Besides trademark, color, shape... I have a question?
Does we have some identity as openSUSE, something that graphically identify
our geeko, brand, logo, distro, project?
If yes i think is pretty good to keep and make our identity as much strong
as possible, if not I believe we must create one because identify is one of
the most important things about any project, product, branding.. so is
pretty important to create a contest for identity creation in case we don
already have it?
Or identity is not important and relevant?
I not in favor or against any color or font typo, my only concern is about
identity. if we already have great, as I said before I believe this is an
important step to make the brandng, project... even more strong as the time
has passing. If not, we don have one, I believe is great to create one.
As a good example we have MTV identity where they are always changing
colors, formats, font types, materials, textures, but they never lose
identity.
2013/11/15 Kenneth Wimer
On 11/14/13 2:41 AM, Rajko wrote:
On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:06:54 -0200 Carlos Ribeiro
wrote: Green is our identity. Im my opinion is pretty much important to keep identity in all related openSUSE things.
I agree that some variations must happen also include some different colors, but never forgetting about our identity.
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Trademark_guidelines http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Artwork_brand
It would be nice if someone can decipher this for us mortals:
http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=4279997&caseType=US_REGISTRATION_NO&searchType=statusSearch
As I read it, it is: * Novell property, * color is no more important * it is valid since Jan. 22, 2013.
While specific green was mandatory before, now it is just a historic category, and we can actually claim any color, or combination of them up to including textures we find nice looking, just as real chameleons :)
But, that is valid only if I got right legal language and meaning of the fields in registration, so first we need someone that can tell us how to interpret registration.
Yes, color is not important. Any color may be used. The trademark refers only to the text/graphic shape of the logo.
-- Ken
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