[Openfontlibrary] logo for Graphite

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Fri Jul 20 02:59:27 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 08:06 +1000, ryan lerch wrote:
> yeah, i imagine we can fit it in... the competition plan is not set in
> concrete at the moment, however, IMO we should have a normal
> competition before (or maybe at the same time) as another logo
> competiton (we just finished having the xiph.org spread open media
> comp...)
> 
> the only thing with using OCAL for your logo competition, is that your
> logo will have to be PD. as everything that is uploaded to OCAL has to
> be... im not sure of the rammifications of an org having a PD logo...
> 
> just something to think about i spose...

I think we should make some special case where submissions are in the PD, but the final selection is then solely owned by the one/org/company commissiong the competition. 

We just need to spell out some text from this and have a way to toggle a
full copyright on items. 

What do you think?

Jon


> cheers,
> 
> ryanlerch
> On 7/19/07, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 20:49 +0100, Daniel Glassey wrote:
> > > On 03/05/07, Daniel Glassey <dglassey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi folks,
> > > > Congrats on a great looking logo :)
> > > >
> > > > The graphite project http://graphite.sil.org could do with a nice
> > > > logo. Since graphite is an open font technology would you guys be able
> > > > and like to host a competition to create a logo for Graphite?
> > >
> > > Hello again,
> > > My timing was pretty bad there since the site problems happened a
> > > couple of days later :S . I spoke to Jon earlier today and it sounded
> > > a good idea to him so what can we do to get this started?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Daniel
> >
> > I think we should do this through Open Clip Art Library. I think it
> > makes a lot more sense to get artists over there to do and keep OFLB ont
> > the open font tip, right?
> >
> > how does this sound to all? Ryan, where does this fit into OCAL's
> > competition plan?
> >
> > Jon
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