Well, the EOMA68-A20 is only fully libre in the libre tea card version.
Now that I think further into it, are the standard/hardware designs some sort of copyleft to compell third parties to also share their card designs back?
Anyway, it is very likely that if someone else picks this up, who isn't as diligent as Luke, they will make a not so libre card and try passing it off as libre using the logo (if it says so in the eoma logo, and the card passes eoma certification) FSFs definition is the strictest and the RYF certification is already worth its weight, in that, if you can convince FSF something is libre, there's very little chance it isn't. A good example is the Librem 13 laptop, which was initially marketed as libre ( but wasn't even close) which breezed it through funding and is now marketed as "privacy respecting" after failing RYF.


On January 27, 2017 12:39:46 PM GMT+03:00, John Luke Gibson <eaterjolly@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@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@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I would highly recommend avoiding any logos, without proper historical
reference.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@aross.me>
To: Linux on small ARM machines <arm-netbook@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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