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["Michael R. Gettes" <>]

ditto.

/mrg

On Jun 19, 2008, at 18:40, Tom Barton wrote:

> 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