[Sugar-devel] logo dicussion

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org> wrote:

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> 2017-09-14 7:00 GMT-05:00 Samson Goddy <samsongoddy at gmail.com>:
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>> On Sep 14, 2017 12:52 PM, "Laura Vargas" <laura at somosazucar.org> wrote:
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>> 2017-09-14 6:36 GMT-05:00 Samson Goddy <samsongoddy at gmail.com>:
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>>> I didn't wanted to reply earlier because i wanted to be sure what the
>>> discussion was all about. I perfectly understand Sebastian worries. But as
>>> walter mention Sugar Labs was a spinoff of OLPC and that is why the logo is
>>> still present. Now, what i think we should do is to ask SLOBS if we want to
>>> make these changes, make a good logo, the present one from Sebastian is
>>> good but it is similar to Gnome logo. So we should calm them design a new
>>> one that if SLOBS approve the chnages.
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>>> As for me, leaving the XO logo from Sugar is a smart move to marketing,
>>> our goal is to make Sugar available to all users not just OLPC by doing
>>> that we should have Sugar OS logo to make things neutral.
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>>> Sebastian, since you co-sign the agreement could you please take my
>>> suggestions and make things official by take it to SLOBS make design open
>>> for members to agree on a design because the current one for me is not
>>> acceptable.
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>> Samson,
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>> Old trademarked OLPC logo is gone now.
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>> If you think the one proposed by Sebastian is "not acceptable" you must
>> explain your reasons. For me it is.
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>> Very similar to Gnome logo
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> I was chating here with my Gnome friends and we have come to a tag line:
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> "To jump in one foot you must firts learn to stand up in two"
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> She loved it!
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>> As I have said earlier, am all for a Sugar Marathon Design. You in?
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>> Sugar Marathon Design??
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>> We don't we do an Open Logo competition online and share with members for
>> our users to design good logo, reflecting what sugar is. Like how Sugar
>> Labs logo came alive.
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> Am all for open dynamics still I prefer collaborative dynamics rather than
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> A Sugar Design Marathon can be done if it is the Board will, by asking all
> community members to synchronize for ~15 intensive days with a design team
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> I look forward to see Community working together productively.
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> What do you think?
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I think that (1) we should resolve the status of the XO icon before rushing
into anything and (2) it would seem that the role of SLOB would be to ask
the design team to do its job, not to do it for them.

-walter


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> Regards
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>> Regards
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>> --
>> Laura V.
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> --
> Laura V.
> * I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org*
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> “Solo la tecnología libre nos hará libres.”
> ~ L. Victoria
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> Happy Learning!
> #LearningByDoing
> #Projects4good
> #IDesignATSugarLabs
> #WeCanDoBetter
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