Unified ODF Icons

[Louis Suarez-Potts <Louis.Suarez-Potts@Sun.COM>]

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 
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[1] <http://odftoolkit.org/projects/odftoolkit/pages/ODF-Icons>


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Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD
Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
OpenOffice.org