The idFORGE Framework
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The idFORGE Framework exists to improve the visual recognition of your organization. It provides standard procedures to rebuild the visual identity manual of a particular organization and the files necessary for its implementation, using customized visual styles. In this context, the organization publishes the source files describing its visual identity and allows others (e.g., you) to provide visual styles to customize it.
The idFORGE Framework results useful for organizations and projects that need to "refresh" their visual style within frequent periods of time (e.g., every two years approximately) without altering their visual identity structure. For example, whenever the CentOS Project (the organization) releases a new major release of CentOS GNU/Linux distribution (visual manifestation) it must have a new image (visual style) to differentiate it from other major releases of the same visual manifestation. This major change of image demands the CentOS Project to propagate the new visual style to dependent visual manifestation (e.g., web sites, documentation, promotion stuff, etc.) so they can be all recognized as a single visual unit. This visual consistency renders a huge impact in the way the organization presents itself both internally and externally; so it is the mission and vision that motivates idFORGE Framework development.
NOTE: The visual identity manual is a normative document
describing key concepts about the organization so it can be better
recognized in an specific environment or market. In the visual
identity manual the organization describes its goals, principles,
history, strategies, visual structure, branding, and visual
manifestations where it shows its existence on. This information
emerges naturally from the heart of the organization (i.e., the
people), no matter if the organization takes or not control over
it.
NOTE: The visual identity manual isn't a conclusive document. It
reflects the organization existence in a specific point of time so
it must be updated frequently to introduce the organization's
recent changes so it can be effectively used as reference by other
organization (or manufacturers) to produce visual manifestations
exactly as it describes.
The idFORGE Framework documentation is available for reading using on-line manual pages. To start reading, type the following command:
man idforge
The packages you need to install the idFORGE Framework are available to download from the following location:
http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Framework
The idFORGE Framework is an effort inside The CentOS Project community. Most discussions take place in the CentOS Developers mailing list [email protected].
- Alain Reguera Delgado [email protected], 2009-2015.
Copyright © 2015 The CentOS Artwork SIG
idFORGE Framework comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of idFORGE Framework under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.