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Mon Aug 23 16:11:59 UTC 2010

Just changed them to CC zero 1.0 (It's ok for me and I think will work
better for anyone), about the size is there a logo use guide or it can be
changed as needed eg http://www.uwsa.edu/cert/publicat/style/.

2010/8/23 Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com>

> 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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