Re: GNOME mobile on website

[Dave Neary <bolsh gnome org>]

Hi,

Let me reassure you, someone is working on a logo (picked up the task on
IRC today) - he may even be on this list (take a bow, vinci).

It is GNOME Mobile. Must be GNOME Mobile everywhere, except in the first
press release (historical data now) which use GNOME Mobile & Embedded
initiative.

Cheers,
Dave.

Thilo Pfennig wrote:
> I like to add that there seems to be no GMAE logo, really. The one big
> image there is not really usable. Maybe sone of the designers likes to
> work on some smart logo which uses the GNOME foot
> (http://live.gnome.org/BrandGuidelines ). Just like to mention that a
> foot and mobility would make a good combination.
> 
> There is also still time to think about a better name (problem: how do
> you spell "gmae"? In german this sounds like a sheep). I just invented
> the word "GNOMOBILITY", which could also be used with the meaning of
> "mobility of GNOME" or "GNOME goes mobile". If you want to use it, be
> free to do so.
> 
> One problem on the pages is that many different phrases are used
>  - like the one page  name is /mobile, then "GNOME Mobile",  "The GNOME
> Mobile Platform", "GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative", "GMAE", "GMAE
> technology", "GMAE Platform".
> 
> I think it is important to have a unique term And as it seems GMAE means
> "/Greater Minnesota Association of Evangelicals" ;-) And one needs to
> constantly use this term, which should be easily recognizable and
> writeable. I know renaming of an initiative is nothing to do lightly,
> but I think the long name /"GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative" is hard
> to grasp and is in itself not very unique (at least besides the term GNOME).
> 
> So a good logo plus a recognizable name plus a good direction would be
> important to also make the page better. I started looking at the page on
> the logo and then found that I could not connect the logo with the
> initiative name - and that the title did not contain GMAE - and then I
> realized that this is not yet a real brand like "GNOME" already is. But
> it  needs to be one to make more out of this initiative. And also the
> logo and brand should be connectable to GNOME by the sound and the look.
> 
> Regards,
> Thilo
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Dave Neary
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