[ZDP] Re: OSWG Logo

[Tom Deprez]

Hi Abhijeet and other graphic contributors,

Really thanks for replying! While I was mailing to you, other people also
searched for candidates. Sorry, we (zdp) didn't knew this from each other
you. So, now we've about 3 people who want to contribute. I hope this
doesn't mind, because we could use several ideas.

You asked me if there were some guidelines. Well, not directly, but there
are a few. ZDP had always orange/purple colors, so it should be something
with these colors (you can also see the orange color in the Zope
Documentation Portal titel). Further, Maik, proposed to use a mole 'El
Zope'o'Mole' see also picture at zdp.zope.org. I think it's a nice idea.
Following these thoughts I was thinking on a Mole who was coming out of
some Portal (eg. such portals like you see in Dungeon & Dragon Games, ie.
some mysterious orbs). At last it would be nice if we could include the
initials ZDP to it. Perhaps that the D is the 'orb', or that a mole comming
out of an 'orb' is pushing the letters 'Z', 'D', 'P' out of the orb...
(like a mole thus with piles of sand)

What do you all think?

Tom.

At 14:26 04/05/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear Tom,
>
>Thank you for your email. I have played with Zope for a couple of hours
only but I think it is a great application. The Zope Documentation Project
is a wonderful idea that will be of immense value to web developers who
want to use Zope.
>
>I would love to help out ZDP by designing it's logo.  Do any ZDP members
have some ideas about what they want from the logo? Are there any
restrictions or guidelines? Do you have a time-frame in mind?
>
>I understand that non-profit volunteer-based projects cannot afford to
pay. That is okay with me as long as due credit is given (similar to the
acknowledgement on the OSWG page). 
>
>I do web-development work in my day job so I will try to make the logo
suitable for web graphics. I also use GNU tools for graphics development
(just so you know).
>
>
>Let me know if you would like me to start thinking about the logo.
>
>Looking forward to hearing from you.
>
>- Abhijeet
>
>Tom Deprez <tom.deprez@uz.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
>>Sorry to disturb you with this question, but I've seen your logo at oswg
>>and really like it. I'm wondering if you would like to help our project
also. 
>>We our people who are trying to make a portal where people can find all
>>information on Zope: ZDP (Zope documentation Project).
>>Zope (www.zope.org) is an open-source web application server
>>(object-oriented) and is rapidly growing in interest. Even OSWG it's
>>beta-site is build with Zope.
>>At the moment we're really doing our best to create a nice portal
>>(http://zdp.zope.org), but we miss some nice touch, like a logo. Since none
>>of our people are that artistic, we've to ask outside our group if people
>>are interested in making a logo. However, -and here comes the clue, like
>>always - ZDP is entirely based on volunteers, who work on it during their
>>free time. This means that we can't pay the person who would make the logo.
>>Of course, the persons name will be referenced in the portal, all credits
>>to the creator!
>>
>>Thus my question is if you would like to create a logo for the ZDP project?
>>If it is possible. I fully understand if it is not possible at all, but all
>>I ask is to reply always with a mail, so we know what we can expect.
>>
>>Thanks for reading so far,
>>
>>Kind Regards,
>>Tom deprez
>
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