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On Jul 11, 2016, at 8:51 AM, Steve Martinelli <s.martinelli at gmail.com<mailto:s.martinelli at gmail.com>> wrote:

The keystone project was one of the first to have a logo and I'm more than happy to give it up for the sake of a consistent message across all OpenStack projects.

I think it's fine if ironic and tripleo want to stick with their current animals (luckily they are using logos that meet the new criteria proposed by the foundation), but I don't think it's unreasonable if the foundation proposes a re-design of existing logos that is more consistent with the rest of the new ones.

The logos we use today are too different from each other, i don't think anyone would disagree with that. If each project goes off and does their own thing it comes off as inconsistent.


Just a little strange for a community-driven open source project to be replacing community-created mascots with top-down designs. I'm not terribly opposed to it, but would have definitely preferred if this had come across as a request instead of a mandate. I think it's cool and unique that the Ironic mascot was designed/drawn by one of our more prolific contributors (Lucas), and we'll lose some of that shine with a less-unique logo.

I think we could all be easily bribed if the foundation provided copious amounts of stickers to contributors with the new mascot designs on them. :P

Thanks,
Jay

stevemar

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Steven Hardy <shardy at redhat.com<mailto:shardy at redhat.com>> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 08:00:29AM -0700, Heidi Joy Tretheway wrote:
>    The Foundation would like to help promote OpenStack projects in the big
>    tent with branding and marketing services. The idea is to create a family
>    of logos for OpenStack projects that are unique, yet immediately
>    identifiable as part of OpenStack. Weâ**ll be using these logos to promote
>    your project on the OpenStack website, at the Summit and in marketing
>    materials.
>    Weâ**re asking project teams to choose a mascot to represent as their
>    logo. Your team can select your own mascot, and then weâ**ll have an
>    illustrator create the logo for you (and we also plan to print some
>    special collateral for your team in Barcelona).
>    If your team already has a logo based on a mascot from nature, youâ**ll
>    have first priority to keep that mascot, and the illustrator will restyle
>    it to be consistent with the other projects. If you have a logo that
>    doesnâ**t have a mascot from nature, we encourage your team to choose a
>    mascot.
>    Hereâ**s an FAQ and examples of what the logos can look like:
>    http://www.openstack.org/project-mascots
>    Weâ**ve also recorded a quick video with an overview of the project:
>    https://youtu.be/LOdsuNr2T-o
>    You can get in touch with your PTL to participate in the logo choice
>    discussion. If you have more questions, Iâ**m happy to help. :-)

TripleO has had some discussion already around a project mascot, and we've
settled on the owl logo displayed on tripleo.org<http://tripleo.org/> and our launchpad org:

http://tripleo.org/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/tripleo/

(There is also a hi-res version or SVG around, I just can't find it atm)

This was discussed in the community and accepted here:

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-March/089043.html

Which was in turn based on a previous design discussed here:

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-September/075649.html

So, I think it's likely (unless anyone objects) we'll stick with that
current owl theme for our official mascot.

Overall I like the idea of encouraging official mascots/logos for projects,
quite a few have done so informally and I think it's a fun way to reinforce
project/team identity within the OpenStack community.

Thanks!

Steve Hardy

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