Re: Need Icons for Home Page

Hi Daniel, Ok, let's aim for original icons. It looks like we have two offers (Paul and Simon) to come up with something. In the meantime I can just work with placeholders. The idea of a sub-project sounds great. I do wonder who will organize it though. Cheers, Stew On 2011-01-16, at 9:57 AM, Daniel P. Brown wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 04:35, Simon R Jones <simon.jones@studio24.net> wrote: >> If you can't find any suitable royalty-free icons I'd be happy to get one of my >> designers to mock something up. > > I think we should do our own, not use an out-of-the-box solution. > There's no reason we can't use this as a great way to get the > community involved in the project, as well. If we create a subproject > for PHP design, it would attract less-technical folks who may be quite > creative, and interested in getting their hands into the pot. Plus, > we can release the graphics under the PHP license as well, which means > folks would be free to use them as they wish, which - in turn - means > it helps to spread the word organically. You know --- make them come > to us, not us to them. It would allow us to have an increase in new > ideas and submissions, allowing us to focus on the overall picture > instead of micromanagement of each aspect. > > As far as licensing, anything that's equal in or lesser than the > restrictions imposed by CC BY 3.0[1] is fine. However, I don't think > we'd want to use any form of commercial graphics at any point, even if > they were donated, as there's always some form of catch involved. > Again, we should use the power of the community. So many want to help > and don't know how or think they can --- this is the perfect segue > from "how can I help?" to "that was easy, what other things can I do > to help?" > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > Dedicated Servers, Cloud and Cloud Hybrid Solutions, VPS, Hosting > (866-) 725-4321 > http://www.parasane.net/ > > -- > PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >