[openstack-dev] Project mascots update

Hayes, Graham graham.hayes at hpe.com
Fri Aug 5 15:25:13 UTC 2016


On 05/08/2016 16:04, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 17:09 +1000, Mike Carden wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Antoni Segura Puimedon <
>> toni+openstackml at midokura.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It would be really awesome if, in true OSt and OSS spirit this work
>>> happened in an OpenStack repository with an open, text based format
>>> like SVG. This way people could contribute and review.
>>>
>>>
>> I am strongly in favour of images being stored in open formats. Right
>> now the most widely supported open formats are PNG and SVG. Let's
>> make sure that as often as possible, we all store non-photographic
>> images in formats like these.
>
> As someone who acts as web monkey for various conference websites,
> could I just say please use SVG.  Scalable formats are so much easier
> for website designers to work with and pngs have a habit of looking
> ugly when you're forced to scale them (which inevitably happens when
> you have a bunch and you're trying to get them to look uniform).
>
> James
>

Yeah - Can I echo that. When working on using them for other uses
(t-shirts / USB Keys / presentations / printed docs) having a vector
format makes it *much* easier.

On that note - I may have missed it, but what licence are these logos
being released under? Is there any restrictions on their usage like
there is on the main OpenStack logo?

- Graham

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