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[Tom Barton <>]

Actually the grouper logo was designed by a graphic arts professional 
then-employed by Internet2. The result, especially compared to the 
chicken-generated precursor (gulping fish - icthy!), makes me urge us to 
leave this to professionals.

Tom

Ken Klingenstein wrote:
> Folks,
>   As we ramp up the COmanage effort, there's a small bit of marketing 
> that invites your participation. It's around the logo and tag line for 
> COmanage.
>   Right now, the placeholder graphic is the one attached in the slide (a 
> gear with an orange C in it) with the tag line that COmanage is 
> "collaboration gear" - something that with a single crank (or cranky 
> user) drives the IdM in many different applications. Clearly marketing 
> did this before the martinis for inspiration...
>   One option is for us chickens on comanage-dev to come up with 
> something else or bless the gear.  The Shib logo and the Grouper logo 
> were done by chickens.
>   Another option is to use a branding company. Internet2 hired a company 
> to do InCommon (http://www.incommonfederation.org/). I was real pleased 
> with the result (even the unibrow :)), but it wasn't cheap or quick.
>   Comments? Other options? The default, sigh, is the gear...
>             Ken