First use of Infinity Logo

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:51:31 -0500
Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 09:49 -0500, Pam Chestek wrote:
> > The Wayback Machine show the first use of the logo online in April,
> > 2006.  Does anyone have any information on the exact date it was
> > published?  Second, does anyone know for sure where our servers
> > were in April, 2006 (or whatever date the logo was first
> > published)?  I have information that the main Fedora server was at
> > Duke, but was moved to Phoenix, and the person didn't know exactly
> > when the servers were moved.
> 
> It was definitely published earlier than that on redhat's
> people.redhat.com server (see
> http://web.archive.org/web/20090131091157/http://people.redhat.com/dfong/fc5graphics/
> dated Dec 6, 2005) and on capstrat.com's servers which archive has
> listed as early as 25 Nov 2005:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20051125211849/http://capstrat.com/development/fedora/index.php?
> 
> However our mailing list archives indicate it was available as early
> as Sept 16, 2005:
> http://osdir.com/ml/linux.redhat.fedora.marketing/2005-09/msg00124.html
> 

A little bit from my own personal timeline.

In August of 2005 I was deciding to transition to a new position at
duke. When I did that it meant fedora.linux.duke.edu (which was
fedoraproject.org for a while) was no longer going to be directly
controllable by someone in the project so we started moving things to
phx. I think Sopwith was settting things up then. It looks the server
transition happened sometime around oct or nov which would be
consistent b/c I got back to work around the end of october. I was on
vacation for a while between then.

In Dec of 2005 Greg Dekoenigsberg asked me to setup a
logo at fedoraproject.org for requests to use the logo.

He said:

" I'm still waiting for lawyer time, and it'll be the new year before
 that happens, realistically -- so here's the usage guidelines: please
 send usage requests to "logo at fedoraproject.org".  Seth, could you set
 that alias up and point it to me?  Thanks.  Once you've done that, I'll
 update the wiki appropriately.
"

So - the timing all seems to say the logo was introduced around the end
of 2005 and was probably in place in NC and in AZ around that time.

Definitely by spring of 2006 it had moved to AZ.

Theoretically our lawyers might have the email from Greg from around
then.

-sv