Just following up on this. I can work on the button but need to know if the text on the original PNG is the final copy.
Thanks, Christian On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt <christianm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all > > I agree we should have a larger donate button. Happy to mock that up. > Sean, do you have any copy I could use? I imagine it would be pretty > minimal... > > As far as using git, I agree that would make a lot of sense! I say > let's do it. Bernie, would you mind putting together some basic > instructions for me so I can continue to update the site? > > Finally, I am definitely excited to hear about the site assessment and > to take on a long overdue design/content update! Let's talk once the > findings come in. > > Happy holidays everyone! > > > Christian > > Sent from my Windows Phone From: Sean DALY > Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 1:17 PM > To: Sugar Labs Marketing; anything > Cc: Bernie Innocenti; Matt Lee; Christian Marc Schmidt; Walter Bender; > Gary C Martin > Subject: Re: [Marketing] Donate button > I agree that donations should be encouraged... sometimes > "microdonations" turn into "macrodonations" as OLPC France happily > discovered last week. > > However, the button will need some work to be "Sugarized" with our > font (VAG Rounded Light) and colors. > > I think a small banner format like the 120x90 ad we did on FOSS sites > a year ago through Ad Bard would work better (attached) > > Christian, have you had a chance to consider Bernie's proposal > concerning the static intro site and git? On topic as well, the MIT > Sloan students are winding up their marketing study in a couple of > weeks and they have given an initial briefing concerning our > website(s). Which I missed unfortunately, but John Tierney rebriefed > me. We may want to start thinking about a revamp in that context. > > thanks > > Sean > > > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 12:09 -0500, Luke Faraone wrote: >>> > On 12/30/2010 12:00 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >>> > > Matt from the Free Software Foundation noted that we don't even have a >>> > > donate button on our web site. He designed a banner for the large >>> > > black >>> > > empty area on the front page. >>> > > >>> > > Unless someone is opposed, I could do the work to put it online, and >>> > > also convert the website to a git repository, as was discussed some >>> > > time >>> > > ago. >>> > >>> > +1 to both. Is the banner available as a SVG? >>> >>> Matt, is it? >>> >> >> We have a small donate link on the homepage and on the wiki... but a nice >> big one would be good. I'd opt for something using the standard Sugar >> font/schema. >> >> -walter >>> >>> -- >>> // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ >>> \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Marketing mailing list >>> Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing >> >> >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Marketing mailing list >> Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing >> >> > -- anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com 917/ 575 0013 http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmarcschmidt http://twitter.com/cms_ _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing