Re: Logo purpose & policies

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:19 +0200, Danny Ayers wrote:

Hi Danny,

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

The goal of the logos is to help promote the Semantic Web,
and to promote W3C as the place where the core standards for
the Semantic Web are developed. It is thus our goal to keep
"Semantic Web" associated with "W3C".
> 
> 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).

Thank you for the suggestion; I'm working with the Comm Team
on the policy questions and hope to have a proposal back to 
the community this week.

 _ Ian

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