On 2017-02-16 14:09:53 -0500 (-0500), Dan Prince wrote: [...] > This isn't about aligning anything. It is about artistic control. The > foundation wants to have icons their way playing the "community card" > to make those who had icons they like conform. It is clear you buy into > this. > > Each team will have its own mascot anyway so does it really matter if > there is some deviation in the mix? I think not. We have a mascot we > like. It even fits the general requirements for OpenStack mascots so > all we are arguing about here is artistic style really. I say let the > developers have some leverage in this category... what is the harm > really? [...]
You're really reading far too much conspiracy into this. Keep in mind that this was coming from the foundation's marketing team, and while they've been very eager to interface with the community on this effort they may have failed to some degree in explaining their reasons (which as we all know leaves a vacuum where conspiracy theories proliferate). As I understand things there are some pages on the foundation-controlled www.openstack.org site where they want to refer to various projects/teams and having a set of icons representing them was a desire of the designers for that site, to make it more navigable and easier to digest. They place significant importance on consistency and aesthetics, and while that doesn't necessarily match my personal utilitarian nature I can at least understand their position on the matter. Rather than just words or meaningless symbols as icons they thought it would be compelling to base those icons on mascots, but to maintain the aesthetic of the site the specific renderings needed to follow some basic guidelines. They could have picked mascots at random out of the aether to use there, but instead wanted to solicit input from the teams whose work these would represent so that they might have some additional special meaning to the community at large. As I said earlier in the thread, if you have existing art you like then use that in your documentation, in the wiki, on team tee-shirts you make, et cetera. The goal is not to take those away. This is a simple need for the marketing team and foundation Web site designers to have art they can use for their own purposes which meets their relatively strict design aesthetics... and if that art is also something the community wants to use, then all the better but it's in no way mandatory. The foundation has no direct control over community members' choices here, nor have they attempted to pretend otherwise that I've seen. -- Jeremy Stanley __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
