[Battlemesh] designing logo each year VS permanent identity

[Nemesis]

Hey,

it sounds good, at least better than changing everything every year.

My worry came from the fact that I see that the veterans of this
movement are being less and less involved in it, cos they're either
leaving their home country, changing job, having babies, and so on.
I was wondering if in this situation it wouldn't be better to use
voluntary contributions to achieve better results in attracting young
people rather than using those contributions to very short-term goals
that do not give much advantages.

Federico


On 10/05/2014 10:54 PM, Saverio Proto wrote:
> Federico maybe we want to speak again about this for the next year ?
>
> I think it would be nice to have a base logo that can be personalized.
> Or at least stick to some colors.
>
> For example Freifunk has some base colors and some base circle and
> arrows logo, but then everycommunity adds a bit of personalization.
>
> We can try to do something similar ? Look for the many Freifunk logos
> you can find on twitter for the local communities.
>
> ciao,
>
> Saverio
>
>
>
> 2014-02-10 13:14 GMT+01:00 fboehm <fboehm at aon.at>:
>> Am 10.02.14 11:15, schrieb Simon Wunderlich:
>>
>>> Hey Federico,
>>>
>>> just my two cents on the proposal: personally I like the fact that we have
>>> a
>>> different logo every time - it's part of the identity of the battlemesh.
>>> For
>>> the website, we are doing changes each year to fit it to the environment
>>> (travel info, hosting info, agenda etc) so the wiki format is quite good.
>>> It
>>> might not be the most beautiful page on the net, but it's easy for people
>>> to
>>> access and everyone can make changes - we should definitely be able to
>>> keep
>>> that.
>>>
>>> So even if we save the time for the logo, I don't know how much we safe
>>> regarding the website. We can discuss that at the WBM of course, if you
>>> have a
>>> good idea how to pull that - if we find someone who wants to do that for
>>> money
>>> (which is certainly possible), we need to supervise that too and be able
>>> to
>>> make changes on our own in the future. :)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>      Simon
>>>
>>>
>>>> I launch a proposal for the future: is it really worth it to use so much
>>>> time each year designing logos and stuff?
>>>>
>>>> Why don't we crowdfund a cool design (logo & website design) for our
>>>> community and use that as a base for every year?
>>>>
>>>> We could spend more of our free time in promoting the event, organizing
>>>> talks, look for sponsors/funding... we would also subtract any of this
>>>> responsibility from local organizers who can focus on what is most
>>>> important: accommodation, food, logistics, local promotion... let's see
>>>>
>>>> Advantages:
>>>>
>>>>    * clear identity which becomes recognizable
>>>>    * international volunteers can focus on promotion and talks
>>>>    * local volunteers can focus on logistics
>>>>    * professionally designed identity and website is a gain in
>>>> credibility
>>>>
>>>> Disadvantages
>>>>
>>>>    * costs money
>>>>    * no personalized logo based on the city hosting the event
>>>>
>>>> In my opinion, if we could overcome the money issue, we could easily let
>>>> go of personalized logos and colors each year as they don't bring much
>>>> value to the event (in terms of contents and participants) compared to
>>>> the amount of work they require.
>>>>
>>>> Think about it. We could discuss about it at the event if you think it's
>>>> worth it.
>>>>
>>>> Federico
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>> I don't think the website needs to be super sophisticated nor expensive.
>> Just a basic, clean design.
>>
>> Regarding logo I think the more simplistic it is the better it could be
>> adapted to a specific location. Maybe like the following approach but just
>> less complex: http://www.markea1.net/corporate_design/a1_logo_system.html
>>
>> The look and feel of the website could gain a lot of attractiveness by
>> switching from a Wiki backend to a CMS backend. I know this is a big change
>> but the content would still be manageable from different persons or groups.
>>
>> I would be willing to spend most of my time during WBMv7 on this task. But I
>> might need help from somebody that is more experienced in webdesign.
>>
>> For brainstorming on a logo a workshop with more participants would be very
>> helpful.
>>
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