Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 June 15

[David Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi,

Danilo Šegan wrote:
> How about slightly modified favicon (like the one we use on
> http://prevod.org/, Serbian Gnome translation web page)?  And about a
> logo surrounded by a white stripe to fit the overall design (on the
> same page)? (if you need reasoning behind the first, it's quite
> simple: favicons show up in bookmarks, and we all scan long lists of
> bookmarks by icons first—you don't want someone to mistake Serbian
> Gnome translation page with Gnome page, do you? :)
>
> Such examples would be so numerous that a case-by-case approval would
> mean only one thing: don't use the logo.

I disagree. You've pointed out 2 logos. That's typically a one-day 
approval. I think this is better than running the risk of the GNOME logo 
being used in something that isn't good for GNOME.

> IMHO, bureacracy is never working toward community development, though
> we all admit it is sometimes necessary for stopping misuses.  And we
> only want to stop misuses, AFAIK.  Right?

Misuses include well-intentioned uses of the logo that don't show us in 
a good light. What I'm describing is an infinitely more flexible policy 
than, say, Mozilla's trademark guidelines. And this isn't bureaucracy 
gone mad unless we do it wrong. Common sense rules.

Cheers,
Dave.

PS. Another reason to have logo modifications go through the board is 
that we'd like to hear about all the user groups out there.

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Dave Neary
bolsh gimp org
Lyon, France