Big Tent - Many Clowns...

[Jane Weideman]

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 10:18 -0400, flint at flint.com wrote:
> Jeff Elkner suggested to me and I suggest to the list that we are not
> being inclusive enough in this selection process.  Jeff pointed out to me
> that if an instructor or educational technologist in the future generates
> a version of Edubuntu (for instance using Launchpad :^) that would benefit
> from the chemistry-themed logo, then that is the logo that should be used.  
> 
> I believe that what Elkner is saying to us is that the rich set of
> alternatives for the edubuntu logo is a feature to be exploited not a bug
> to be eliminated.  
> 
> So my question to the list is "Why can't we just use them all?".

Er, I think while your suggestion does have merit, and we could have a
bank of usable designs available for distros. I think from a branding
perspective we should have one logo that becomes known as Edubuntu, and
certainly one chosen for the October official first release.

Strong brands have strong recognisable branding.

Thanks
JaneW