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[Rich White]

Here is a chicklet icon perhaps to get the ball rolling:
http://twitpic.com/2gue0y


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On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:47 AM,  <diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:
> P.S. For people who want to give credit to the project, the "correct" way of
> expressing it is
> "Powered by OpenSim".
> At some point it would be nice to have a logo with those words in it.
> Examples:
> http://www.google.com/images?q=powered+by+apache&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=5eVvTPSNMYK2sAPu2cCXAg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCIQsAQwAA&biw=1306&bih=933
> http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&biw=1306&bih=933&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=powered+by+CentOS&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
>
>
> diva at metaverseink.com wrote:
>>
>> -1 on this.
>> I'm generally reluctant in using the term "OpenSim" for anything other
>> than the name of this project. It's bad enough that bloggers and the public
>> keep confusing the project with its uses, let's not give any more
>> suggestions in that direction. OpenSim is the infrastructure project, not
>> its uses. The users of OpenSim are the world operators, not the people who
>> login to these worlds.
>>
>> In other words, when people login to an OpenSim-based world they are not
>> "logging in to OpenSim"; they are logging in to a world that someone runs
>> based on OpenSim. This may seem like an insignificant distinction, but it's
>> not, it's huge.
>>
>> So let's leave it with the generic message that is has now. The config var
>> is there for people to customize it.
>>
>> Ai Austin wrote:
>>>
>>> In a recent commit by Justin he suggested that if a change was made to
>>> the default viewer welcome message, it would be useful to get the thoughts
>>> of others first. I do appreciate that most folks will alter the string
>>> anyway, but it is useful out of the box to have useful messages. And I had
>>> suggested a change to help differentiate things a bit in an immediately
>>> visible form at the user end, and to brand the system in the default.  Can I
>>> suggest this change and see what others think?
>>>
>>> Opensim.ini.example         "Welcome to OpenSim"
>>> Robust.ini.example            "Welcome to OpenSim Grid"
>>> Robust.HG.ini.example       "Welcome to OpenSim Hypergrid"
>>>
>>> This would have the nice effect of differentiating which [Architecture]
>>> is being used immediately.
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