Hey Michael,

I asked around and doesn’t look like we've previously been asked to edit a mascot after it’s initial creation, so there’s no specific process in place currently. You’re blazing a new trail here! 

We definitely want to gather consensus from project contributors before making changes. The best way to do that would be the openstack-discuss mailing list with [designate] in the subject line of any messages—as documented here. Adding the tag should help other designate contributors notice and respond with their input. 

If you can gather consensus there, you would then email community@openinfra.dev regarding the change. 

So the process would be: propose change via mailing lists => gather consensus => contact the foundation. 

And thanks again for flagging the broken email address and the alignment issue on the page.

Hope this helps! 

-James 


On Nov 17, 2020, at 6:36 AM, Michael Chapman <michapma@redhat.com> wrote:

Hi James

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 4:26 AM James Cole <james@openstack.org> wrote:
Hi Michael, 

I’m James Cole, a graphic designer at the Open Infrastructure Foundation. Hopefully I can address some of your questions.

Regarding the diagram, I’m told it is managed by Designate in their documentation. We can provide suggestions but ultimately it is up to them how they want to create those docs. You may have to get in touch with an active contributor to that project. 


I might not have explained this well, I am currently preparing an updated version of the diagram and am a Designate contributor.
 
Regarding mascot design changes, we’d need broader community input to make edits like that. The mascot designs undergo a community review process with each project when they’re created, so we’re unable to make design changes at this time.

Can you be more specific on how the community can provide that input? Is there a repo I can propose changes against?


If it helps, the mark is vertically aligned with the text, not base aligned. Enlarging the crocodile will probably make it seem disproportionately large compared with other project mascots, which all follow the same design rules.
 
I think what I'm saying is I don't think vertical alignment makes sense with such a strong horizontal line at the base of the logo. Maybe in the context of a group of mascots + text having all of them vertically aligned looks less strange but on its own I think it would look better aligned to the base.

Ultimately if it's not possible to change this I can always use the vertical logo + text instead, but I thought I'd see if it could be improved first.


Thanks for flagging the inactive email address for Anne. Would you mind providing the URL of the page you found that address? We will replace it with community@openinfra.dev as the contact email for mascots. 


On a related note I had a look at https://www.openstack.org/software/project-navigator/openstack-components#openstack-services and the designate entry there doesn't seem to be centered vertically and might need some attention as well.

Thanks for reaching out!


Thanks for the detailed response!

 - Michael
 

James Cole
Graphic Designer
Open Infrastructure Foundation