First use of Infinity Logo

[Pam Chestek]

On 2/9/2012 11:17 AM, seth vidal wrote:
> 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
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Great, thanks, that's very helpful. 

Pam