Hi
I don't think more iterations would necessarily have helped. But a
broader call to submit logos would have been good. If people on fedora
forums, etc had been asked if they would like to provide logo samples
before decisions had been made that would have allowed some of these
"popular alternatives" to surface at a point in time when it would have
been useful.
Apart from this open mailing list with public archives, it was mentioned
in Fedora News atleast twice. Weekly issues are announced both in the
fedora announcement list and to the frontpage newssection in the Fedora
forum among various places such as lwn.net and distrowatch.com. Such
announcements to the forum were originally done by Thomas Chnug. Luya
Tshimbalanga posts these to the forum and I move it to the news section
everytime these days.
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_4
http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_11
Is the logo for the product to represent itself or for the community to
unite under? I think, in a community project, the logo is something the
community needs to want to associate themselves with. Do I belong to
the "speech-bubble-infinity-stylized-f-group", the "red-swirl-group", or
the "silver-pacman-group". So it would been better for the community
to have had a more active role in this particular decision.
Its for the project to represent itself. As a community project,
interested people can always participate in it. Those who had enough
interest in the marketing aspects of Fedora subscribed themselves and
took part in the discussions and proposed various logos.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/LogoIdeas
The discussion has been going on for months in a open and public list. I
am not sure what exactly could have been done to publicize such efforts
better. Suggestions?
regards
Rahul
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