Re: Need Icons for Home Page

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 18:57, Daniel P. Brown <daniel.brown@parasane.net> 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. I love the idea, but I fear it may be to hard to implement, plus the actual time for it. I would love some ideas from Simons guys - if not for nothing else then just to see what they can come up with. Who knows, maybe we can get random icons for warnings/notices and stuff in the manual, and upgrade the note editing icons etc etc etc.. ouh ouh! And download icons, and manual download icons and.. and icons icons icons... Err. Must..Stop...Typing.. > >    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?" CC BY will probably cause us problem too... So, lets take that debate after we find something. We obviously give credit where credit is due (just look at the sidebar at http://php.net/download-logos.php) - but annoying licenses from other parties are not cool. -Hannes