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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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