Re: Question about the "ada coin"

[dirk@vana.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest)]

Hi Riccardo, all,

>I found the following "ada coin" (that maybe you already know)
>http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-coin.jpg

This is the "Ada coin" picture that was used in 2004 by ACM SIGAda
to produce a large number of "In Strong Typing We Trust" badges.
Those badges have been handed out to participants at the annual SIGAda
and SIGCSE conferences, and various other events.

It is based on a design we made for the Ada-Belgium programming contest
in 2001-2002: <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/contest/>.
Later, it was adapted to include "2005" as well, and to have more of
the appearance of a coin, so it could be made into a badge.

After the SIGAda 2004 conference, I brought a small bag with those
badges back to Europe and have been handing them out at various
Ada-Belgium events and in the Ada Developer Rooms at FOSDEM 2006
and FOSDEM 2009 in Brussels.  By now, I only have a few more left,
and intend to provide them to the (new) speakers at the upcoming 3rd
Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2012 early February.  (BTW, stay tuned
for more info on that soon!)

>I like it and I would like to use it, for example, on the site of a
>project of mine.  However, I was not able to find any information
>about its copyright status.  Is it "public domain"? Has some kind of
>"creative common" license? Is it owned by the RIAA? :-) (I doubt :-)

It has always been our intention (our = Ada-Belgium & ACM SIGAda)
to put no restrictions on the non-commercial use of that image, as
long as it's used to help promote Ada.  So feel free to use it on
Ada-related project sites.

>Moreover, I only found bitmap versions (the above is JPG, but somewhere
>I found also a PNG), does it exist also in vector format (e.g., SVG)?

I can imagine where you found the PNG version... ;-)
The one I used on the draft Ada DevRoom web-page for FOSDEM 2012 (*)
is just a scaled down conversion of the JPG file.

(*) That web-page will be put on-line shortly.

>(Oh, BTW, it will need some updating with "2012")

Yes, indeed.  It's on my "to do" list, unless someone beats me to it.
The idea is to recreate the "Ada coin" picture using a good quality
version of the "Lady Ada" image, add "2012", and then make it available
on the Internet.

But there are some more urgent "Ada tasks" on my list first...

>Thank you
>
>Riccardo

HTH

Dirk
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