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Saturday, November 04 2006

gnome-NL business cards

In response to Wouter about the business cards. Our current design isn't following gnome guidelines, the old gnome logo we use has been banned. The gnome logo guidelines are now quite specific about the use.

I actually pretty much knew it was going to happen at the time our cards where getting printed, but because it had been such a wreck getting the cards (took around 3 months i recall to get a design everyone could agree on), at the time i couldn't have cared any less.

Also please note that the logo at that time wasn't officially banned yet, it was just discouraged to use. I think i might have mentioned it a few times, but i'm unsure when en to whom, the basic idea was to get new cards printed this summer, but since the whole 'going to conferences to promote gnome and stuff' idea kinda took a dip last year, and talks with hurryjane about getting new cards printed went 'so so' i decided to just do nothing about it for a while. I'm not saying we shouldn't get new cards, but without us actually using them, it's kinda pointless at this time.

And thirdly, i kinda like the gnome2 logo, and while gnome has a brand to protect, we aren't gnome we are gnome-nl. Which isn't to say there isn't a strong relation between the two, but where not the same thing. IMHO where more like official platinum gnome partners. (to speak in commercial software terms) Which in my delusion means we don't really have to change the logo. Of course we should and we will, but there is no direct reason to do it right now.