XSF Communications Team - 2020-08-06


  1. emus

    debacle: Hmm, I have no idea - but you should be able to transfer the color into a better printabale spectrum, right?

  2. emus

    dies anyone have a ycominator account and can post the newsletter after release?

  3. emus

    does anyone have a ycominator account and can post the newsletter after release?

  4. Licaon_Kter

    emus: really, why bother? It will be about Matrix and IRC and Pidgin...

  5. emus

    Let them bothere what they want.

  6. Licaon_Kter

    :))

  7. emus

    right?

  8. Licaon_Kter

    As iNPUTmice said on the C muc, Matrix has this stream of info, that even if does not amount to anything now ( _soon p2p_, _soon dendrite_ etc) it does make Matrix seem current, always developing, always in the news So, yeah, having the same for XMPP is not bad

  9. Licaon_Kter

    Here. For August newsletter Dino gets funding for A/V christian: https://nlnet.nl/project/Dino/

  10. Licaon_Kter

    Here. For August newsletter Dino gets funding for A/V https://nlnet.nl/project/Dino/

  11. emus

    uh nice

  12. debacle

    emus, yes, of course I can change the logo. However, it would be nice, if there were an "official version", so that everybody in need would use the same one. Also, I'm lazy^Wbusy! ;-)

  13. emus

    Does anyone know who designed the logo?

  14. debacle

    People in the free software community should talk to designers before they decide for a logo. Take e.g. the new Debian logo. The old one (a kind of chicken, maybe a penguin poult) was ugly, but it was relatively good for printing. The new one is beautiful, but when you need to print it in some kind of material, e.g. laser cutting or certain types of prints on textile, you suffer from the very difficult form with far too many edges.

  15. goffi

    emus: Raja SANDHU for XMPP Standards Foundation (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:XMPP_logo.svg), I think it's indicated somewhere on xmpp.org too.

  16. debacle

    Bad: Too many colours.

  17. debacle

    Bad: Gradients.

  18. debacle

    Bad: Too complicated forms.

  19. emus

    goffi: Thank you verymuch!

  20. debacle

    XMPP logo suffers from 1 and 2, Debian from 3.

  21. goffi

    debacle: I think a designer has been paid for XMPP logo, cf. my message above.

  22. emus

    debacle: Because its not matchen your kitchen its not bad design πŸ˜‰

  23. emus

    debacle: Because its not matching your kitchen its not bad design πŸ˜‰

  24. debacle

    emus, no, it's not about taste. It's about practical use.

  25. emus

    Sorry, misread chicken witj kitchen

  26. debacle

    Ah OK ;-)

  27. emus

    Yes I know. but its also lots of workz that were very different times

  28. debacle

    If I ask a designer to create a logo, the designer might ask me: Is it mainly for online usage, is it supposed to be used in different resolutions, esp. very small and very large, is printing important or not.

  29. debacle

    Depending on my answers, they will produce different things, of course.

  30. debacle

    The XMPP logo is not bad after all, but a version without gradients and less colours would be cool.

  31. pep.

    There's a "remake" of the logo used for the newsletter stuff on twitter / mastodon by somebody (who isn't joined atm apparently)

  32. pep.

    There's only 4 colors

  33. debacle

    pep. That's a step in the right direction! ;-)

  34. pep.

    https://fosstodon.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/005/013/815/original/4a244fa79ece7326.jpeg

  35. pep.

    I do prefer this one :)

  36. debacle

    That's nice, indeed!

  37. emus

    It is!

  38. debacle

    If the green in the "wing" were replaced with the dark green of the letters, we would go down to three colours. What do you think?

  39. emus

    Actually I would do it vice versa

  40. emus

    use the XMPP green

  41. debacle

    The other way, having the letters in light green gives bad contrast on the white background, unfortunately.

  42. emus

    also remove the fourth blue

  43. emus

    hmm I think it can still work

  44. debacle

    The blue on both wings are identical, emus

  45. emus

    in the right corner

  46. debacle

    which is the official "XMPP green" emus?

  47. emus

    from the logo?

  48. debacle

    emus, ah, OK, I ignored the multi colour line on the bottom anyway ;-)

  49. debacle

    I just looked at the symbol and the "XMPP" letters

  50. emus

    just saying

  51. emus

    sure

  52. debacle

    the official XMPP logo has two types of green, light and dark

  53. debacle

    we should use only one for the enhanced logo

  54. debacle

    I slightly prefer the dark, if the letters are supposed to be green, because of contrast

  55. debacle

    However, we could use the light green and make the letters blue

  56. debacle

    Or maybe even the orange, which fits my XMPP hoody!

  57. debacle

    (which has black letters on orange background)

  58. emus

    debacle: Maybe you can propse you thought into an issue on github?

  59. debacle

    I always have technical problems with GH. They hate me ;-) But I post one or two or three SVGs here, OK?

  60. emus

    Is fine for me

  61. emus

    actually I thought only about you thoughts, but svg would be fine of course

  62. debacle

    https://xmpp.debian.org:5281/upload/-lpVN0mCekuBf3VZ/XMPP_logo_1.svg

  63. debacle

    https://xmpp.debian.org:5281/upload/3Qqa4k3A_lsJzGoM/XMPP_logo_2.svg

  64. debacle

    https://xmpp.debian.org:5281/upload/SMQRpshwhlF5uT2I/XMPP_logo_3.svg

  65. debacle

    https://xmpp.debian.org:5281/upload/Nv-JurYev7VaM94d/XMPP_logo_4.svg

  66. debacle

    https://xmpp.debian.org:5281/upload/geMIJ2zvXr0oOccz/XMPP_logo_5.svg

  67. debacle

    Five variants, that all use only three colours each.

