On 2/9/2012 11:17 AM, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:51:31 -0500 > Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 09:49 -0500, Pam Chestek wrote: >>> The Wayback Machine show the first use of the logo online in April, >>> 2006. Does anyone have any information on the exact date it was >>> published? Second, does anyone know for sure where our servers >>> were in April, 2006 (or whatever date the logo was first >>> published)? I have information that the main Fedora server was at >>> Duke, but was moved to Phoenix, and the person didn't know exactly >>> when the servers were moved. >> It was definitely published earlier than that on redhat's >> people.redhat.com server (see >> http://web.archive.org/web/20090131091157/http://people.redhat.com/dfong/fc5graphics/ >> dated Dec 6, 2005) and on capstrat.com's servers which archive has >> listed as early as 25 Nov 2005: >> http://web.archive.org/web/20051125211849/http://capstrat.com/development/fedora/index.php? >> >> However our mailing list archives indicate it was available as early >> as Sept 16, 2005: >> http://osdir.com/ml/linux.redhat.fedora.marketing/2005-09/msg00124.html >> > A little bit from my own personal timeline. > > In August of 2005 I was deciding to transition to a new position at > duke. When I did that it meant fedora.linux.duke.edu (which was > fedoraproject.org for a while) was no longer going to be directly > controllable by someone in the project so we started moving things to > phx. I think Sopwith was settting things up then. It looks the server > transition happened sometime around oct or nov which would be > consistent b/c I got back to work around the end of october. I was on > vacation for a while between then. > > In Dec of 2005 Greg Dekoenigsberg asked me to setup a > logo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for requests to use the logo. > > He said: > > " I'm still waiting for lawyer time, and it'll be the new year before > that happens, realistically -- so here's the usage guidelines: please > send usage requests to "logo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx". Seth, could you set > that alias up and point it to me? Thanks. Once you've done that, I'll > update the wiki appropriately. > " > > So - the timing all seems to say the logo was introduced around the end > of 2005 and was probably in place in NC and in AZ around that time. > > Definitely by spring of 2006 it had moved to AZ. > > Theoretically our lawyers might have the email from Greg from around > then. > > -sv > _______________________________________________ > advisory-board mailing list > advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board Great, thanks, that's very helpful. Pam _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
