Re: Logo discussion

On 5/17/07, Guillaume Paumier <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
> On 5/17/07, Andrew Whitworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >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",
> >
> > Guillom, it appears you have all the answers (or all the answers that are
> > available), so let me ask you this directly: If the marketing committee is
> > working on this proposal for presentation to the board, should any logo
> > discussions just wait until that happens? I mean, I dont want to set up a
> > logo vote/discussion now if the board is just going to go in a different
> > direction from us. In short, should we wait for the marketing committee to
> > present?
>
>
> I certainly don't have all the answers :-) But when I have seen you raising
> the logo issue on this list, I have thought it would be good to let you know
> about the ongoing works. I have talked about the works from the marketing
> committee. Robert has mentioned Erik's proposal; they are not contrary, but
> they both show there are global ongoing discussions whose conclusions will
> impact the visual identity of all projects, including Wikibooks. In my
> humble opinion, both our work and Erik's proposal should encourage you to
> wait a little :-)
>
> I want to get the ball rolling on a new logo discussion ASAP, but i'm not
> > going to waste my time with it if the board changes the rules in mid vote.
>
>
> I fully agree, and this is precisely why I have taken part in this thread:
> to prevent Wikibookians from rushing into discussions about logos if the
> rules change soon.
>

Thanks Guillaume, and fair points in this thread.

I look forward to more work on this issue - it's an interesting one,
and I fully trust both the goodwill and the expertise of the current
marketing committee members. I'd like for this to be a more
Wikimedia-wide process too - as Robert says and as you acknowledge,
not many people have heard of (or remember hearing of) the marketing
committee. :-) Added to this of course is that this is a matter close
to many people's hearts - the identity and image of their pet
projects. :-)

Cormac