  68. debacle

    And no gradients ;-)

  69. SouL

    Third variant is pretty cool

  70. debacle

    emus goffi pep. Any opinion? (AFK now, but back soon.)

  71. Licaon_Kter

    > Third variant is pretty cool +1

  72. emus

    Third one is really nice! please drop them to Github!

  73. emus

    ###### Anyway, I have to ask to freeze the discussion for a few minutes because I am releasing the July Newsletter now and may need support #######

  74. goffi

    1 and 3 for me, I don't like the other ones (looks like they've been washed too much)

  75. goffi

    debacle: ^

  76. wurstsalat

    3 looks nice

  77. emus

    It rendered nearly perfect! https://xmpp.org/2020/08/newsletter-06-august/

  78. emus

    Email to more than 430 subscribers!

  79. Licaon_Kter

    Eh, I knew I had to mention the eturnal support MUC, just seen the WA bridge one there :)

  80. emus

    Yeah, with the next newsletter we can use the links.

  81. emus

    I also started to think about two possible improvements:

  82. emus

    - Dont continue writing the date of the Newsletter - just call the month and also do that for each branch etc. Its absolutely confusing I think

  83. emus

    - Limit each news to 4 rendered lines in general, exceptions are okay

  84. Licaon_Kter

    Depends, eg Mongoose benchmark had too much imho

  85. emus

    So, one with a newscombinator account may drop it there - that would be great. I still have no access to the social media accounts

  86. Licaon_Kter

    Monal had the proper link but I explained what xep is now supported, its title and the normie info, what should be skipped?

  87. emus

    No clue, we can also make ut 6 rendered lines. but those should not be too much. lets say at least if there is a lot content

  88. Licaon_Kter

    > - Limit each news to 4 rendered lines in general, exceptions are okay How long is a line? :)) classic 80 chars?

  89. Licaon_Kter

    Profanity had no link to release :n

  90. Licaon_Kter

    Profanity had no link to release :(

  91. emus

    😬️

  92. emus

    yeah - put to list: Links should be cross check in an "extra review"

  93. emus

    I got a hint that the Newsletter goes into some peoples spam folders. Does anyone have similar experience? jcbrand, SouL:

  94. emus

    eventually spam protection gets triggered by nycos private email. Maybe we should change it to an official commteam one

  95. emus

    mail4.tinyletterapp.com maybe it should be something like this at the end

  96. debacle

    emus https://framasphere.org/posts/b9c25460ba3d0138b6cf2a0000053625

  97. emus

    yeah!

  98. pep.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24073845

  99. pep.

    Let the trolls come now

  100. emus

    haha

  101. wurstsalat

    Wow, reading the newsletter I realize how many things happened last month. Good read! :)

  102. emus

    😎😍

  103. debacle

    emus https://framapiaf.org/@debacle/104643920501318043

  104. SouL

    > I got a hint that the Newsletter goes into some peoples spam folders. Does anyone have similar experience? First time I hear this. From working in ecommerce, I know if people put it into the spam folder, Gmail puts you into the spammers list. In our case I want to think this does not happen of course 😁

  105. debacle

    OK, version 3 was the most popular one, so here is a variant of it:

  106. debacle

    https://xmpp.debian.org:5281/upload/2gn1HUjAHvliSwfF/XMPP_logo_6.svg

  107. emus

    πŸ‘οΈ

  108. emus

    Can you upload this to the Github repo?

  109. emus

    In an issue or so?

  110. Licaon_Kter

    SouL: put it in spam and end up in spam is different

  111. debacle

    emus, I tried, but I have too many technical difficulties with github. First, they don't like one browser, because it is too old, than, they don't like that the other does not support JS, now I can't attach SVGs to an issue - I just give up on github for now.

  112. debacle

    it would be nice, if somebodyβ„’ (= not me) could upload all six variants to a github issue and more people could comment on pros and cons

  113. debacle

    so far, I believe that variant no. 6 is not too bad for printing on textile and not too ugly

  114. pep.

    debacle, fwiw, I don't like any of the XMPP logo you sent :p

  115. pep.

    Or rather I preferred the one used for the newsletter

  116. emus

    I can drop them into an unofficial folder

  117. debacle

    pep. can you add that one to the list then? the only drawback of the newsletter version is, that it has one colour more, four instead of three, but if the colour of the letters were changed to one of the logo colours, that would be solved. Four colours is just more expensive to print than three colours ;-)

  118. debacle

    emus, it would be nice if we could vote for one "semi-official" logo, so that people printing the logo could all use the same one - and then remove the non-voted ones.

  119. debacle

    btw. does a SVG version of the newsletter version exist?

  120. debacle

    pep. here is the newsletter variant, just with the letters in one of the logo colours, to reduce from four to three colours:

  121. debacle

    https://xmpp.debian.org:5281/upload/uJovULQbkgMOaC8h/XMPP_logo_7.svg

  122. debacle

    I hope, that I got the colours right.

  123. debacle

    Fortunately, I'm not a designer. I'm really bad when it comes to aesthetics. I just want a cheap-to-print logo ;-)