Re: Website changes - new logo, W3C branding issue

A couple of possible logo options posted at:
https://github.com/web-payments/web-payments.org/issues/12


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca> wrote:

> (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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