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[Justin Clark-Casey]

On 23/08/10 16:54, diva at metaverseink.com wrote:
> For those who wish to contribute more of these images, here are some
> guidelines:
>
> - Unless your intent is to provide raw material for others to modify
> (like the SVG image, for example) do not make the ready-to-use logos
> big. The "Powered by OpenSimulator" logos should be DISCRETE. The one I
> made is 114x27, that should give an idea for what *I* mean by discrete.
> But don't take it from me. Have a look at "Powered by Apache" logos out
> there; that should give you an idea of what common sense suggests for
> these kinds of logos.
>
> - You need to include a license for the image(s) you upload and link
> from that page. Images without licenses will b removed from that page.

Hi Diva.  Could we require that this license be Creative Commons Zero?

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

The other creative commons licenses require attribution to the original author.  I don't think that this is appropriate 
for community-contributed opensim logos.  Of course, there's nothing to stop people attributing if they want to do that, 
just that they're not forced to do it by the license terms.

>
> Thanks.
> Crista
>
> 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> 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=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
>>>>>
>>>>> %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 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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