Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 20:47 +0100, Thilo Pfennig wrote:
> Murray Cumming schrieb:
> > To make something happen, I guess you need to suggest a particular
> > design. Then the GNOME board could approve it - you need to ask the
> > board for a simple yes/no decision or it won't happen.
> >   
> That would be a very bad idea. Essentially a logo should be selected
> with care next time. Just something different could easily be approved
> by the board  but then could result in the next issue one day later. A
> logo can be everything and it does not take much time to think of
> 'anything'. What would  be needed is a well thought through logo idea
> with also some good people working on it. I think 'marketing by
> accident' is like one starts programming randomly without any standards
> or idea what one wants to accomplish. I would wish that some things
> would change at GNOME.

This assumes that the GNOME artists and the GNOME board are idiots. Note
that I won't be discussing whether they are, or whether I am.

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Murray Cumming
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