Button for web pages

[Steve Lee]

One of our sponsors asked if we had anything to use to link from their site.

Does anyone fancy creating a button we can make available? We'd need a
logo first.

P.S. We still need sponsors - please consider who you could ask and
pass the prospectus on to them
http://barcamp.org/f/BarCamp-Oxford-sponsorship.pdf

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Steve Lee

http://transfersummit.com - the open source conference of the year
Two days, three tracks, a Gala Dinner and a BarCamp... Endless Possibilities!

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[Andrew Godwin]

Does BarcampOxford not have one of the traditional
logo-inside-wiggly-thing
(http://tantek.com/presentations/2006/11/building-blocks/barcamp-logo-final.png,
http://www.markbixby.com/images/site/barcamp-logo.jpg,
http://barcamp.my/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/barcamp300.png)? I
can't find the mug to check.

Anyway, I'm happy to whip up one of those styles of logos if we need it,
and then make a smaller version for linking magic.

Andrew

On 06/05/2010 13:18, Steve Lee wrote:
> One of our sponsors asked if we had anything to use to link from their site.
>
> Does anyone fancy creating a button we can make available? We'd need a
> logo first.
>
> P.S. We still need sponsors - please consider who you could ask and
> pass the prospectus on to them
> http://barcamp.org/f/BarCamp-Oxford-sponsorship.pdf
>
>

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[Steve Lee]

On 6 May 2010 14:22, Andrew Godwin <and...@aeracode.org> wrote:
> Does BarcampOxford not have one of the traditional logo-inside-wiggly-thing
> (http://tantek.com/presentations/2006/11/building-blocks/barcamp-logo-final.png,
> http://www.markbixby.com/images/site/barcamp-logo.jpg,
> http://barcamp.my/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/barcamp300.png)? I can't
> find the mug to check.

Andrew

Not that I can find. Last year had the Apache logo but no wiggly thing
(what *is* that? A foo fighter?)

> Anyway, I'm happy to whip up one of those styles of logos if we need it, and
> then make a smaller version for linking magic.

That would we great. Thanks

Steve

[Andrew Godwin]

On 06/05/10 14:31, Steve Lee wrote:
> Not that I can find. Last year had the Apache logo but no wiggly thing
> (what *is* that? A foo fighter?)
>

No idea what it actually is. For the moment, it's a hyperspacial
projectile of awesomeness.

I've taken the stencil and come up with two basic logos: One where I
just changed the colours to blue (I feel dark blue is a pretty Oxonian
colour), and one where I've worked the skyline into the bullet thing.
Thoughs?

Andrew

[Steve Lee]

On 6 May 2010 15:43, Andrew Godwin <and...@aeracode.org> wrote:
> I've taken the stencil and come up with two basic logos: One where I just
> changed the colours to blue (I feel dark blue is a pretty Oxonian colour),
> and one where I've worked the skyline into the bullet thing. Thoughs?

Lovely jubbly

I vote for 1. Its not quite as bold or as integral as 2 but I like the
spires customisation - it makes it more 'ours'.

Steve

[Ross Gardler]

On 06/05/2010 15:43, Andrew Godwin wrote:
> On 06/05/10 14:31, Steve Lee wrote:
>> Not that I can find. Last year had the Apache logo but no wiggly thing
>> (what *is* that? A foo fighter?)
>
> No idea what it actually is. For the moment, it's a hyperspacial
> projectile of awesomeness.
>
> I've taken the stencil and come up with two basic logos: One where I
> just changed the colours to blue (I feel dark blue is a pretty Oxonian
> colour), and one where I've worked the skyline into the bullet thing.
> Thoughs?

The "Oxonian" colours are only really for ox.ac.uk - the football team
is yellow and Brookes is read.

I'd rather go for the TransferSummit colours if people don't object
http://transfersummit.com/. Perhaps leave the swirly thihg (love the
skyline) in the blue we are using on the TS site and make the words orange.

Ross

[J-P Stacey]

> I vote for 1. Its not quite as bold or as integral as 2 but I like the
> spires customisation - it makes it more 'ours'.

I agree re: skyline - that's smashing. Nice one, Andrew. (Isn't the
BarCamp logo with the three lines meant to be some sort of kick-ass
manta ray, only: a kick-ass manta ray ON FIRE?)

Are we OK re: the licence on the core logo, modifying it so much?
They'd need to be under a modifications-allowed CC licence or
something. Either that or drop someone at Sekrit BarCamp Central High
Command a quick email. I'd provide more useful suggestions but
barcamp.org's search is currently down. Again.

J-P

[Andrew Godwin]

I've attached a version with orange for the text and blue for the manta
ray of awesome - matches the TransferSummit site colours reasonably, I'd
say.

And, J-P, the logo is under a *deep breath*
Creative Commons Non Commercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/>. Reading
through, it looks to be fine for our purposes.

Andrew

[Steve Lee]

On 6 May 2010 17:09, Andrew Godwin <and...@aeracode.org> wrote:
> I've attached a version with orange for the text and blue for the manta ray
> of awesome - matches the TransferSummit site colours reasonably, I'd say.

