Jupyter notebook branding in edu

[Tony Hirst]

Hi

We've been using Jupyter notebooks for 3 years or so now in a single distance higher education course with a branded identity that looks like this:

We take take to refer to Jupyter notebooks and make it clear that the notebook server etc is part of an open source project. In the medium term, I would hope that we might be able to start committing back (internal developers are already regular committers to Moodle, for example).

At the moment, the courses uses a custom VM distributed to students to run a single user notebook server. However, we're hoping that several more courses will soon start using notebooks, and that an on-campus hosted a solution will be available (ideally, both Jupyterhub and Binderhub). To provide a consistent student user experience, we'd like to brand the notebooks, by default in a style something like the above. We also have brand guidelines about where/how our logo is placed on a page.

What I wanted to check as we (hopefully) move from a cottage industry promoting single user notebooks in a VM to a data science/management cohort, to a more wider student base, was any requirements on brand identity, use of Jupyter logos etc. before our internal rights compliance folk start getting worried.

thanks

--tony

[Matthias Bussonnier]

Hi Tony, 

Happy to see you were able to brand Jupyter Notebook, we welcome feedback on how difficult that was. 

As far as your use of the Jupyter name/logo, I suggest for you to read the trademark documents[1].

We are working on making it easier to to have "Power by Jupyter" and design work that can be reused without concern for trademark.

From the screenshot, I don't see any issues with you replacing the Jupyter Logo/Name. Issues would be more if you were using Jupyter Logo trademark with non-official products. Though I'm not the one calling the shot and not a trademark lawyer[2].

I believe if you are concerned with using the logos , I believe we could figure out how to legally grant you permission to use the logo/names in a specific restricted context.

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M

1: https://github.com/jupyter/governance/blob/master/trademarks.md

2: The Jupyter Trademark is owned by NumFOCUS, and TM infringement issues by their attorney.

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[Tony Hirst]

Hi Matthias - 

Thanks for the feedback... IIRC, it was a bit of faff getting the logo in place, and I hacked a bit of css that I think just pushes the other logo out of the way.

Here's the custom.css file:

#header-container.container {height: 72px;}

#ipython_notebook img{

/* http://stackoverflow.com/a/24633671/454773 */

display:block;

-moz-box-sizing: border-box;

box-sizing: border-box;

background: url(OU-logo-83x65.png) no-repeat;

  width: 83px; /* Width of new image */

  height: 65px; /* Height of new image */

  padding-left: 83px; /* Equal to width of new image */

}

We also used to have an extension that nicely coloured cells to mark them out as activity related cells, but they stopped working a long time ago with notebook style changes and we never got round to fixing them.

--tony