
PS: Which free software program will you use, to create the vector version of it? Guess, you're not going to edit a postscript file by hand as I usually do it. :-(
I am using xfig and / or sketch with and without autotrace (with and without pstoedit). Each has have some advantages and disadvantages. I can tell you afterwards which of them I used mostly.
http://homepages.go.com/~martweb/AutoTrace.htm http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/1958/pstoedit/ http://sketch.sourceforge.net/ http://www.xfig.org/
Kudos to Frank Heckenbach for much appreciated help with autotrace :-)
Regards,
Anja
Hello,
Anja Gerwinski wrote on May 22, 2001 at 01:38AM +0200:
Just to be sure there is no misunderstanding: The image with map and Latin motto currently serves as a sample only. Please look at the gnu sketches only for the moment and tell me which looks most gnu-ish to you. The final version will have map, drop shadow and motto, too, but at the moment, I am working on the line art part since this is the central element.
Anja Gerwinski anja@44615166.theo-phys.uni-essen.de writes:
The server apparently does not exist any more; I don't know where the project moved. If anyone wants a copy of autotrace I can mail it (the tarball has 120kB, the documentation 65kB, and it's GPL-ed).
The software itself is still available at sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/autotrace
The problems with the homepage have been discussed on the autotrace mailing list in early may with a few suggestions for solutions, but apparently there's no new homepage up yet.
Bernhard
Anja Gerwinski wrote:
As the "Gnu and Europa" motive is not going to be a logo, leaving out details is no longer the primary issue. I collected the three versions you already know along with a couple of variations on one of them and links to actual gnu images on the following page:
Most funnyly, I like the first draft (1a) best. This gnu looks strong and wild, not willing to eat the same non-free grass everyone else is satified with, and it makes a nice contrast to the lovely princess Europa. :)
The version without the eyes (2a) looks a little unfriendly for me.
The gnus in (3[a-d]) have too few details to be interesting on a T-shirt, IMHO.
The gnus in (3[ef]) seem somewhat too philosophical to me. It looks as if the gnu was thinking about freedom, licensing etc. (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/), not if it was running in order to bring princess Europa to a place where all software is Free.
Just my two centiEuro,
Peter
Hello,
As the "Gnu and Europa" motive is not going to be a logo, leaving out details is no longer the primary issue. I collected the three versions you already know along with a couple of variations on one of them and links to actual gnu images on the following page:
Most funnyly, I like the first draft (1a) best. This gnu looks strong and wild, not willing to eat the same non-free grass everyone else is satified with, and it makes a nice contrast to the lovely princess Europa. :)
100% agree
Greetings Dieter
|| On Sat, 26 May 2001 17:15:09 +0200 || Peter Gerwinski peter@gerwinski.de wrote:
pg> Most funnyly, I like the first draft (1a) best. This gnu looks pg> strong and wild, not willing to eat the same non-free grass pg> everyone else is satified with, and it makes a nice contrast to pg> the lovely princess Europa. :)
Me too.
Regards, Georg