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Subject: Unified ODF Icons
Hi all, Following a discussion held last spring, in the 09 March 2009 OpenOffice.org Engineering Steering Committee (ESC) [0], we at OpenOffice.org are introducing a unified set document icons meant to promote the OpenDocument Format (ODF) clearly and memorably, and without regard to vendor or product identity. The argument in the March ESC meeting was for an icon set that raised the awareness of ODF as a format that works across all platforms and implementations. The icons do not promote a vendor's brand but the format's identity--a point that we've long debated here and, if memory serves me right, long wanted. These icons will be used in OOo 3.2 as well as in the next release of StarOffice. But they are not specific to those products nor limited to them. Rather, they are free to be used by all other implementations, as they are not vendor specific and do not make any claim about vendor identity. We also recognize that they are a work in progress, open and free of encumbrances, and so I am asking the TC members here (and in other relevant OASIS TCs) to examine them, discuss them, work on them, and if needed, improve them. These icons are meant to promote the ODF, not a vendor's product. They are thus in keeping with our stated goal here. Because the icons are not particular to any implementation but general to all, they can be found at the ODF Toolkit Union [1], and discussions related to the icons, as well as work, can reasonably be held there. Of course, discussions related to them can be held here, too. As well, I'm attaching a picture of them here:
Cheers, Louis [0] <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ESC_meeting_minutes_20090309#proposal_for_unified_ODF_Document_icons > [1] <http://odftoolkit.org/projects/odftoolkit/pages/ODF-Icons> -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. OpenOffice.org
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