Subject: Re: RE: [ESP] Name, goals and logo

From: "Eric Marshall" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:16:20 -0400

Regarding issues of color-blindness, take a look at the clever web page http://
www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckImage.php ; they transform your image into what the 
color-blind would see. They also have a page to do the same for web pages.

Attached are two logos which are color-blind friendly and less horizonal.

Eric

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----- Original Message -----
From: "K. A. Bouton" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 5:39 am
Subject: RE: [ESP] Name, goals and logo

> Wow - impressed at th espeed with which you got this out!
> 
> Just a note.
> Green (then red) is the color most not seen by color-blind people. 
> Anyway I
> remember a big CLIVAR fight over green/red logos...
> 
> Katherine
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]] On 
> > Behalf Of Roland Schweitzer
> > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 5:09 PM
> > To: [email-masked]
> > Subject: [ESP] Name, goals and logo
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Folks,
> > 
> > Rather than wait for the wheels to turn to produce a 
> > brilliant mission 
> > statement with precise goals and a new name I decided to 
> > metaphorically 
> > put pen to paper and create a logo which contains my suggestion 
> for a 
> > new name for the group.  The attached PDF is the result.
> > 
> > N.B. The logo attempts to symbolized the key components of  
> > 1) data on 
> > and about the earth (with no specific references to particular 
> > continents or countries) and 2) cooperation (both via computer 
> and by 
> > humans) symbolically linked across the logo.  The suggested 
> > name has the 
> > old name embedded within it, but is different enough (I hope) 
> > to avoid 
> > confusion with the popular NASA project.
> > 
> > There are three "logos".  One plain, one with a "tag line" 
> > and one small 
> > "brand" for placing on participant web pages where appropriate.
> > 
> > Should in its wisdom (or dare I say lack there of) the collective 
> > decides to go in a different direction, I will happily use 
> > what meager 
> > skill I have to create a logo to match the final decision.
> > 
> > Roland
> > 
> 
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From: "K. A. Bouton" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:44:59 +0100

Good site - will have to bookmark it.

And logos are nice - I vote for #2 - easy to fit triangles into all sorts of
corners

Katherine

> From: Eric Marshall [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 6:16 PM
> To: K. A. Bouton
> Cc: 'Roland Schweitzer'; [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: RE: [ESP] Name, goals and logo
> 
> 
> The opinions expressed in this message are my own and do not 
> necessarily reflect those of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics 
> Laboratory, Raytheon, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
> Administration, nor the U. S. Department of Commerce.
> 
>

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From: "K. A. Bouton" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:10:39 +0100

Now that we have a name - we can begin...

I have made the initial implementation of the model metadata schema as
presented at the ESP meeting available online via a link on the ESPwiki
http://ndg.nerc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/my-kwiki/index.cgi?ModelMetadataDefinitions or
my www page http://ugamp.nerc.ac.uk/bouton/model_metadata/index.php

>From this page you can
Read the theory
View the DRAFT proposed xml
See a database implementation of the xml
Try a prototype GUI to input metadata

Note - all of these are works in progress so may be broken at any time.

Where we need to go
Well - a lot further, but let's can begin by
1. examining and further defining the numerical properties (See
EarleyComp->NumericalProperties of
http://ugamp.nerc.ac.uk/bouton/model_metadata/xml/earleycomp.xml)
 How do we define horizontal, vertical and time.  GFDL in particular has
agreed to begin their work here

2. Same for input and output, and managing change

3. Try out what we have on some examples - ie the IPCC runs coming up in
September. CGAM and PCMDI will be looking into this.

4. Start to examine and develop the hierarchy for paramter types/names using
CF and othre sources where we can

Katherine

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