Re: [ubuntu-marketing] DIY Website Update
This needs some style changes for sure ;-) ... which I'm tackling. As was said at the meeting on Sunday, the new style will more closely resemble that of ubuntu.com, and with it will come some needed changes in layout - including the individual entries on the Get page. ~Dan On 4/2/07, Martin Albisetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As promised, I started loading all the content to the DIY website. I've already gone through the Get section, but for some reason, it doesn't seem to look to organized. http://diy.devubuntu.com/get.php Thoughts? Martin -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing -- :: The Highway to Freedom :: is Now Open for Everyone :: www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
[ubuntu-art] Wanted: artists input on papercdcase.
Hi Alan, What we really need are the raw photo files so we can produce our own version in 600dpi TIFF, but thank you very much for the offer! :) instant update I think I happened upon at least the Circle of Friends photo, which may be all that we really need... It's here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DIYMarketing?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=Ubuntu_6_06_cof.zip yaaay! At one time I scanned in such things from the shipit pack/s - this could be done again - is that what you had in mind? -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- :: The Highway to Freedom :: is Now Open for Everyone :: www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Wanted: artists input on papercdcase.
Hi Nik, Although it isn't exactly the same approach, our LoCo Team has started work on a project to package (and repackage) Ubuntu CDs for distribution to libraries: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OhioTeam/CDdistribution Our plan was to have a decently completed product before widely announcing it to other LoCo Teams and the whole Ubuntu community. Progress has been a bit slow so far (my fault,) so we'd be thrilled to have some additional input. If anybody on the Artwork Team who knows where we can get hi-res source files for the official Ubuntu 6.06 wallets, please let us know! Cheers, ~Dan (meatballhat) For a while now I have been wondering how we can create good quality CD cases without the inherent ( potential waste ) of creating the current Cardboard flyer/folders and with a mechanism to allow us to create new content for the cover ( including such wonderful things as local Ubuntu/Lug contacts ). I am taking a leaf from such classics as PaperCDcase ( http://www.papercdcase.com/ ) and the example video from the Digg article ( http://digg.com/videos/educational/Coolest_Cheapest_and_Practical_CD_Cases_you_ll_even_own_How_to_make_one ). I am not a designer of graphics and art but I can see a opportunity here to create a suitable product which can be printed on two sides of good quality A4 paper and then folded to create the case . Since the artwork can be printed in small scale ( inket / colourlaser ) or large scale ( PDC Copyprint ? ) and then folded as required it seems a better fit to answering the on going presentation requirements. So is there anyone here who can help ? Now yes I understand that this will require work to create the case, but not all things quick and cheap come are easy . I will open a page on the the wiki and post some thoughts on this as a project idea but I wanted to get this a ball rolling. My second thought since posting this was to have very stiff cardboard A4 pages created onto which a small foam dot can be placed to hold the CD. I am fairly sure I have seen this before as an example of mailing and advertising a product but im to old to remember where and when . Cheers Nik Butler Ubuntu-UK -- :: The Highway to Freedom :: is Now Open for Everyone :: www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Tattoos
On 3/12/07, john levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just seen this: Firefox tattoos http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ which strikes me as a cool way to promote things. Any chance of Ubuntu tats? I see prices ranging from $70-$120 per 1000 ;-) http://www.google.com/search?q=temporary+tattoos Looks like the Mozilla folks had 'em at a trade show. Ohio Linux Fest will be sure to have some Ubuntu tattoos, if I have anything to say about it :D Cheers, ~Dan -- :: The Highway to Freedom ::is Now Open for Everyone ::. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ::http://www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-art] Question about
