As a suggestion, the <a href="http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Image:PoweredByOpenSimulator.png" class="image" title="Image:PoweredByOpenSimulator.png"><img alt="Image:PoweredByOpenSimulator.png" src="http://opensimulator.org/images/0/09/PoweredByOpenSimulator.png" height="27" width="114" border="0"></a> 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".<br>
<br>Another thought is the possibility of making one or more of these images an official registered trademark of the project. <br><br>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".<br>
<br>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.<br><br>Karen<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:33 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diva@metaverseink.com">diva@metaverseink.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
I created a page for OpenSimulator graphics:<br>
<a href="http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OpenSim_Graphics" target="_blank">http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OpenSim_Graphics</a><br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
Crista<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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Jeroen van Veen wrote:<br>
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Do you have the same icon with an opaque background as well?<br>
<br>
Jeroen<br>
<br>
On Saturday 21 August 2010 17:15:39 Rich White wrote:<br>
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Here is a chicklet icon perhaps to get the ball rolling:<br>
<a href="http://twitpic.com/2gue0y" target="_blank">http://twitpic.com/2gue0y</a><br>
<br>
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On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:47 AM, <<a href="mailto:diva@metaverseink.com" target="_blank">diva@metaverseink.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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P.S. For people who want to give credit to the project, the "correct" way<br>
of expressing it is<br>
"Powered by OpenSim".<br>
At some point it would be nice to have a logo with those words in it.<br>
Examples:<br>
<a href="http://www.google.com/images?q=powered+by+apache&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/images?q=powered+by+apache&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla</a><br>
:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=5eVvTPSNMYK<br>
2sAPu2cCXAg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCIQsAQwAA&<br>
biw=1306&bih=933<br>
<a href="http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla</a><br>
%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&biw=1306&bih=933&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=powered+by+CentO<br>
S&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=<br>
<br>
<a href="mailto:diva@metaverseink.com" target="_blank">diva@metaverseink.com</a> wrote:<br>
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-1 on this.<br>
I'm generally reluctant in using the term "OpenSim" for anything other<br>
than the name of this project. It's bad enough that bloggers and the<br>
public keep confusing the project with its uses, let's not give any<br>
more suggestions in that direction. OpenSim is the infrastructure<br>
project, not its uses. The users of OpenSim are the world operators,<br>
not the people who login to these worlds.<br>
<br>
In other words, when people login to an OpenSim-based world they are not<br>
"logging in to OpenSim"; they are logging in to a world that someone<br>
runs based on OpenSim. This may seem like an insignificant distinction,<br>
but it's not, it's huge.<br>
<br>
So let's leave it with the generic message that is has now. The config<br>
var is there for people to customize it.<br>
<br>
Ai Austin wrote:<br>
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In a recent commit by Justin he suggested that if a change was made to<br>
the default viewer welcome message, it would be useful to get the<br>
thoughts of others first. I do appreciate that most folks will alter<br>
the string anyway, but it is useful out of the box to have useful<br>
messages. And I had suggested a change to help differentiate things a<br>
bit in an immediately visible form at the user end, and to brand the<br>
system in the default. Can I suggest this change and see what others<br>
think?<br>
<br>
Opensim.ini.example "Welcome to OpenSim"<br>
Robust.ini.example "Welcome to OpenSim Grid"<br>
Robust.HG.ini.example "Welcome to OpenSim Hypergrid"<br>
<br>
This would have the nice effect of differentiating which [Architecture]<br>
is being used immediately.<br>
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