[IAEP] Add Fedora logo to Sugar

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Just another suggestion, Australia have a native small marsupial called a
Sugar Glider.
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Glider

Small, highly adaptable and can quickly cover large distances by gliding.
Worth considering if you want to stay with the "Sugar" name. I have a
colleague who can help prepare an SVG logo if needed.

Regards Roland

2008/12/7 Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org>

> I've been pondering how to put this forward. I have not the intention
> of causing disruption, however I think this subject is very important.
>
> I was surprised that our main UI metaphor - a CHILD, the center of
> activities... a Symbol for Interacting and Sharing... would be
> restricted for our use as a community movement.
>
> Suddendly the XO was more like a "DELL" logo rather than a child to me.
> It made me a bit uncomfortable to think OLPC (with its track record of
> wise community decisions) could tell what I could or could not do with
> a vanilla sugar system.
>
> But now we're expected to embed another Copyrighted, Trademarked logo,
> that carries no meaning or significance for our target audience, nor
> any possible use in the user interface.
>
> In order to avoid an all out misunderstanding flame, please inform
> yourself of a similar problem on this Debian Bug:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622
>
> So I think the healthiest thing is for Sugar to make an all out
> contest for a Sugar Person and/or Mascot for the UI, and refuse any
> branding requests made by any computer manufacturer or GNU
> distribution.
>
> Another colorful if symbolical solution would be for me to fork sugar
> (call it Honey) and use the Honey Badger
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_badger) as our mascot (its
> sometimes refered to as Honey Weasel).
>
> By the way, I'm deploying largely on non OLPC hardware and not based
> on fedora quite soon. Really, at least a branch will have to exist for
> the rest of us?
>
> Sebastian
>
> 2008/12/6 Morgan Collett <morgan.collett at gmail.com>:
> > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 15:34, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> >> From http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Eben#Tasks:
> >>
> >> Add Fedora logo to Sugar
> >> We've agreed to include the Fedora logo in our Sugar distributions.
> >> (Is this an OLPC agreement, or something SugarLabs should be doing in
> >> general?) I've added some thoughts to the ticket (Trac #8767) , but
> >> I'd like to get some more feedback and finalize a plan so this doesn't
> >> become a last-minute problem.
> >>
> >> ~~~
> >>
> >> SugarLabs wants to help distributions ship Sugar but isn't in the
> >> distribution business itself. Distributions are free to take the code
> >> we release and modify it at will to better suit their interests. Now,
> >> if distros want to be able to incorporate their brands in the Sugar UI
> >> and would prefer not to have to apply their own patches to every
> >> release, we could devise some way for distros to brand their Sugars
> >> without patching code.
> >>
> >> Distro people: what would you like to do regarding branding?
> >
> > I'm quite happy with carrying a patch in the ubuntu packages, and I'm
> > sure it would be no problem for debian either. Ubuntu has its logo on
> > the GNOME panel with the Applications menu, so seems equivalent to
> > that.
> >
> > I think it would be good if the Sugar tarball releases carry no
> > specific logo by default (or perhaps a Sugar Labs logo?) with each
> > distro including OLPC patching in their desired logo. That would
> > ensure there is a well documented method to do the patch.
> >
> > Regards
> > Morgan
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>
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