Re: [boost] [logo] Boost logo variants for use in unofficial or unreleased boost documentation

Subject: Re: [boost] [logo] Boost logo variants for use in unofficial or unreleased boost documentation
From: Patrick Horgan (phorgan1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-09 04:37:35

Stewart, Robert wrote:
> Patrick Horgan wrote:
>   
>> Stewart, Robert wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Perhaps a good first step, if nothing better appears soon,
>>> is to add "powered by" and "for use with" and use them for
>>> a while as I've described.
>>>       
>> And proposed for?
>>     
>
> I've argued against that one because a proposed library can be rejected or can languish in the queue.  If the library isn't accepted, then the author must take positive action to remove the close association that logo creates, though I admit that logo does not imply acceptance by Boost.
>   
Ok, I've got it, "FOR USE WITH" will be used as the placeholder then.  
Somehow I missed that.

>> o how to make them available.  The "POWERED BY" logo should
>> probably be easily available from www.boost.org.  The others
>> can probably live in the source tree because the people that
>> use them will probably have boost as source
>>     
>
> The original "powered by" should be with the others, but there should be a simply means, from the web site, to grab HTML to embed in a web site plus the logo to copy for inserting into an application or library's documentation.
>   
Or it could be like the W3C icons where they just make the icons 
available for download via a link and it's up to you to come up with 
appropriate html.

Patrick