XSF Communications Team - 2020-01-29

Did a rough design for a banner that I might still order today for FOSDEM

https://upload.ik.nu/upload/eskKLYi1N2-YT60a/XMPP_banner.pdf

Comments?

Who chose the font? :)

"better than nothing"

OSPDSEF FTW!!!

Licaon_Kter, the font is from the same family as the "XMPP" in our logo

jonas’, heh. That's high praise, I'm sure.

ralphm, I see a few things which seem odd to me, but I realize that we don’t have the time to bikeshed the design now :)

so kudos for doing this, I think it’s good to have

jonas’, I can still change a few things around

it is a rough design, and given the parameters, it turned out well

jonas’, so any input is welcome

ralphm, I’d start with double-checking the left-aligning of the words on the left

they seem slightly ragged, but that may be my renderer (firefox, *sigh*), too ✏

Hmm, they should be perfectly aligned. Let me check

also, I’m not sure how readable the font really is on that scale. what Licaon_Kter alluded to is also slightly weird to me. maybe we need enumeration symbols (arrows?) in front of the left words

more non-word content would be great, but that’s not easy to get

icons for each of the "bullet points" on the left would be a fantastic start

And what about the words on the right then? They are currently right-aligned.

beyond that, converting the list to a grid (possibly dropping extensible in favour of flexible or vice-versa to make it 2x3) each with a larger icon would be my next suggestion

ralphm, I don’t know about those at all

they are hard to read, too, due to the alignment, but again that might be different at scale

I took the left words from https://xmpp.org/about/technology-overview.html

ralphm, how about re-ordering the left words so that their length more closely matches up with the curve of the logo part in the background?

(same for the right hand side)

Heh, I haven't considered that.

https://upload.ik.nu/upload/tATjf6SeZsOKsB5i/XMPP_banner_length_ordered.pdf

jonas’, did you mean like this?

yes

not sure if it’s better tho

try moving the words so that they align with the bottom part of the horns instead of the upper tip

I tried this but it looks weird(er)

Instead I tried aligning with the lower corner of the top of the swoosh

https://upload.ik.nu/upload/wkmO5k1WaZTLUoqI/XMPP_banner_3.pdf

I like that better

Nÿco, Guus, SouL, should you have comments, let me know.

Somehow, the W touching the tip of the horn looks a bit weird, but _3 looks best of the three.

ralphm, I, too, like it better

what intosi says though, maybe reduce the horizontal margins for the text slightly?

so that the W doesn’t touch directly

I don't have a strong preference. Thanks for doing this!

Nÿco: no editing of tweets and toots, right? > Thu 30 and Fri 30

Ordered

Nÿco: Jan 24 https://fosstodon.org/@xmpp/103537239820683215 But Jan 12 4.2.2 already out https://apps.apple.com/us/app/monal-free-xmpp-chat/id317711500

> Did a rough design for a banner that I might still order today for FOSDEM > https://upload.ik.nu/upload/eskKLYi1N2-YT60a/XMPP_banner.pdf > Comments? I would s/Decentralized/Federated/ because we are using federation which only is one specific decentralisation pattern

otherwise, it's awesome, thx for this!

Licaon_Kter yes, mistakes were made, sorry... /me is punishing himself :)

Nÿco: I understand your point, but Federation appears to mean different things to different people.

And I just took what we have on our website now.

Fine

between what's technically precise and correct... and what people perceive/understand, well huh... that :)

in my experience, on the French market, federation seems a bit better, as decentralise does now belong to the blockchain realm

the banner's gonna rock anyway, thx!

bedankt

Thanks!

Will there be XMPP sweatshirts to buy at FOSDEM ?

There are a few left from last year. Nobody worked on new ones.

I can actually see myself wearing last year's model!

Mine was still dirty when I packed my luggage. Guess I'll have to buy a new one...