Re: Website changes - new logo, W3C branding issue

(a) Are the W3C comms people okay with "preliminary draft proposal for a
standard" ?

(b) Huh? A pig? Is there some metaphorical connection?  Not Orwell's Animal
Farm surely :-)
How about using (directly or in some graphically-enhanced variant) the
international standard generic symbol for currency:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_%28typography%29
...it's even got an ascii symbol: *¤*

Joseph Potvin


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> There have been two quick changes to the website this morning.
>
> The first was a result of being contacted by the W3C communications team
> regarding the use of the word 'standard' on the web-payments.org
> website. Since this group is currently not a Working Group, they were
> uneasy with the use of the word because it seemed to imply backing by
> W3C membership, which we don't have yet (but may have after the
> workshop(s) this year).
>
> To be clear, nothing has changed with what we're working on here... just
> the messaging to the public at large. The expectation is that the
> technologies we work on here will be standards eventually, but calling
> them that before there is a WG assigned is premature as far as W3C is
> concerned. The discussion was friendly, and we're going to continue
> talking about the language and messaging around the work we're doing
> here. The word 'standards' has been replaced with 'technologies' for the
> time being, until something better is chosen. So if anyone has a better
> idea about what else we could use in its place, please speak up.
>
> The second change is that we have a new logo for the group, which you'll
> see at the top-left of the website here:
>
> https://web-payments.org/
>
> The SVG of the logo can be found here:
>
> https://web-payments.org/images/logo.svg
>
> Feel free to submit different logos if you don't like it. We didn't have
> one, so I just put one together really quickly.
>
> -- manu
>
> --
> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: The Worlds First Web Payments Workshop
> http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/
>
>


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