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RE: Introducing Lee LeFever of Common Craft

From: Danny Ayers <Danny.Ayers@talis.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:35:00 +0100
Message-ID: <DD5E887552496241BC701548837A282F05A82790@nemo.talis.local>
To: <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, "Ivan Herman" <ivan@w3.org>
Cc: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, "Karen Myers" <karen@w3.org>, "Harry Halpin" <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>, "W3C SWEO IG" <public-sweo-ig@w3.org>

I reckon it'd be wonderful to get some material in this form, seems
perfect for the kind of stuff we deal with.

> > The look cool. But we have to be a little bit careful. 

For sure.

> > I am not sure that would be true outside this circle. Or outright 
> > problematic. For example, we have to check whether some of his 
> > standards hand movements are not offensive in other 
> cultures (he has a 
> > movement he uses for 'good' which made me thinking...)

The horns gesture? Hmm... But the same kind of issues can arise whatever
mode of communication is used. Getting a few eyeballs on any
presentation before it went public should be enough of a safety device.
What kind of checks were made to be sure the cheeky little box in the
new logos couldn't be interpreted as an innuendo of some form..?

> I think we can live with some of these imperfections bearing 
> in mind the overall value of this kind of communication :-)

Well, I'm sure the risk can be minimised. 

Cheers,
Danny.
Received on Thursday, 11 October 2007 16:36:01 GMT

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