That really works for me. The grey seems darker to me and the little
colorXtractor FFx add-on I'm testing for someone says it's different.

Steve

[Andrew Godwin]

Oh, I didn't pick straight from the site, I picked the
closest/best-looking matches from a colour palette - it's a lot easier
to get a nice set of colours that way.

Andrew

[Steve Lee]

On 6 May 2010 17:26, Andrew Godwin <and...@aeracode.org> wrote:
> Oh, I didn't pick straight from the site, I picked the closest/best-looking
> matches from a colour palette - it's a lot easier to get a nice set of
> colours that way.

Ah, OK - it looks darker to me but what do others think?

[Matthew Westcott]

On 6 May 2010, at 17:29, Steve Lee wrote:

> On 6 May 2010 17:26, Andrew Godwin <and...@aeracode.org> wrote:
>> Oh, I didn't pick straight from the site, I picked the closest/best-looking
>> matches from a colour palette - it's a lot easier to get a nice set of
>> colours that way.
>
> Ah, OK - it looks darker to me but what do others think?

I think it's fabby, and hopefully I'm not rocking the boat too much if I
mention the word "bikeshed".

( http://bikeshed.com/ )

- Matt

[Ross Gardler]

On 06/05/2010 17:09, Andrew Godwin wrote:
> I've attached a version with orange for the text and blue for the manta
> ray of awesome - matches the TransferSummit site colours reasonably, I'd
> say.

Close enough for me - thanks. I'm all for this one, but given the
TransferSummit is only a sister event I will not insist on this logo
over the others.

Of course, if it is this logo then there'll be no problem convincing the
web designers to put it on the main site ;-)

> And, J-P, the logo is under a *deep breath* Creative Commons Non
> Commercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/>. Reading
> through, it looks to be fine for our purposes.

As long as we credit the original in the way they specify (whatever that
is).

Ross

[Ross Gardler]

On 06/05/2010 19:10, Matthew Westcott wrote:
> On 6 May 2010, at 17:29, Steve Lee wrote:
>> On 6 May 2010 17:26, Andrew Godwin <and...@aeracode.org> wrote:
>>> Oh, I didn't pick straight from the site, I picked the
>>> closest/best-looking
>>> matches from a colour palette - it's a lot easier to get a nice set of
>>> colours that way.
>>
>> Ah, OK - it looks darker to me but what do others think?
>
> I think it's fabby, and hopefully I'm not rocking the boat too much if I
> mention the word "bikeshed".
> ( http://bikeshed.com/ )

HeHe.

I just sent a private (as in offlist) mail to Steve pointing out that we
might be getting far too close to literally bikeshedding. So your
rocking my boat, but in a good way ;-)

Ross

[Steve Lee]

On 6 May 2010 19:10, Matthew Westcott <matthew....@torchbox.com> wrote:
> I think it's fabby, and hopefully I'm not rocking the boat too much if I
> mention the word "bikeshed".

Matthew, thanks for pointing that out. My intention was to give some
feedback to Andrew for a great contribution, not to ask for a specific
change. That'll teach me to play with new Ffx extensions. The funny
thing was that the word 'bikeshed' went through my mind after asking
what others think.

Keep on rocking.

Andrew: as I was not clear - I love it and think it will make a
fandabbydoozy button as is.

Steve

[Steve Lee]

On 6 May 2010 17:09, Andrew Godwin <and...@aeracode.org> wrote:

> I've attached a version with orange for the text and blue for the manta ray
> of awesome - matches the TransferSummit site colours reasonably, I'd say.

I'd like to propose this version goes on the wiki for use.

Steve

[Ross Gardler]

On 07/05/2010 12:55, Steve Lee wrote:
> On 6 May 2010 17:09, Andrew Godwin<and...@aeracode.org> wrote:
>> I've attached a version with orange for the text and blue for the manta ray
>> of awesome - matches the TransferSummit site colours reasonably, I'd say.
>
> I'd like to propose this version goes on the wiki for use.

+1

Can we also put a scalable version up there. If we do mugs we'll need a
hi res version.

Ross

[Andrew Godwin]

The source is an SVG - I'll upload the SVG as well as several
resolutions of PNG tonight.

Andrew

[Andrew Godwin]

> Can we also put a scalable version up there. If we do mugs we'll need
> a hi res version.
>

The wiki page now has the logo at the top, and five different formats in
the publicity section (one of them being SVG). If anyone wants me to
create absurdly large bitmaps for printing A0-size posters, just say.

I also saw that there's a poster on the page for the last barcamp, and a
redesign is needed; I'm happy to whip one of those up too, if people can
say what we want on it this year (where is it targeted? Noticeboards?
Distribution? These probably affect the content.)

Andrew

[Steve Lee]

On 7 May 2010 18:05, Andrew Godwin <and...@aeracode.org> wrote:
> The wiki page now has the logo at the top, and five different formats in the
> publicity section (one of them being SVG).

Wow that looks good. Thanks.

> I also saw that there's a poster on the page for the last barcamp, and a
> redesign is needed; I'm happy to whip one of those up too,

+1

Steve