Change our branding to diaspora* (lower case).
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There's a discussion in the Outreach group about changing our branding, and there appears to be consensus for dropping the initial capital from Diaspora in logos and official communications.
However, although this is a small change (one letter), it is a major change in terms of how we present ourselves, so I thought we should have a proper vote on it with as many people as possible participating.
The asterisk remains a key part of our branding.
So the proposal is that we change the logo to diaspora* in Roboto bold, and that in official communications, we style the name diaspora* (lower case, with the asterisk).
In longer prose documents, such as wiki articles, it will still be fine to use Diaspora (capital, no asterisk) as the diaspora* style can get intrusive if used a lot in a page.
It will still be fine to use a logo which is just an asterisk, as various pods do, and to use other artwork (e.g. a hand-drawn logo) in certain cases.
Poll Created Sat 10 Aug 2013 10:41AM
Change branding to diaspora* Inchis Tue 20 Aug 2013 5:03PM
I think we can consider this passed, with some reservations. This only affects 'official' communications from the Foundation, and individuals, including podmins, need not be constrained by it - they can style their pods as they like.
As stated in the discussion content, drop the use of Diaspora or Diaspora* in branding (official text communications and logos) and switch to diaspora* (lower case).
There are other elements to the branding proposal, but let's vote just on this one for now.
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De acord | 48.4% | 15 |
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| abține-te | 29.0% | 9 |
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| Dezacord | 22.6% | 7 |
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| bloc | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Nehotărât | 0% | 250 |
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31 din 281 persoane au participat (11%)
Faldrian
Sat 10 Aug 2013 11:00AM
I like the capital D, Diaspora is not just "twitter" or "facebook" or "myspace", we have a proper Noun as brandname and should be proud of it and write correctly. ;)
I'm for Diaspora* as it has been.
Taylor McLeod
Sat 10 Aug 2013 8:40PM
Mozilla is not easily confused with other meanings of the term. Diaspora can easily confused with the dictionary meaning of the word. It may be useful to denote proper noun. I feel like 'D' balances out the '' in Diaspora. Not a big deal though.
Maciek Łoziński
Mon 12 Aug 2013 12:48PM
when in logo - in my opinion it looks better without capitalization.
Malte Dik
Mon 12 Aug 2013 11:32PM
What about the shortened "D*"? "d*" doesn't work in my opinion.
Seth Martin
Tue 13 Aug 2013 7:18PM
I kinda like the capital D, but it's not important to me.
OpenLifeChallenge
Thu 15 Aug 2013 9:11PM
Tough decision. Kinda agree on the re-branding because I like the consequent idea but at the same time it removes the name-feeling to it...
Jelle Langbroek
Fri 16 Aug 2013 10:15PM
Agreed to the balancing of D and *
Also it's still a name so it should read Diaspora IMO
yogrt
Sat 17 Aug 2013 11:09PM
Agreed, a non capital makes it stand out more from most commercial brands I reckon.
jonsger
Sun 18 Aug 2013 5:18PM
all letters capital is the best.