Re: Logo discussion

On 5/17/07, Robert Horning <[email protected]> wrote:
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> What is this "marketing committee"? I have never heard about this group
> at all.


Please read my previous email, you will find this link :
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-October/024087.html

This hard-core attitude that not only are related color schemes supposed
> to be different but simply can't use the main WMF logo colors at all in
> any way, nor even suggest the WMF in any other way seems to fly in a
> diametrically opposite direction from any kind of common marketing or
> unifying philosophy.


The fact Wikimedia colors must be avoided has been the policy for some time
and afaik it is still the policy. Erik's proposal is only a proposal from a
user of the community for the moment. It is not an official statement of the
board ; I don't even know if this has been discussed within the board. The
marketing committee has been working on a series of changes and will present
soon to the board a document summing up this work. The name of this document
is "Strengthening and unifying the visual identity of Wikimedia projects",
so you see we share a will of unification with Erik. We just don't seem to
propose the same solutions. All that requires discussion. If the board
decides the best way to unification is to change all logos to wikimedia
colors, the marketing committee will comply. But for now, we are working on
the actual policy and I provide advice based on this policy.

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