On Wednesday 17 Nov 2010 11:48:28 Bernhard Dippold wrote: > Hi Ismaël, all > > Ismaël Grammenidis schrieb: > > Hi everyone, > > > > For general purposes concerning artwork/design etc. this is a good idea. > > The problem is that this list will probably be loaded with many topics, > > from splash screens to icons and wallpapers... > > > > That is why I would like to suggest to create a sublist specifically for > > the LibreOffice brand (like discussion about the logo and creating > > consistent guidelines). This to avoid having 100 mails every day with > > topics that are perhaps not interesting to the subscriber. > > I don't think that the number of postings there will be so high, but > even 20 or 30 mails are quite a lot. > > My problem with more different mailing lists is that many topics are > related to more than one of them. Most artwork has to follow the > branding and visual design guidelines, but will influence branding in a > more subtle way. > > Icons are clearly related to branding as well as to visual design and > UX, and imagine someone contributing a proposal for a logo update: With > different lists it will become hard to find the right way. > > > That list (branding) alone will > > probably produce a lot of topics, so I think it would be better not to > > merge it together with the design mailinglist. > > You're right - at least until we defined the initial and community > branding design. > > I think at this time other discussions will step back a bit, because > most of them will have to depend on the branding results. > > To differentiate between the topics I'd keep on using [TAGs], that can > be added even inside a thread if it relates to another area of interest. > > Even if the OP or the first repliers forget to add the tag, it will > probably be done on one of the following mails, informing list readers > specialized on a sub-area to read the thread... > > I know that this is not optimal, but I'd rather like to start this way. > > > So brand...@libreoffice.org would be good to, or evern more specific: > > brandm...@libreoffice.org / trademark > > This is a really different focus - and if you define branding as the > definition basis for the design, combining it with trademark is really > reasonable. > > I don't know if some of the trademark postings need to stay confidential > - OOo used to have a private list for this topic - if not, this might be > an interesting idea. > > But even in this case I'd try to keep design topics off this list, but > on des...@libo. > > Best regards > > Bernhard > > > With kind regards, > > Ismaël Grammenidis
I'm with Bernhard on this, the total mail volume for Branding, UX, Art. Trademark is a different beast. Trying to get some consistency across brand look and feel, and promo art would be enhanced by using a single list and avoid fragmentation and constant cross posting which was a problem on the OOo lists. Cheers GL -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Open Technologies) www.theingots.org -- E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
