[OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

[Martijn van Exel]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 1:56 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I noticed that there is a new OSM logo in the wiki. I find it strange
> that important things like changing the well established logo of the
> project are beeing changed without any discussion or notice on any of
> the lists, or did I miss something? Or was the site hacked?
>
>
I'd have to concur. Firstly, a new logo is not something you roll out on its
own, it's part of a new 'corporate identity' and it's not something you just
implement by accepting a pull request. Secondly, there's tons of derived
products that are sitting there looking dated all of a sudden; not only
national or sub-project web sites, also printed materials. It seems very
amateurish to have different logo versions sitting around in different parts
of the project. All in all I believe some advance notice would have been a
good idea. Mind you, I'm not even talking about a community voting process -
I'm not in favor of that in this case at all.

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Martijn van Exel
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