[okfn-discuss] New flyer for OKF

Tue Mar 22 17:40:37 UTC 2011

Hi all,

I was sitting (sans wifi) on the train earlier trying to think about
how we could really simplify, boil down and crystallise what the OKF
is about. I wanted to do this so that it is easier to explain to
people what we're about - and to give us focus in what we are doing.
The one sentence pitch!

I concluded that there is not much that we do that can't - broadly
speaking - be lumped under either:

  * 'tools' (CKAN, Public Domain Works, Annotator, Open Literature...)
  * or 'community' (events, competitions, hackdays, IRC, mailing
lists, working groups, blog, annotation sprints, etc).

And the *main* motivating idea is the 'ecosystem' or 'commons' of
information/content/data/knowledge.

Hence: "We work to build tools and communities around an open
knowledge commons that everyone is free to use, enjoy and share."

Then I tried to capture these two main ideas in logos for 'tools' and
'communities' based on the colourful bubbles that seems to be becoming
our house style. I created a basic flyer out of this:

Front: http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5550671746/
Back: http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5550671744/

Second (slightly more crowded) alternative for front:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5550734094/

I'd like to get something like this printed out as a nice double-sided
square flyer ASAP. The 'Please Share Me' refers to both open knowledge
- and to the physical flyer, which I intend to leave in relevant
places on my travels (on noticeboards, in hacker spaces, etc).

What do people think? Good, bad, ugly? ;-)

J.

-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
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