Yes, this is precisely what I have in mind. I will use my own materials as a start, then we can sub in official ones later (if they indeed exist). Additionally, we can make a repository of the construction files used so (when/if) we decide to rebrand/recolour later, it will be a simple matter to update the brand guidelines. Thanks for the link, Andrew. On 23 Jun 2015 3:05 am, "Andrew Pullins" <android2772@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Over in the LibreOffice project the design and marketing team made > the LibreOffice Branding Guidelines [1]. It goes over everything from what > the official spelling of the name, acceptable abbreviations, how the logo > is to look with exact measurements, what colors are to be used with it, and > the official fonts. I think this would be a great starting point for > creating a design document. > > When I was creating my Flat GIMP Icon Theme I wanted to get the orange to > be as close to what I call GIMP orange as I could. The first go around I > just color picked the sites header, but in the second I actually looked > through the CSS and got the hex color code. I think that it would be very > beneficial to release a document like this so that people know how to best > advertise GIMP while keeping to its branding. Some People still call it > The GIMP out of habit. > > [1] > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding > > -- > Jesus is my Lord and Savior. Praise be unto God for giving us a way to > live with him. > > <https://www.facebook.com/android272> > <https://plus.google.com/u/0/113439282950133616549/posts> > <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-pullins/6a/2b3/366> > <https://twitter.com/android272> <http://android272.deviantart.com/> > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 6:23 PM, C R <cajhne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> All the more reason to offer a press kit of materials that are clearly >> okay >> for people and companies to use to promote GIMP. It's ambiguous otherwise >> because while the GIMP software is copyleft, the branding and materials >> may >> not be, and it's a pain for companies to pick out what's okay to use, and >> for what purpose. We need to make that clear. I'll submit a patch for a >> press kit section of the website in the coming week and we can gather >> opinions from the GIMP team about what to include and exclude. This is >> free >> and important advertising for the project. We should make it easy to share >> and promote GIMP as a tool for everyone to enjoy for business and personal >> use. >> On 22 Jun 2015 1:42 pm, "Bill Skaggs" <weskaggs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > Actually there is nobody who has the right to give special permission. >> The >> > GIMP software and manual are both released under very specific copyright >> > conditions. The GIMP web site is copyrighted by "The GIMP Team". The >> > members of the team are listed at http://www.gimp.org/team.html, but >> there >> > is no statement that any particular person has the right to release the >> > material under altered conditions. In short, the licenses and copyright >> > law give you certain rights, and nobody in the GIMP project has the >> power >> > to alter those rights. >> > >> > Bill >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Apollo D. Sharpe, Sr. < >> > adsharpesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > > On 6/21/2015 7:57 PM, Gez wrote: >> > > >> > >> I don't think that requires permission. >> > >> Using application screenshots is a fair use (as long as they don't >> > >> depict anything objectionable or illegal, I think). Linking back to >> the >> > >> official site gimp.org is a good thing too, you're sending your >> users >> > >> to the place where the actual project lives and where its official >> docs >> > >> can be found. >> > >> >> > >> As C R just said, I'm also curious about the details of your project. >> > >> Just out of curiosity :-) >> > >> >> > > I didn't think that it'd be a problem, however, companies can never be >> > too >> > > careful. We are primarily a high performance computer hardware >> company. >> > > We're trying to push PC-BSD, in an effort to show that the BSDs aren't >> > > second or third class systems & can perform as well as any other >> > > system...or better! At this point, the Linux users have their venues >> for >> > > consumer hardware. The major players have experiemented with it & then >> > > there're companies like System 76 out there. Now, PC-BSD has a systems >> > ally >> > > for consumer. Powerful enough for a system's admin, but comfortable >> > enough >> > > for your parents! >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Regards, >> > > >> > > Apollo D. 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