>>> On 2/2/2011 at 02:56 PM, in message <201102022256.43382.jospoortvl...@gmail.com>, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 February 2011 21:17:58 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: >> A couple of weeks ago, I made plans to personally order some stickers to >> attach to our Promo DVDs at the upcoming SCALE conference in Los >> Angeles. The event is 2 weeks prior to the release of 11.4. >> >> The focus of the sticker was clearly to provide an upgrade path for >> receivers of the promo DVD at SCALE. >> >> As I mentioned it to Manu, he offered to join in with me and design the >> label, which I gladly accepted his offer because I like seeing people >> jump in to help. We discussed it openly in the IRC channel and then >> other people saw and joined in. >> >> Unfortunately, for me, the discussion quickly changed to a very >> different focus and I'm having a bit of a difficult time justifying >> paying for the sticker in its present design, which is co-designed by >> Manu and Carlos.
I really like the design. Very clean. Good job guys! >> >> Don't get me wrong, I think it is a very beautiful design, but it has a >> serious redundancy issue. In the sticker, I had wanted to point to >> http://en.opensuse.org//SDB:System_upgrade. Sure its an ugly URL but at >> least it got the users to the right place. Howeever, the discussion >> shifted to changing the URL to www.opensuse.org. My problem with this >> is that it is redundant because that URL is already on the DVD cover >> itself, plus it is on many other materials we will give out. And the >> focus changed also from experienced users to n00b users, which is not >> our primary audience. >> >> So, I would really like to rediscuss this label before I send it to the >> printers ASAP. I am honestly not comfortable paying for stickers that >> say what is already said elsewhere. Any thoughts, folks? >> >> Here's the sticker design by Carlos and Manu: >> http://en.opensuse.org/File:Card17CR.png > > I like the sticker but wonder where this was discussed, IRC I guess? Ok, my > opinion for this would be simply - if this was meant to lead people to a > site > where they can upgrade from 11.3 to 11.4 (and I understand the need for that > > as SCALE is shortly before the 11.4 release so this is actually a brilliant > idea) then the right link should be on there... Without it and having ppl go > > to opensuse.org to upgrade, well, they'll probably download a new DVD which > is > really a huge waste of our 11.3 one ;-) I agree that the URL pointing to upgrade is long and ugly, but it is readable and easily keyed into a browser. +1 due to the functional purpose of the upgrade URL. > >> Thanks, >> Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org
