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Logo purpose & policies

From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:19:02 +0200
Message-ID: <1f2ed5cd0710170819j4a078500gbbe7e227993ceb72@mail.gmail.com>
To: ij@w3.org, public-sweo-ig@w3.org

Quick question: is the new logo intended to signify A. "The Semantic
Web" or B. "The W3C's Semantic Web Initiative"?

A supplementary question might be if there is such a thing as A
without B, but I suspect that question is best swept under the carpet,
despite the W3C's considerable work on A. The Consortium is sometimes
perceived as imposing technologies in a top-down fashion (e.g. the
popular misunderstandings around ontologies), and not all its
activities are universally welcomed (e.g. WS-*). So I believe it would
be advantageous to be able to *present* A without any explicit
dependency on B. (Curiously a lot of folks critical of the W3C are
still happy to use W3C-maintained specs...)

For this reason, I'd favour having two distinct policies for logo use:
one for material produced by W3C groups (probably always including the
W3C text, at least for now), another for developers at large (use as
you see fit).

Cheers,
Danny.

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