Hi Jordi, This is great news that you and your wife would like to produce some t-shirts. One of the projects we're working on in the Marketing Team aims to address many of the questions you've raised: http://diy.devubuntu.com, https://launchpad.net/spreadubuntu Trademark Policy and adherence to some basic branding guidelines are all that (should) really matter, although I'm personally only aware of how these apply to the Ubuntu brand. If you are concerned about having the blessing of the Xubuntu community, my recommendation would be for Emma to produce some roughs of her designs and then request feedback from the applicable Ubuntu sub-communities: Xubuntu-users, Xubuntu-dev Ubuntu-art, Ubuntu-marketing, etc. We look forward to the results! Cheers, ~Dan Greetings My wife ( Emma Alvarez ) is graphics designer, and has a shop at Cafepress. We are users of Xubuntu OS, and like it very much. She would like to know if she can make 2 t-shirts (one for man, another for woman) in her shop with Xubuntu logo, and the url of Xubuntu (www.xubuntu.org). The idea is to get mutual promotion. By the way, thus we send back the effort to all those people in the GNU have done for people like us. So with their logo and url, they get more promotion and support. We saw there are some t-shirts of Ubuntu in Cafepress, so we suppose she can do it. As a shopkeeper, Cafepress gets most of the money of the sales, as they get the base price. Emma wins a markup over that base price, that she can choose. For example, if an article costs 6 dollars of base price, and we fix the price to 6 dollars, we earn no money. If we set a markup of 8 dollars, we earn 2 dollars. Emma Alvarez would sell, if you like, this t-shirts and Xubuntu articles without earning any money, just for the base price, that goes all to Cafepress. The only purpose is mutual promotion, as we said, not to earn money from Xubuntu. Of course, if it is allowed, it would be nice to add a small markup, for design and maintenance cost. Is there something in the license that forbides doing this? If we can, were can we get the gidelines of colors, logo, fonts, so the project is consistent with Xubuntu artwork? Is this idea welcome to your community? Yours, Jordi R Cardona -- :: The Highway to Freedom ::is Now Open for Everyone ::. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ::http://www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] [ubuntu-art] Question about
Hi Jordi, This is great news that you and your wife would like to produce some t-shirts. One of the projects we're working on in the Marketing Team aims to address many of the questions you've raised: http://diy.devubuntu.com, https://launchpad.net/spreadubuntu Trademark Policy and adherence to some basic branding guidelines are all that (should) really matter, although I'm personally only aware of how these apply to the Ubuntu brand. If you are concerned about having the blessing of the Xubuntu community, my recommendation would be for Emma to produce some roughs of her designs and then request feedback from the applicable Ubuntu sub-communities: Xubuntu-users, Xubuntu-dev Ubuntu-art, Ubuntu-marketing, etc. We look forward to the results! Cheers, ~Dan Greetings My wife ( Emma Alvarez ) is graphics designer, and has a shop at Cafepress. We are users of Xubuntu OS, and like it very much. She would like to know if she can make 2 t-shirts (one for man, another for woman) in her shop with Xubuntu logo, and the url of Xubuntu (www.xubuntu.org). The idea is to get mutual promotion. By the way, thus we send back the effort to all those people in the GNU have done for people like us. So with their logo and url, they get more promotion and support. We saw there are some t-shirts of Ubuntu in Cafepress, so we suppose she can do it. As a shopkeeper, Cafepress gets most of the money of the sales, as they get the base price. Emma wins a markup over that base price, that she can choose. For example, if an article costs 6 dollars of base price, and we fix the price to 6 dollars, we earn no money. If we set a markup of 8 dollars, we earn 2 dollars. Emma Alvarez would sell, if you like, this t-shirts and Xubuntu articles without earning any money, just for the base price, that goes all to Cafepress. The only purpose is mutual promotion, as we said, not to earn money from Xubuntu. Of course, if it is allowed, it would be nice to add a small markup, for design and maintenance cost. Is there something in the license that forbides doing this? If we can, were can we get the gidelines of colors, logo, fonts, so the project is consistent with Xubuntu artwork? Is this idea welcome to your community? Yours, Jordi R Cardona -- :: The Highway to Freedom ::is Now Open for Everyone ::. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ::http://www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
[ubuntu-art] 6.06 wallet source files?
