[UbuntuWomen] launchpad icon?

[Vid.A]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Fred H Olson <fholson at cohousing.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Vid.A wrote:
>
>> in many parts of the world some folks may not know the + represents a
>> womens group so maybe we should consider keeping the "UW" or
>> "Ubuntu-Women" of "UbuntuWomen" or "Ubuntu"/"Women" (text up and down)
>> , below the logo.
>
> I did not know the "+" represents a  womens group ( I am not a FLOS
> developer, I'm unsure who will be viewing this icon at Launchpad).
> I presume "+" was chosen as resembling the female gender symbol
> (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_symbol )

right :)

> But since the icon is a graphic and therefore any symbol/image could be
> included, why not use the female gender symbol itself rather than
> the "+" ?  I presume many more people would recognise it.
>

Relevancy. IIUC, that is the main idea behind keeping the "+" under
the generic Ubuntu logo. It says, UW is a sub-project, part of the
main Ubuntu community, and welcomes all internationally (since we have
not changed the colours, loco teams keep their national flag colours,
but i dunno what the art team will comeup with finally) ; which may
not be the same if we use a common gender symbol.  What do you all
think?

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