Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-conference (124 mails)

[Michal Hrusecky <michal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jos Poortvliet - 17:13 15.05.12 wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Michal Hrusecky <michal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> > wrote:
> > > Jos Poortvliet - 10:47 15.05.12 wrote:
> > > > Heya all,
> > > >
> > > > As I said before I've been talking to Andres 'anditosan' Silva about
> > > > an openSUSE Conference logo. He pulled in Michael Fox and together
> > > > this is what they came up with after a number of itterations:
> > > >
> > > > http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/anditosan/?action=view&current=oSC_Logo2_anditosan_tiled.png
> > > >
> > > > The idea behind it is:
> > > > - it's taken from Andy Warhol's famous Marilyn Monroe painting - new,
> > > > fresh, groundbreaking art. If you steal, steal from the best etc ;-)
> > > > Google it if you don't know it...
> > > >  - we can use this incarnation as our oSC artwork. But imagine
> > > > replacing three of the four geeko's with a SUSE Labs logo, a Gentoo
> > > > logo and a LinuxDays logo. Of course in that style. Then we have
> > > > 4-in-1, showing the unity yet unique-ness of our 4 events-in-one.
> > > >
> > > > What do you think?
> > >
> > > Apart from me not liking Warhol, I have some other comment as well. I
> > > think it is too complicated. Might look good and people might like it,
> > > but to me it looks like it might be difficult to recognize in smaller
> > > format and there is just too much details. For logo I would prefer
> > > something much simpler with more contrast. Summit logo is great.  Little
> > > bit artistic font, three palm trees - simple, easily recognizable on the
> > > first sight even in dimmed/colored light. This one is a colorful square,
> > > than chameleon, than something on bottom, than hey, it's openSUSE
> > > Conference in Prague!
> >
> > We can easily make a single-geeko version, like these (made earlier by
> > Anditosan and MFox:
> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/oSC_Logo_anditosan.png
> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/oSC_logo_final_03.png
> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/oSC_Logo2_anditosan.png
> >
> > We can settle on a final variation later. So, we'll have posters, both
> > for openSUSE alone (like the one in the first post in this thread) and
> > the tiled one with four logo's AND we'll have a logo without tiling.
>
> The thing we have to decide upon is the CONCEPT - details and various
> versions we can make later, for t-shirts, posters, website etcetera.
> This is actually part of the concept itself - Warhol made many
> variations on the original one and there's lots more on the web. So
> that's all cool. Just creates work for Andy and Michael and whoever
> helps them out :D
>
> It seems we have consensus here that this is awesome, that's good. But
> we need the others on board: Gentoo (probably not a big issue), SUSE
> Labs (same) and LinuxDays (no idea?!?).

Contacting them right now.

> They each need a (variation on their) logo which fits the style so it
> can be one of the 4 tiles in the 'complete conference poster'. Andy
> and Michael will probably have to come up with the one for SUSE Labs
> (based on the rough labs logo's I could find on the web) and possible
> also the Gentoo one. We have to ask the LD people if they have a logo
> - and if they're OK butchering it into the style we're using with
> these tiles. And if they like the idea etc :D

They have a logo already - this one:
https://cloud.hrusecky.net/public.php?service=files&token=28af08614b4de66ac9c0d0fffd6ede72b66c490d&file=/linux-days.png

> So that's what Michal will have to do. I think it's best that we first
> try and make one with the logo's of Gentoo and LABS in there, so it
> looks closer to the final one - have a placeholder for LinuxDays, like
> a big ? in the right style, then ask them if they can help us fill in
> that question mark :D
>
> I hope Andy and Michael can find time for the above - come up with
> Warhol-ified Gentoo and SUSE Labs logo's and a question mark, create a
> 2x2 version and give it to Michal so he can ask the LD people.
>
> All on board?

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        Michal Hrusecky <Michal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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