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diva at metaverseink.com
diva at metaverseink.com
Mon Aug 23 15:15:15 UTC 2010
Yes, that logo will be on the the next release of Wifi.
Karen Palen wrote:
> As a suggestion, the Image:PoweredByOpenSimulator.png
> <http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Image:PoweredByOpenSimulator.png> image
> might be added to the wifi welcome and splash screens in a way that
> shows an example of the intended and correct use. This would not only
> help educate users, but doing so establishes an "informal trademark".
>
> Another thought is the possibility of making one or more of these images
> an official registered trademark of the project.
>
> Registering a trademark is not hard to do, but registration would
> eliminate some potential abuses as "cybersqautting". For example this
> would be where someone decides to use a close variant of the name/logo
> in a malicious or confusing way such as registering the domain name
> "OpenSimulator.com" (rather than .org) or even "ImprovedOpenSimulator.com".
>
> The standard for a trademark is "possibility of confusion", the standard
> for copyright (including BSD) is a "literal copy" or "derived work"
> which is much narrower.
>
> Karen
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:33 AM, <diva at metaverseink.com
> <mailto:diva at metaverseink.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I created a page for OpenSimulator graphics:
> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OpenSim_Graphics
>
> If you create variations of this art, and wish to make it publicly
> available for others to use, please add it there in a similar manner
> to the ones already there.
>
> Thanks.
> Crista
>
>
>
> Jeroen van Veen wrote:
>
> Do you have the same icon with an opaque background as well?
>
> Jeroen
>
> On Saturday 21 August 2010 17:15:39 Rich White wrote:
>
> Here is a chicklet icon perhaps to get the ball rolling:
> http://twitpic.com/2gue0y
>
>
> ====
>
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:47 AM, <diva at metaverseink.com
> <mailto: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
> <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=5eVvTPSNMYK
> 2sAPu2cCXAg&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
> <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+CentO
> S&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
>
> diva at metaverseink.com <mailto: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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