^{This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website}

FOTW Officers Flag

When Giuseppi Bottasini stepped down as director Mark Sensen proposed that a director's flag be devised to thank him. From that start, a series of officers' flags were soon developed:

Director's flag
Vice (assistant) director's flag
Editor's flag
Listmaster's flag
Keyword co-ordinator's flag
Map editor's flag
Giffer's flags

Director's flag

Flag for former director, Giuseppe Bottasini

by Mark Sensen

This proposal is based on the FOTW flag, but square with white and blue bands equal, a yellow border all around and small yellow border within the white and blue. In the upper part of the white band his initials "GB" in black.
Mark Sensen, 23 July 1997

The idea was that each of the positions would have an "emeritus" personal flag that would be the same as the official flag for the office held defaced with some personal emblem of owner's choice.
Željko Heimer, 27 July 2004

Flag for current director

by Mark Sensen

I also made a design for our new "president": like the latter, but proportions 2:3, bigger stars and without initials.
Mark Sensen, 23 July 1997

Vice (assistant) director's flag

by Mark Sensen

I had some other designs in mind; for our Vice-director like the proposal for Giuseppe's flag, but without initials and without the outer border.
Mark Sensen, 27 July 1997

Editor's flag

by Mark Sensen

For the editors almost the same but the "inner border" counterchanged blue and white.
Mark Sensen, 27 July 1997

Listmaster's flags

Listmaster Emeritus

by António Martins-Tuválkin

I am not quite sure, but I think that in the end, the listmaster's flag was made same as the director's, but with the red double border instead of the yellow.
Željko Heimer, 27 July 2004

Listmaster's flag

by António Martins-Tuválkin

Red for blood, of course... ;-E
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 July 2004

Assistant Listmaster's flag

by António Martins-Tuválkin

Keyword co-ordinator's flag

by António Martins-Tuválkin

This is the personal rank flag for the Keyword Coordinator, an office held by Ole Andersen at the time (not terribly official, but check ed-keywd.html). Devised 23 December 1999.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 July 2004

Map editor's flag

by António Martins-Tuválkin

I made another such flag, for the Clickable Maps Coordinator (myself), using the standard colors of FotW maps.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 July 2004

Giffer's flags

"Giffers" are the artists on FOTW who draw the flags, usually making 'gif' files as a result. There is no known connection to the Swiss commune of the same name.

The giffer's flag is still under consideration. Some suggestions are:

images by Clay Moss, 6 September 2014, Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 10 April 2015

It appears in looking at all of the editorial variant flags that the green squared inner outline version has not yet been claimed. So, I present it on behalf of all of our giffing community.
Clay Moss, 6 September 2014

I redrew this one with the templates from the emeritus designs: Slightly different shades and different width of border. I then did the thing again with the green against the blue, rather than against the white, but that has its own drawbacks. I don't know. In the one you have a lighter colour on a white field and a darker colour on the blue. On the other the lightest two colours of the border meet, and the darkest two meet. Neither seems ideal. Which scheme do we take, or is there an even better approach?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 10 April 2015