Discussion December 2000

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Logo considerations
by Peter Gerwinski 04 Jan '01

04 Jan '01

Hi, everybody! I'd like to throw in some thoughts: * I agree that a logo must be minimalistic enough to look well in small sizes. * I also agree that a gnu (the animal) is almost a must. * The "philosophical gnu" (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/) was made in Europe (by my brother:-) and might give us some inspiration. * I like the idea with goddess Europa very much, but I am afraid that "Europa riding a gnu" is too detailed for a logo. Anyway we "must" produce that piece of art. :-) Just my personal opinion, Peter -- http://home.pages.de/~Peter.Gerwinski/ - G-N-U GmbH: http://www.g-n-u.de Maintainer GNU Pascal - http://home.pages.de/~GNU-Pascal/ - gpc-20001218 GnuPG key fingerprint: 9E7C 0FC4 8A62 5536 1730 A932 9834 65DB 2143 9422 keys: http://www.gerwinski.de/pubkeys/ - AntiSpam: http://spam.abuse.net

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FSF UK?
by Jon Masters 31 Dec '00

31 Dec '00

Hi, Let me apologise if this has already been mentioned, I'm still going through archives of mail I've missed recently. I'm interested to know who to make contact with in the UK concerning the FSF presence here and how to become more involved. Thanks, Jon. -- ________oooo_________ jonathan(a)jonmasters.org.uk _________oooo________ | Technical, Easy Penguin. +44 777 61 31337 GPG keys available. | |"And am I, who lived but for my country" [quote: Robert Emmet]| --------oooo-------- http://www.jonmasters.org.uk --------oooo--------

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More sketches
by Anja Drewitz 30 Dec '00

30 Dec '00

Hello, here are some more sketches. I hope they are of some use to you. I don't consider any of them a definite logo suggestion. My idea is that we have to collect a lot of sketches from various people to design a final version. http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~anja/gnu/index.html BTW, I subscribed to the list now so you don't have to Cc: me a reply. Best wishes, Anja -- _ Dipl.-Phys. Anja Drewitz * Universitaet Essen * Germany 0v0 Essener Linux User Group: http://www.elug.de/ / \ gpg key: 0B8C 25A9 5A1B 8AA5 0235 E1E6 AD73 DC74 3504 B31F W^ ^W http://home.pages.de/~anja.drewitz/ad.elg-dsa.public-key.asc

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Re: Free Software Foundation Europe - Press Release
by Georg C. F. Greve 28 Dec '00

28 Dec '00

Hi Frederico! || On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 00:10:44 +0000 || "Frederico S. Muñoz" <fsmunoz(a)sdf.lonestar.org> wrote: fsm> Since this is a press release, is there any inconvinience in fsm> translating it to portuguese (yes, I'm voluntering)? No - not really. We would have done so if we had had the resources, I guess. So if you feel like translating it: go ahead. Of course it might be good if you also spread it among the Portugese news-sources as we hardly know them and the others will be able to work with the present release. So just translate it and add a little note like "translated for your convenience by Frederico S. Muñoz" and distribute it. And thanks for your effort! fsm> Here in Portugal the impact of free-software in recent years has fsm> been the same as in the rest of Europe and I think it would be a fsm> Good Thing if I could actually send it to the press. Yes, I agree. If you get any reaction, we'd definitely not be upset about being kept up-to-date, too. *g* fsm> I proposed a similar translation for the fsfeurope page but got fsm> no reply, I guess you are really focusing on 3 or 4 countries fsm> for now. Sorry about that. It is just that translating the (extremely minimal) page is just really low on our list of priorities. We'd rather get things started and have a REAL page that can be translated then. Regards, Georg -- Georg C. F. Greve <greve(a)fsfeurope.org> Free Software Foundation Europe (http://www.fsfeurope.org) GNU Business Network (http://mailman.gnubiz.org) Brave GNU World (http://brave-gnu-world.org)

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Sent reply to announce, sorry!
by Frederico S. Mu�oz 28 Dec '00

28 Dec '00

Oooops, I replied to the press release and then I noticed that it was on the announce list, sorry. Anyway, here is my question about the press release: ----------------- On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 10:47:15PM +0100, Georg C. F. Greve wrote: > $Date: 2001/04/28 21:59:02 $ > > (German, Italian and French below) Since this is a press release, is there any inconvinience in translating it to portuguese (yes, I'm voluntering)? Here in Portugal the impact of free-software in recent years has been the same as in the rest of Europe and I think it would be a Good Thing if I could actually send it to the press. I proposed a similar translation for the fsfeurope page but got no reply, I guess you are really focusing on 3 or 4 countries for now. Let me know. Best Regards, fsm -- Frederico S. Mu?oz GNU http://www.gnu.org fsmunoz(a)sdf.lonestar.org Debian http://www.debian.org http://sdf.lonestar.org - SDF Public Access Unix Systems

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Help
by Kilian Pérez González 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

Hello and sorry for my Inglish: I want contact with people in Spain for change information about FsF becouse I want made a interesting group in the north of Spain about Gnu but I dont now howto start. Can any help me ?. -- Kilian Pérez González.

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Well scaling Logos
by josX 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

Hai all, Merry Christmas, About the logo: The European history must be rich enough to come up with some objects that fit the bill and scale well, what about a mideaval sword, pointed upwards? (certainly strong enough, and not overused in Europe I think (maybe in USA with "gothic" and all that)), bow+arrow, spear, shield, phenix-bird (GNU is in a way the rebirth of UNIX), crown, ... I feel the idea of a Latin motto and translations is sweet, another reason to use English for the name is that FSFE should be the sister-org of FSF, and that FSF is just a name. That leaves the frase 'Europe' open to possible latinaization, Free-Software-Foundation Europa? bye

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Logo/name considerations
by josX 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

Hi!, We are talking about 'Free Software Foundation Europe', since everything is held under the microscope: why use English? Only a small group of total Europe speak it natively, and is isn't the largest sub-group. What may be more of a problem is the fact that English might be associated with the kapitalistic Western world by large numbers of people from Eastern-Europe. Bye

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GNU and EUROPA
by Josefsson Erik 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

So the girl/goddess Europa is standing beside the Gnu, both facing the camera. Europa is holding her left hand on the animals head or shoulder. They are walking togeter. European stars around or in the back. This would be simple to explain, even selfexplaining, and perhaps also a beautiful logo. A gnu is a gnu, but how is Europa dressed to be recognized? Greek gown? //Erik ps If you want to, she can hold a penguin in her right hand. Or a laptop, or some cds ...

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Re: Women : was: Re:
by josX 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

Hi!! Just joining the brainstorm here: What about a beautifull Women riding the gnu, carying a monitor with the front-glass opened as a box and "seeding" the earth with cd's. BTW, I like the idea of using a women, what else do men like to look at at the end of the day? ;) byebye

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