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[Tim <darkxst@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31/08/15 16:00, Patrik Bubák wrote:
> Alfredo mentioned, that the Gnome board usually works very slow and if we'd wait for them we would wait quite long since they have their own
> things to take care of and it might be long overdue our release of 15.10 before they respond. We would like to make it on time. It would also
> look very awkward when everyone talks about it, but no word is heard from us.
>
> We  talked about it and concluded, that there is not much for them to approve. They in fact can be glad, that we are no longer using their
> logo to represent ourselves, because the roundel was causing the headache and the new roundel eliminates all confusion when used as a
> standalone, which was the main goal of this project.
>
> In the end it is not for them to decide what we choose to use as our logo unless it is somehow in conflict, which it was until now, but not
> any more.
exactly the standalone logo/roundel that is now on boot screen, wall papers etc is perfectly ok, they have no say in that.
>
> The "GNOME" wordmark, that has been discussed is without a change and something they agreed on before. This change is primarily about the
> roundel with which we are doing them a favour.
The full logo with the wordmark, will probably be ok, but we could hold off on publicising that too much before approval.

I think the real issue was using the roundel by itself, in which case they were worried that it lost the connection to Ubuntu and hence our
social media pages in particular may have been falsely representing us as being an actual GNOME project.

So really now it comes down to if they are ok with our new roundel, attached to the GNOME wordmark. I don't believe they have an issue with the
actual name of the distro, since we did get approval for that from both GNOME and Canonical.
>
> If you need to wait for a statement from Alfredo then all right, wait until tomorrow at least because he is travelling, but you'll hear the
> same from him.
>
> On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 13:42 +1000, Ali/amjjawad wrote:
>> Hi all, 
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Patrik Bubák <bubapa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bubapa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     Waiting for word from Keith who already started working on an announcement. 
>>
>>
>>
>> OMG Ubuntu is very well-known of jumping and sharing information that the official project/community did not yet announce and despite how
>> many times, myself and others have talked to them, they decided to ignore it and do what they like :)
>>
>>
>> That said, I care less about them sharing that :)
>>
>>
>> What I do care about is:
>>
>> What happened between us and GNOME? did they approve it? all set? what else needed? only the official announcement? 
>>
>>   
>>
>>
>>     Sent on the go 🙋 
>>
>>
>>     On 31 Aug 2015 2:02 am, Tim <darkxst@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:darkxst@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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>>     > On 30/08/15 22:12, Patrik Bubák wrote:
>>     > > https://twitter.com/omgubuntu/status/637950981347651585
>>     > >
>>     > > OMGUbuntu has started tweeting about the new logo and WOGUE posted a status update about it some time ago.
>>     > >
>>     > > I think it would be only appropriate if we released an official statement.
>>     > Patrik, sure go for it!
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>>     > > Nothing ruins creativity like too many voices weighing in. We call it the /Ice Cream Principle/. Tell 10 people to go get ice cream
>>     with one
>>     > > condition: they all have to agree on one flavour. That flavour is going to be chocolate or vanilla every time. Groups of people don't
>>     agree on
>>     > > what's cool or interesting, they agree on what's easy to agree on.
>>     > >
>>     >
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>> -- 
>> Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us."
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Ali/amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad>
>>
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> Nothing ruins creativity like too many voices weighing in. We call it the /Ice Cream Principle/. Tell 10 people to go get ice cream with one
> condition: they all have to agree on one flavour. That flavour is going to be chocolate or vanilla every time. Groups of people don't agree on
> what's cool or interesting, they agree on what's easy to agree on.
>