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Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 22:42:23 +0200
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] New logo and website design?
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Carlo,

> Also the mountains/alps in our logo (and our header image) how do they
> relate to our project?
Well, could this be because the project is called _Alpine_ Linux !? ;-)

As can be learned from the last paragraph at {1}, the name Alpine was
derived from "A Linux Powered Integrated Network Engine". There is
certainly some sort of relation between the product and alps, since
mountains are associated with being as durable a barrier as a firewall
should be. While keeping valleys apart, mountains offer connecting
infrastructure in the form of paths and passes, just like Alpine Linux
does by separating and deliberately connecting WAN and LAN.

Apart from that: Every child needs a name.

> Maybe I'm the only one, but i still like our current logo a lot, even if
> it has been designed in a rush.
I personally favour the new concept.

> PS ive seen projects that change colors when browsing to other parts of
> the site, and i didn't like it.
Certainly, this is a matter of how it is implemented. It is quite common
for commercial products to use colours to group the different types of a
product, e.g. the standard and the pro edition of any software. This
helps the customer to easily remember and recognize the type of product
he/she is used to buy, while the basic designs of all products of the
brand stay the same. For instance, the O'Reilly Media {2} publishing
company uses differently coloured banners for each scientific field they
publish books in, while the overall look of their books is (mostly)
identical.

In the case of Alpine Linux it would require quite some effort to
implement the use of different colour schemes in that way, because all
products are offered on the same web page and each reference to any
product type would have to be modified to the appropriate colour scheme.
On the other hand, the project home page, the wiki and the bug tracker
are separate software, that could independently be set-up with different
colour schemes as long as the overall look stays the same and visitors
perceive the different sections as being part of one whole website.

Just My 2c, Tiger

{1} http://alpinelinux.org/about
{2} http://www.oreilly.com/


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