From graphics-request at octave dot org Sun Feb 19 23:17:34 2006
Subject: Re: Octave Workshop logo
From: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
To: Sebastien Loisel <sloisel at gmail dot com>
cc: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>,         octave-graphics <graphics@octave.org>, clearbeast@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:17:01 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Sebastien Loisel wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've recruited Lee Olson, a KDE artist, to make me the handful of logos 
> I need for Octave Workshop (splash screen, install logo, minimization 
> icon, perhaps eventually also for the web page, all at various scales.) 
> I think the main reason is that the graphic I use on the splash screen 
> is allegedly public domain, but I have no proof of that.
>
> We need to decide what kind of logo we're going to use. One possibility 
> is to use the sombrero, as it is already associated with Octave. 
> However, if people prefer to keep things distinct, we can just go with 
> something different, as I had done with the blackboard.
>
> So let me know what you think and then I'll ask Lee to do it.

One thing that I'd like (if he's willing) would be a better generic icon 
that can be used for both the regular icon and for a website favicon (the 
only one that I can find at the moment is 
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/octave/octave-forge/admin/Windows/octave.ico?rev=1.1&view=log 
which I'm not personally all that fond of).

Bill

-- 
"We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and
snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies."
   -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe