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Hello Heidi Joy,

At the Glance meeting yesterday, a concerned developer asked about the
status of the Glance logo.  Do you have any news for us?

thanks,
brian


On 11/3/16, 4:38 PM, "Heidi Joy Tretheway" <heidijoy at openstack.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback, Brian! That is always HUGELY helpful. I¹ll
> convey that to the design team and I¹m hoping you also took a moment to
> include your feedback on the tinyurl.com/OSmascot page  (because it makes
> it a lot easier for us to see all feedback side-by-side). Either way, I¹m
> very appreciative of your thoughtful input!
>
> Best,
> Heidi Joy
>
>> On Nov 3, 2016, at 9:55 AM, Brian Rosmaita
>> <brian.rosmaita at rackspace.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Heidi Joy,
>>
>> First, let me say on behalf of the Glance community that we appreciate
>> the
>> hard work you and your team have done in creating all the team
>> mascot/logos.
>>
>> We discussed the draft logo at the weekly Glance meeting today [0], and
>> the general sense of the Glance community is that we'd like to request a
>> re-draft.  I'm not sure we conveyed clearly to you how important the
>> mouth-full-of-nuts aspect was to our choice of a chipmunk [1].  We could
>> tell from the video [2] that you started with the sample picture [3] and
>> worked from there to create something more streamlined, but we were
>> really
>> hoping for something more like the sample picture.
>>
>> The importance of the mouth-full-of-nuts aspect is that Glance curates
>> and
>> stores virtual machine images and other services consume images supplied
>> from Glance.  Additionally, this would more clearly distinguish our logo
>> from that of other projects.
>>
>> Thanks for being so willing to consider feedback!
>>
>> cheers,
>> brian
>>
>> [0] 
>>
>> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/glance/2016/glance.2016-11-03-14.
>> 00
>> .log.html (beginning 14:14:07)
>> [1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/glance-project-mascot (lines 38-41)
>> [2] https://youtu.be/JmMTCWyY8Y4?t=41
>> [3] https://www.fortwhyte.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/chip2.jpg
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/21/16, 12:43 PM, "Brian Rosmaita" <brian.rosmaita at RACKSPACE.COM>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Glancers,
>>>
>>> Heidi Joy Tretheway and Todd Morey from the foundation have sent us the
>>> attached sneak preview of the Glance mascot/logo.  (As you may recall,
>>> we
>>> voted for a chipmunk [0].)
>>>
>>> They've set up a handy form [1] so that you can provide individual
>>> feedback.  The project logos will be finalized in time for the February
>>> PTG, so please provide any feedback before Friday, November 11.
>>>
>>> Before providing feedback, you might want to take a look at a short
>>> (50-second) video [2] to see how the logos developed and how they
>>> present
>>> a consistent interface across OpenStack projects.
>>>
>>> Since we're looking at light turnout for the Barcelona summit, I've put
>>> discussion of the logo on the agenda for the November 3 edition of the
>>> Glance weekly meeting [3].
>>>
>>> Keep in mind that the logo is still a draft, so please don't tweet it
>>> or
>>> use it in any promotional materials.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> brian
>>>
>>> [0] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/glance-project-mascot
>>> [1] http://tinyurl.com/OSmascot
>>> [2] https://youtu.be/JmMTCWyY8Y4
>>> [3] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/glance-team-meeting-agenda
>>>
>>
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