Hello Design,
This is a little frivolous, but I thought it'd be pleasant if the Vagrant MediaWiki instance (https://github.com/wikimedia/wmf-vagrant) was configured with its own logo, rather than the "Set $wgLogo to the path to your own logo image" default image.
There is a crop of rejected Wikidata logos here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Logo_voting
Some are quite nice and graphically generic, and I bet the authors wouldn't mind if the logo was appropriated for a different use (they're all CC, but it'd still be nice to ask.)
I'm emailing the list (a) to see which one you'd choose, and (b) on the off-chance that one of you would enjoy making a new one.
Thanks! O
-- Ori Livneh ori@wikimedia.org
In case no actual designer weighs in ;-) ... for a lazy adaptation from the existing logos, I'd pick one of these:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Logo_TMg_Hexagon_Cube.svg [my favorite] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Logo_TMg_Hexagon_Brackets.s... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Logo_TMg_Hexagon_3.svg
Overlapping squares/boxes are already pretty commonly used for VMs for obvious reasons, and the color scheme looks appropriately technical to me.
Compare: http://www.cloudave.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/openstack-logo5... (OpenStack) http://www.thegeeksclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/vmware-logo.jpg (vmware) https://lh3.ggpht.com/-M7dKAt0AGL0/UFMmrYbrJDI/AAAAAAAAAr4/g_t4cVHVXKg/s1600... (VirtualBox)
HTH, Erik
How about some stylized version of a hobocode symbol?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo_code#Hobo_.28sign.29_code
On Nov 20, 2012, at 11:56 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
In case no actual designer weighs in ;-) ... for a lazy adaptation from the existing logos, I'd pick one of these:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Logo_TMg_Hexagon_Cube.svg [my favorite] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Logo_TMg_Hexagon_Brackets.s... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Logo_TMg_Hexagon_3.svg
Overlapping squares/boxes are already pretty commonly used for VMs for obvious reasons, and the color scheme looks appropriately technical to me.
Compare: http://www.cloudave.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/openstack-logo5... (OpenStack) http://www.thegeeksclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/vmware-logo.jpg (vmware) https://lh3.ggpht.com/-M7dKAt0AGL0/UFMmrYbrJDI/AAAAAAAAAr4/g_t4cVHVXKg/s1600... (VirtualBox)
HTH, Erik
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A standard wiki logo in an opened http://vagrantup.com/ box. Without the creepy dude, with optional animated GIF packing peanuts :-)
(I tried pasting the above command string into Inkscape and nothing happened. Stupid computers.)
-- =S Page software engineer on E3