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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: openSUSE Release Engineering meeting 03.01.2024
From:       Patrick Shanahan <paka () opensuse ! org>
Date:       2024-01-03 19:23:25
Message-ID: 20240103192325.GG5075 () wahoo ! no-ip ! org
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* Christian Boltz <opensuse@cboltz.de> [01-03-24 12:41]:
> Hallo zusammen,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2024, 16:55:08 CET schrieb Lubos Kocman via 
> openSUSE Factory:
> > Leap already has a wallpaper including the newly elected logo, perhaps
> > we could scan for some other occurrences of the old logo. I see one
> > in "About system" in gnome-settings. I suspect that KDE will have a
> > similar placement.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a good idea.
> 
> The logo survey had some serious flaws, most important: it did not 
> include our current logo, despite being submitted by someone. (And I'll 
> not even start with the detail that it wasn't automatically included. 
> Even I am not evil enough to come up with such an idea.)
> 
> The main reason why the logo discussion is currently quiet is that we 
> got a promise that there will be a membership vote where we can choose 
> between the current and the possible new logo.
> 
> However, that also means that geeko, our current logo is still our logo.
> I have serious doubts that the majority of our members want a new logo, 
> therefore it might be a good idea not to replace our current logo until 
> we had the membership vote about it. (Unless someone is keen to possibly 
> revert several *-branding packages.)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian Boltz
> 
> PS: non-random signature
> -- 
> <lcp> maybe openSUSE should go oldschool and be o.p.e.n.S.U.S.E
> * cboltz will send the hungry "goodbye dots" geeko to avoid that
> * lcp might create a geeko without a mouth just to avoid that
> [from #opensuse-admin]


agreed.  Changing logos is about changing IDENTITY.  why would we want to
do that.  is our history not something to be proud of?


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