Mumps logo

Two points:
I'd bet that there was a copyright to the logo at some point, status
now just as fuzzy as the MDC itself; but that was also back before
there was much awareness of copyleft options. I wonder if there is a
way to apply a creative commons license to it at this late date?

Second: This stylized M also predated the internet, www, and easy
computer graphics. It worked well on a magazine cover. But it does not
scale very well. Try resizing it from 160x136 down to 80x or 40x... It
doesn't work as well in the 21st century as it did back in the '80s.

regards all,
jlz


On Jun 12, 7:20 am, Ed de Moel <dem...@jacquardsystems.com> wrote:
> > Ed de Moel, what are your thoughts?
>
> > John Covin
> > former MTA Board member
>
> My recollection is that the MTA granted rights to use the logo for the
> purpose of advanding awareness of the technology.
> Since it looks to me that this is exactly what is going on here,
> it should be OK to use the logo.
>
> Ed de Moel
> (also a former MTA Board member)
>
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JohnLeoZ wrote:


> Second: This stylized M also predated the internet, www, and easy
> computer graphics. It worked well on a magazine cover. But it does not
> scale very well. Try resizing it from 160x136 down to 80x or 40x... It
> doesn't work as well in the 21st century as it did back in the '80s.

The versions I have are GIF formatted at various resolutions.
I guess that if someone really wanted to use the logo, they could invest
the time to create a scalable version using the various samples that are
available on the various M[UMPS] related websites (CAMTA, NEMUG, etc).

Just my $0.02...

Ed


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I attempted to post a message with an attachment, but my ISP didn't
like that...
So I placed a scalable version of the logo at
http://71.174.62.16/demo/MLogo.svg

Enjoy!

Ed

I see the XML, and it makes a nice "M" but I'm sorry that I don't know
how to use this to render a scaled down version, say 200x170 or
100x100?

Thanks,
johnleo

On Jun 13, 4:13 pm, EdM <dem...@jacquardsystems.com> wrote:
> I attempted to post a message with an attachment, but my ISP didn't
> like that...
> So I placed a scalable version of the logo at
> http://71.174.62.16/demo/MLogo.svg
>

On Jun 14, 6:27 am, JohnLeoZ <JohnLeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I see the XML, and it makes a nice "M" but I'm sorry that I don't know
> how to use this to render a scaled down version, say 200x170 or
> 100x100?
>


What a perfect excuse to do this:
http://71.174.62.16/Demo/MLogo

(Ask your browser to show source code to see the details).
Enjoy!

Ed

On Jun 14, 11:17*am, EdM <dem...@jacquardsystems.com> wrote:

[KSB] <...snip...>

> What a perfect excuse to do this:
> * *http://71.174.62.16/Demo/MLogo

[KSB] Ed, it did not work for me (Firefox 3 on Kubuntu Linux 8.04) -
it shows the controls but not the logo. With Konqueror 3.5.9, it
shows the logo but not the controls. With Konqueror 4.0.5 it shows
the controls and a grey area labelled M[UMPS] Logo.

Regards
-- Bhaskar

> [KSB] Ed, it did not work for me (Firefox 3 on Kubuntu Linux 8.04) -
> it shows the controls but not the logo. With Konqueror 3.5.9, it
> shows the logo but not the controls. With Konqueror 4.0.5 it shows
> the controls and a grey area labelled M[UMPS] Logo.
>
Every browser has their quirks...
I now have it working in Firefox, Safari and Internet Exploror.

Hope that pleases more people...

Ed

Bhaskar, According to the source, the page loads its SVG viewer from
Adobe... no linux version.
Ed: Very cool. thanks.
I stand corrected on the scalability of the logo. :-)
jlz

>
> > What a perfect excuse to do this:
> > * *http://71.174.62.16/Demo/MLogo
>
> [KSB] Ed, it did not work for me (Firefox 3 on Kubuntu Linux 8.04) -
> it shows the controls but not the logo. *With Konqueror 3.5.9, it
> shows the logo but not the controls. *With Konqueror 4.0.5 it shows
> the controls and a grey area labelled M[UMPS] Logo.
>

The image source at http://71.174.62.16/image/scratch/MLogo00000189.svg
works under linux Firefox, XP Firefox and Opera, but not Explorer.

And Gimp loads it too. :-)

jlz

On Jun 15, 2:53*pm, JohnLeoZ <JohnLeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The image source athttp://71.174.62.16/image/scratch/MLogo00000189.svg
> works under linux Firefox, XP Firefox and Opera, but not Explorer.
>
> And Gimp loads it too. :-)

[KSB] Great! Thanks, John. Yes browsers other than IE have their own
SVG renderers.

For SVG files, instead of loading into Gimp, consider Inkscape (http://
www.inkscape.org). It's FOSS with binaries available for all popular
platforms and packages for popular Linux distributions. Gimp is more
suited to manipulating photographic images.

Regards
-- Bhaskar