[Arm-netbook] Logos

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

Proprietary OSes and even no OS in the case of FPGAs is permitted, they
just cant put in DRM, and the Certification costs which are waived for
libre projects will be a LOT.

On Friday, January 27, 2017, John Luke Gibson <eaterjolly at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are two ways to interprete that bear in mind.
> We probably want the logo to contain libre (or references/parts
> thereof), but you would be right to say we probably don't want libre
> itself in the logo.
>
> We don't want to hinge too much on the fact we promote libre, because
> optimally libre would be ~~assumed~~ in all things computer. We don't
> want to set the theme that it should be a buzz word, however it should
> represent a standard of the way things simply should be.
>
> That being said, while we don't want libre to symbolize eoma, we still
> want eoma to symbolize libre and we still want a logo which reminds
> people of that and allows the one's who care to take solace in the
> presence of our logo. Don't forget!
>
> On 1/27/17, Allan Mwenda <allanitomwesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Definitely no cats too.
> > I think the caps font used in the logo example previously is great.
> > Adding to that, I think we should not put libre in the logo. If someone
> > wants that let them sweat extra for RYF certification.
> >
> >
> > On January 26, 2017 10:04:56 AM GMT+03:00, John Luke Gibson
> > <eaterjolly at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>I would highly recommend avoiding any logos, without proper historical
> >>reference. One of the problems with traditional Linux icons, are that
> >>they are very un-iconic. It's better to be textually based, in my
> >>opinion, than to use disorienting imagery. At this point, most of the
> >>clay has already set so referencing/alluding-to other gnu projects
> >>[such as blender] wouldn't be detrimental, however ascii has a very
> >>richer history of use by "hacktivists".
> >>
> >>Referencing some historically relevant (to "hacktivism") ascii
> >>iconography either overtly or subtly, kindof more or less as a hat tip
> >>to communities which support said historical events will cause the
> >>logo a greater likelihood of being regarded as iconic. I wish I had
> >>specific examples, but possibly using cloister black font would be a
> >>subtle hat tip to anonymous for some individuals use of various
> >>letters in that font as copy-cat of L from Death Note.
> >>
> >>Another thing of note, would be that we need to be careful who we tip
> >>our hats to, to be careful of who in the future people might assume us
> >>to endorse. A font is innocuous enough, that it can be adapted later
> >>due to circumstance (should a need arise to disassociate) without
> >>damaging the recognize-ability of any logo.
> >>
> >>The universal and modular style of blender, is a good point to mimic.
> >>A solid dot in the center of the "O" would probably be a subtle enough
> >>correlation to the blender logo.
> >>
> >>This is the pattern of thinking we need in developing logos and
> >>"slogans".
> >>
> >>Thinking about what sounds catchy only correlates us with random
> >>corporate culture. We don't need to be entirely original as we have a
> >>history to fall back on. However originality might also help
> >>distinguish us from our predecessors, the last thing we want is to
> >>fail to distinguish ourselves from your neighborhood corporation.
> >>
> >>I would recommend Luke to contact Wenqing Yang a.k.a. "Yummei", using
> >>the notability of the project to attract their attention. I would like
> >>to point out that despite being a cultural figure (famous artist) in
> >>the hacktivist community they previously lauched a multi-million
> >>dollar successful indiegogo which caused them much heart ache (per
> >>their blog) over legal controversy with so-called partners and their
> >>personal admonishment that they failed to do enough.
> >>
> >>>From: Alexander Ross <maillist_arm-netbook at aross.me>
> >>>To: Linux on small ARM machines <arm-netbook at lists.phcomp.co.uk>
> >>>Cc:
> >>>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:07:15 +0000
> >>>Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos
> >>>this all these efforts, got me to have a play around too. :)
> >>>
> >>> i was started having a go at one idea of letters inserting into each
> >>> other kinda like a module.
> >>>
> >>> I had put E and O in side the M. it then kinda looked like/spelled
> >>Meoo
> >>> like a cat.
> >>> So what about a darn cat logo? maybe a cat playing with a eoma68 card
> >>in
> >>> its paws?
> >>>
> >>> sry for the yet another internet cat image type of suggestion, never
> >>> thought id be making one heh.
> >>
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