[KDE-India] A proposal for KDE-India's logo

[Shriramana Sharma]

Namaste group.

Since I signed up to the list only yesterday and am just finishing browsing 
through the list archives, I would like to contribute my thoughts to the 
KDE-India logo ideas:

So far the graphically best and legally least-problematic suggestion seems to 
be that of Vinayak Hegde who at 2006-01-05 17:39 IST wrote:

> How about having three kde gears intertwined (like the top half of
> the olympic rings) with saffron, white and green colours.
> Alternatively we could have the three gears like a planetary gear system
> with the Indian tricolours.

Same day at 17:40 Mahesh Pai wrote:

> I deliberately  us the term  `probably' because if it  really applied,
> sportsmen could not use it on their dresses. 

IIRC there *were* some legal problems as to whether the cricketers using the 
India tricolour was legal and I think they had to get special permission. 
Sorry for being vague but I do remember seeing something related to this in 
the papers, a few months ago.

At 17:43 Atul Chitnis wrote:

> For example the letters KDE, each in a colour of the flag, resting on a 
> large blue gear. Just stay away from anything flag-like.

This is a good suggestion, and Vinayak's suggestion about fits with staying 
away from anything flag-like.

On Jan-07 09:11 Hetul Kothari wrote:

> another idea is also to have KDE written in Sanskrit / Devanagari fonts?
> would give is that special touch...what say?

You mean "ke dii ii"? I always find reading English words/letters written in 
Indian scripts difficult. As I find reading Indian words written in Roman 
script difficult. So I suggest abandoning that and add some motto, perhaps 
from Sanskrit. Since I am reasonably knowledgeable with Sanskrit, I could 
think of something if we have suggestions on the theme that should be 
reflected from the quote. Most Indian organizations have such a Sanskrit 
motto - like "satyam eva jayate", "yogakshemam vahaamyaham" etc.

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