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… bikeshedding … Let’s just make it compatible with OSI and get over with it.
Much of what I refrained from adding might have been bike shed chat.
For now (whilst the forum is not open to the public) I have simply experimented with one of the logos that were presented; I’ll take a screenshot to GitHub.
I actually quite like the logo in this context.
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I think we either have to first decide whether we appoint this to someone to act on or whether we want to let it be a free for all and everyone submits ideas and then come a date we all vote.
An idea: do we use the brush logo inside of a variety of shapes? I feel like that would go well with the identity that had already been explored here.
I have various thoughts, plus a bunch of things to provoke thoughts from other people, but I’m restraining myself until after an agreement is reached in the GitHub area.
So we’re going to wait for that topic to close and a new logo to be picked there?
We should use, here, whatever is agreed in the GitHub area.
In the meantime I do like the hexagon. I see nothing troubling about it.
I take the thumbs up at https://github.com/opensourcedesign/organization/issues/68#issuecomment-292367395 as an early indication that OSD community members who have an interest in the logo might be happy to take things forward in this forum.
While there is no agreement on the new logo, we should use what we currently use on our website, Twitter and Github: The existing circle logo.
There is no agreement at all yet about the hexagon, which just has too much of a »node.js« touch. Please use the Open Source Design logo at https://github.com/opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io/blob/master/images/opensourcedesign-logo.svg 
– until we agree on a real new logo there should be no fragmentation of identity.
From Open Source Design needs a new logo · Issue #68 · opensourcedesign/organization · GitHub
- wide rectangular, to appear initially at top left
I spent around half an hour seeking a rectangular version. Amongst the finds, Update logos by simonv3 · Pull Request #24 · opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io · GitHub led to Open Source Design but that page probably related to things such as Logos · Issue #18 · opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io
In the meantime I’ll use a copy of http://opensourcedesign.net/images/osd-logo.png for both purposes.
As much as I share the wish for consistency, I also wish to respect the OSI; to not open this forum to the public until after agreement has been reached on a change.
To further promote the existing logo, in an additional channel, after attention has been drawn to a licensing issue, might be perceived as disrespectful.
From my perspective: one of the issues is respect for the OSI.
If there’s a majority wish to open the forum with the contentious logo, I’ll not veto.
@grahamperrin I thought it was the github_client_thingy that was holding things up. I think deciding on a new logo will take too long. If the current logo is a problem, can we just go with no logo?
Patience, please, folks 
If we’re lucky, Patrick Masson might reply today.
Certainly the site will function with none of the logos. Please see the explanatory texts beneath the fields in the Required section of site settings.
During the period when changes to DNS were awaited, the period during which I refrained from gaining access, the appearance of the site was almost exactly as suggested by those texts. As far as I recall, there was one exception – if I can find a screenshot, I’ll add it here.
Found.
The exception was the favicon, which had a Discourse identity to it. Visible in the cropped screenshot at https://github.com/opensourcedesign/organization/issues/68#issuecomment-293423914
Just by the way, I’d say that we should use the »OSD« acronym as little as possible and use »Open Source Design«. It’s much easier to understand and there’s only few cases (not enough space) where it’s apt to use the acronym. »OSD« by itself is a very »in-crowd« term and is not understandable by outsiders on its own.
Also, OSD already stands for other things like »On-screen display« and »Open Source Definition«. 
Multiple meanings of OSD are amongst the comments that I’m holding back. Whilst I continue to hold back, I’d love other people to keep this topic lively. Thanks.
Back, for a moment, to the quote from the opening post:
… bikeshedding … Let’s just make it compatible with OSI and get over with it.
The call to vote under Open Source Design needs a new logo · Issue #68 · opensourcedesign/organization:
Experimental use of a square-shaped logo for this forum:
On one hand:
On the other hand:
If this forum moves very quickly to go-live with the square-shaped logo:
If you have any objection to a rapid go-live with the square-shaped logo that is currently seen, please raise that objection now.
Thank you, everyone!
This was resolved by using the interim square logo as we also do everywhere else.
Closing.
