Re: using GNOME foot-logo for business card

[Eric Renaud <Eric Renaud Sun COM>]

The OpenOffice.org is doing something along these lines (business cards 
for community
members/volunteers).

http://marketing.openoffice.org/art/galleries/marketing/businesscards/

Eric


Owen Taylor wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:51 -0800, Eddy Mulyono wrote:
>  
>
> > Dear GNOME foundation,
> >
> > I am a big fan of GNOME and the idea of reverting computers to be slaves
> > of men (and not the other way around).
> >
> > I noticed that you're in charge of the most of the marketing pages in
> > live.gnome.org.
> >
> > I want to include the gnome foot logo in my business cards.
> >
> > Is this OK? Is there anything I should pay attention to?
> >    
>
> The subject has never come up before. You certainly can't do it with
> permission from the GNOME Foundation.
>
> My opinion is that we shouldn't allow this for a *business* card
> for a commercial business. For, comparison, the guidelines for the
> foundation member email address forbid using it on 
> "Mail sent for commercial purposes."
>
> (http://developer.gnome.org/doc/policies/accounts/mail.html)
>
> I think putting a GNOME logo on a business card might look too
> much like an official endorsement by the GNOME project of your
> business.
>
> Something we might want to consider is a "hacker card" - create
> a standard template that any GNOME foundation member could use to
> create a business card for themselves, with the gnome logo and their
> gnome.org email address. 
>
> (I've seen this from some of the Japanese projects, I think)
>
> What do people think?
> 					Owen
>
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