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  '''The tips of the compass rose have grown out of the outer ring. '''  
 
  '''The tips of the compass rose have grown out of the outer ring. '''  
 
  '''This is to show that OSGeo has grown beýond it's initial scop.'''
 
  '''This is to show that OSGeo has grown beýond it's initial scop.'''
  '''The outer ring is open so that OSGeo can connect with others.'''  
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  '''The outer ring is open so that OSGeo can connect with others.'''
 
 
The general OSGeo tag line is '''"Your Open Source Compass"'''. There are three additional official tag lines for the sponsors reading "Sustaining", "Supporting" and "Associate" plus two special versions for our projects reading "Project" for graduated projects and "Incubation" for projects that are still in incubation. These last versions can only be used by Open Source software projects which have applied for [[Incubation]] or graduated and comply to the OSGeo quality criteria - the OSGeo way of doing Open Source Geospatial.
 

Latest revision as of 08:32, 20 November 2011

Logo in 200 pixels width

The OSGeo Logo was updated in November 2008. Please only use this version.

History

Old OSGeo Logo

The original Logo was created in summer 2006 (see at right) following a call for proposals. We kept it for two years, it appeared on our first conferences, trade fair presences and t-shirts. It is still around in older publications.

2008

The redesigned logo was created in a long process and many discussions over more than a year. Technical reasons like better stichability were the initial reasons to update it but then a professional designer made a few suggestions and we have created a short story around it. Here it goes:

The tips of the compass rose have grown out of the outer ring.  
This is to show that OSGeo has grown beýond it's initial scop.
The outer ring is open so that OSGeo can connect with others.