[Eg-oversight-board] Evergreen trademark policy

[Rogan Hamby]

+1 for using both of them

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've done a bit of poking around with the EPS and SVG files.  I can
> confirm that the EPS file encodes the color as Pantone 340
> (specifically, Patone 340 CVC), and if one is actually printing it,
> it's probably better to go with the EPS to get the exact Pantone color
> match.  The SVG that Scribus generated translated that color to
> #008460.
>
> Since Pantone is a proprietary color standard, we could potentially
> enter a rather long digression about whether we should be insisting on
> Pantone to begin with.  I can't say I particularly want to pull on
> that thread, however; I suggest that we consider both the EPS and SVG
> to be normative.
>
> Ironically,
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Frankly whether its SVG or EPS doesn't matter much from a practical stand point.  The SVG file is more "open" but in practice any used to working with graphics will have EPS tools.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Feb 11, 2013, at 8:14 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In regards to to the exchange that Lori had with Tony Sebro, I would
>>> like to offer a couple points of clarification.
>>>
>>> First, the previous GPLS trademark policy located at
>>> http://www.georgialibraries.org/lib/pines/evergreenlogo/ does not
>>> apply now that the trademark is in the hands of the SFC and the
>>> Oversight Board has approved a trademark policy.  In fact, I see no
>>> reason for that GPLS web page to remain up; and will ask Tony to
>>> request that it be taken down.
>>>
>>> Second: we have, in fact, approved a trademark policy after lengthy
>>> discussion.  I'm a little confused why the GPLS policy is being
>>> discussed again; but if there are concerns about the approved policy
>>> as it stands now, please bring those up at the Oversight Board meeting
>>> this Wednesday.
>>>
>>> Finally, following Tony's suggest about making master version of the
>>> logo available as an SVG file, I've used the open source program
>>> Scribus [1] to convert the EPS to SVG.  I've attached it to this
>>> email; it looks OK to me, but then again, I'm not a graphics expert.
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Galen
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>
>
> --
> Galen Charlton
> Manager of Implementation
> Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
> email:  gmc at esilibrary.com
> direct: +1 770-709-5581
> cell:   +1 404-984-4366
> skype:  gmcharlt
> web:    http://www.esilibrary.com/
> Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org &
> http://evergreen-ils.org