E L Tonkin py7elt@bath.ac.uk wrote: <snip>
So maybe the best thing to do [read: least controversial] is simply to pick another obsecure animal and trust that just about everybody is going to get to know what the FSFE logo is pretty soon anyway. After all, they accepted the GNU logo and the symbolism of that is not in the least obvious. Or indeed one might go for a different sort of gnu. Or preferably some creature with optional bright colours such that you can happily stick it on a T-shirt. A puffin, for example... something geeks would want to wear. Nice, bright, simple, easy to draw... ;-)
<snip> *couldn't agree more*
Ok, here some idea's: O, yes: if an complicated Logo is chosen, it will attract complicated people, the same for funny Logo, creative Logo, happy Logo, abstract Logo and so on... So you can also take the queston "what kind of people do we want to attract", and create a Logo accordingly.
Animal: `emotional'-connection FSFE:
Gnu (wildebeast) stubborn? (looks kinda st. to me...) Linux-Penguin happy, no problems (this is all extremely personal, but anyway...) Blue background, yellow stars dunno ;-) flame I think this might associate with `going beond', idealism in a construcive way (??). Europa on Gnu-back with map Gives me a spring-feeling personnaly. Worm hmmm dog loyal, good friend etc. cat ...
Fish, birds, mammol (cat, dog/wolf, grass-eaters, bears, ...), insects (lots of them...), reptilian, non-vertibrans, (plants?, minerals?, fiction?).
What about a brick, just plain and simple.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:51:25AM +0100, josX wrote:
O, yes: if an complicated Logo is chosen, it will attract complicated people, the same for funny Logo, creative Logo, happy Logo, abstract Logo and so on... So you can also take the queston "what kind of people do we want to attract", and create a Logo accordingly. Animal: `emotional'-connection FSFE: Gnu (wildebeast) stubborn? (looks kinda st. to me...) Europa on Gnu-back with map Gives me a spring-feeling personnaly.
I agree. IMHO, we do not need to differ in our logo from the FSF. Lets draw the Gnu with an 'typical European' Symbol, maybe a map, or something like this. someone riding on a Gnu with the (olympic) fire in her hand is also a good idea, but I think, a Gnu has to be in the logo.
Eike
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Eike Lange wrote:
So you can also take the queston "what kind of people do we want to attract", and create a Logo accordingly.
IMHO, we do not need to differ in our logo from the FSF. Lets draw the Gnu with an 'typical European' Symbol, maybe
I'd go for the 12 stars and gnu inside, only I'd like to have a barely sketched gnu image instead of the FSF one. Fits the logo purpose _much_ better IMO. I have a clear image of what I mean in my mind, too bad I can't draw... :-)
And there should probably be some additional "font" (EUFSF?) logo for suitable, distinct uses.
Maybe I'm a little bit on the practical side here, but the argument that the logo should be "catchy" does not get to the point IMHO. A logo should be communicative (hence the GNU and the stars) and keep informative in the broadest contexts -- including engraving (looking forward to my EUFSF key fob!), 2-color printing and such.
my $0.02 (better still: my EUR 0.0225474)
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josX joshb@xs4all.nl wrote:
Animal: `emotional'-connection FSFE:
Gnu (wildebeast) stubborn? (looks kinda st. to me...) Linux-Penguin happy, no problems (this is all extremely personal, but anyway...)
I thought quite a while ago it was made clear that FSF != Linux - therefor Tux shouldn't be used as a symbol at all, no matter how fuzzy and stuffed with fish ;-)
-Jan