On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Heidi Joy Tretheway <[email protected]> wrote: > Answering a few questions: > > Snip: "Just a little strange for a community-driven open source project to > be replacing community-created mascots with top-down designs. I'm not > terribly opposed to it, but would have definitely preferred if this had come > across as a request instead of a mandate. I think it's cool and unique that > the Ironic mascot was designed/drawn by one of our more prolific > contributors (Lucas), and we'll lose some of that shine with a less-unique > logo.” > > This is a request, not a mandate - you’re not required to choose a mascot. > :-) We’re alerting you to the design resource that’s now available to you. > We’ve done our best to honor community preferences by giving those projects > with existing mascots priority to keep them. Because illustration styles > vary widely, having a single illustrator allows us to create branding > consistency while still keeping the content (mascot) unique to the project > and chosen by the project team. We also reached out to PTLs last week to ask > for questions/concerns. > > I think we could all be easily bribed if the foundation provided copious > amounts of stickers to contributors with the new mascot designs on them. :P > > There are stickers in the works for sure! And I hope to create some > additional awesomeness, depending on budget. > > What if a project doesn't come up with a mascot? Does the Foundation pick > one for that project? > > If you don’t select a mascot, don’t worry—we won’t pick one for you. We’ll > be happy to create a text-only treatment of just your project name. Our > intent is to use the logos across openstack.org, Summit branding, and other > marketing materials to promote your project. You’ll also get the image file > and you can use it in your presentations or to create more swag if you like. > > Overall, the response to this has been hugely positive and we have more than > half of project PTLs responding so far. More questions are very welcome.
Why so much restrictions on the logo? Someone from my group proposed: https://drive.google.com/a/mirantis.com/file/d/0BzWdugYdps1nMmNJTFBfaDNPZXM/view?usp=sharing Isn't it "conventional"? I would like to understand why we restrict to animals / nature things. Thanks, -- Emilien Macchi __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
