- From: Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 16:07:31 -0500
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Cc: Web Payments CG <public-webpayments@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAKcXiSpe6wRSP6rXbW3xoqXvk+QO15EVzQePVvYZmLoOL3JaCQ@mail.gmail.com>
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/ >> >> > > > -- > Joseph Potvin > Operations Manager | Gestionnaire des opérations > The Opman Company | La compagnie Opman > http://www.projectmanagementhotel.com/projects/opman-portfolio > jpotvin@opman.ca > Mobile: 819-593-5983 > LinkedIn (Google short URL): http://goo.gl/Ssp56 > -- Joseph Potvin Operations Manager | Gestionnaire des opérations The Opman Company | La compagnie Opman http://www.projectmanagementhotel.com/projects/opman-portfolio jpotvin@opman.ca Mobile: 819-593-5983 LinkedIn (Google short URL): http://goo.gl/Ssp56
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