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Logo Design

The FOSS4G Asia Local Organizing Committee (BLOC) is pleased to announce a call for logo designs. We need your help to build a strong recognizable logo for FOSS4G Asia 2018.

FOSS4G conference is an international conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial. FOSS4G-Asia 2018 aims to bring researchers, professionals and students together with FOSS4G users and developers worldwide on building and nurturing Asian communities to overcome barriers of technology innovation through open source transformation for sustainable development. FOSS4G-ASIA 2018 Conference will be hosted by Department of Town & Country Planning, University of Moratuwa. Conference committee is looking for a new visual identity, design an eye-catching logo. If you are good at designing a creative, innovative and professional logo, please submit your proposal.

How to enter

Create your logo in PNG file format and a scalable file format (either SVG or PDF).
- If you're not used to scalable formats please still enter the competition as we can try to help.
Anyone willing to show the talent can enter for this contest
Send your design to the LOC via email.

Distribution

The FOSS4G website (www.foss4g.org), flyers, emails, sponsor communications, t-shirts and potentially other conference ‘schwag’ like fabric or plastic bags, keychains, pens etc. Printed material at the conference such as timetable of talks, notebooks, banners and conference guide. Potentially small web-based button images for use on third party websites to promote the conference or fact that someone is speaking there, for placement on blogs and other web pages.

Design

The design MUST

Include elements of the OSGeo / FOSS4G "ribbon" as can be seen in all previous conference logos File:FOSS4G ribbon.pdf
Include themes for Boston
Be easily printable on t-shirts with as few colours as possible (no more than 3). This keeps the cost of printing down.
Be delivered in PNG file format and a scalable format (SVG or PDF).
Not be similar to other mapping conference logos (Where 2.0, ESRI, SOTM...)
Not communicate the brand of potential sponsors or related companies
Not include copyrighted material that is not yours

The design MAY

Come in different sizes (example: a main logo and a variant for use on small print media such as badges).

The design should communicate

Fun
Cool
Openness
A sense of community
The potential of free and open source geospatial tools
A sense of learning and education
Intelligence
Trustworthiness
Global movement

The design should not communicate

Corporate / big business (as the sole element)
Complexity
Expensive
For geeks only
Closed community

Review and Vote on Entries

Please visit the Logo Entries to view the entries and vote for your favorite.

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 * Create your logo in PNG file format and a scalable file format (either SVG or PDF).
 ** If you're not used to scalable formats please still enter the competition as we can try to help.
-* Add a link, or include your logo on the wiki page [[FOSS4G 2017/Logo Entries]].
+* Anyone willing to show the talent can enter for this contest
-* Anyone willing to show the talent
+* Send your design to the LOC via email.
 === Distribution ===
 The FOSS4G website (www.foss4g.org), flyers, emails, sponsor communications, t-shirts and potentially other conference ‘schwag’ like fabric or plastic bags, keychains, pens etc. Printed material at the conference such as timetable of talks, notebooks, banners and conference guide. Potentially small web-based button images for use on third party websites to promote the conference or fact that someone is speaking there, for placement on blogs and other web pages.

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