Hello all, The Ohio LoCo Team is working on a repackaging of the Official Ubuntu CDs, primarily for distribution to Ohio's libraries in a more circulation-friendly format. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OhioTeam/CDdistribution https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OhioTeam/CDdistribution/Workbench If anyone is able to help us get the source files for the 6.06 CD wallets - preferably in an open format :) - we'd greatly appreciate it. The files located here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DIYMarketing) have been very useful, but the thing that seems to be missing is the photo with all five peeps looking up at you in free-software-induced bliss. -- anybody got that photo as a hi-res any-format ? Many thanks in advance! ~Dan Buch (meatballhat) -- //The Highway to Freedom //is Now Open for Everyone //- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - //http://www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-marketing] DIY Update
ToDo: - Backend, currently working on that - Print It!, needs finishing on my part - Get It!, needs finishing on my part - Design It!, need to discuss what's going to be on there with Jenda and/or Dan I will get whatever is on my plate finished between today and sunday. regards, Martin For my part, I've got a batch of style tweaks I've been holding back in anticipation of Martin's code. Once I get the all clear from Martin, I'll apply changes, commit to bzr, ftp, etc. Once I'm happy with the look of the thing, I'll check in with Jenda and Martin before a general call for criticism gets posted to ubuntu-marketing :) At worst, there should be a site up by Tuesday morning that is functional (as in PHP/MySQL,) visually engaging (as in CSS + graphics,) and (most importantly) usable. On a side note, I haven't heard anything further from CJA about getting under the official ubuntu domain. Jenda, Corey (Burger) - can either of you confirm this? :) Cheers, ~Dan [meatballhat] -- //The Highway to Freedom //is Now Open for Everyone //- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - //http://www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] diy website update
I love it! I still have my qualm about the brown boxes on the right splitting the headers into two, however; but I think it's great progress anyway. :-) boxes will be changed back to include un-severed headers. Thanks for the feedback! Dan ...want ...more ...feedback -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] diy website update
Swag is good; the icons colour scheme are great - obviously related to the main Ubuntu sites, but a bit friendlier and less formal. I used Tango SVG to make the icons - anybody able to quickly tell me about if/how an attribution should be included? One minor typographical nitpick - in the a collaborative effort tagline, use an emdash (mdash; in HTML) instead of two en-dashes before the phrase. done :-) Also, even on a 1280x024 maximized browser window, the fourth box (get out there!) is mostly off the bottom of the screen - only the top half of the orange icon is visible, none of the text. Could the icons shrink just a bit to move at least some of that text up onto the screen? (I know, this is nitpicky too, and getting everything above the 'fold' might not be possible...) Martin also brought this up - I totally agree. I'll be changing the layout to more of a four quadrants of diy marketing ...(although Jenda claims there are only _three_ ;-) ) Looks great - when is it going live? We're shooting for January 15th, what with all the holiday business happening soon. How does this sound? Too far off? Too ambitious? == call for submissions? == We really need more *good* artwork/materials collected for the launch. Jenda mentioned that the Forum might be a good place to have a dedicated space for discussion, submissions, etc. (and I am in agreement.) Even once DIY is up, we really need to have a place for this process to happen for spreadubuntu.com, so might this be a good time to call for submissions via the Forum? If so, is there any chance this could be put into the UWN? -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] diy website update
Thanks for the feedback Martin! You practically read my mind with the layout of the 4 big links. This will be included in the next revision. As far as the Safari/Konquerer rendering is concerned, I'm fairly certain I know what's causing that - the positioning right now is really just a hacked together replacement of the old design, which was table-based. I'll get to work on fixing that, too. Thanks again, and keep the criticism coming! Cheers, Dan On 12/8/06, Martin Albisetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, a quick hello to all. I've been reading this list for a while but not actually participating. I really like the clean design you've cooked up. The only critisism I have is that I think those 4 main links should be visible at a first glance. Off the top of my head, I might suggest 4 squares, two by two and maybe making the title a bit smaller to fit. Generally ppl don't tend to scroll down until they haven't found what they where looking for. And also a small detail, it doesn't render correctly in konqueror/safari, the Ubuntu and the Ubuntu logo are trademarks of Canonical Inc. :: This website is in no way affiliated with Canonical. gets placed over the get out there option. Keep up the good work. Regards, Martin On 12/8/06, Daniel Buch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, The diy website is ready for another round of criticism: http://diy.devubuntu.com Cheers, Dan -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Better investigating the problems Windows users have with Ubuntu
http://www.openusability.org/ I know KDE has Usability experts on their team (Ellen Reitmayr and others). There was an Ubuntu project listed here awhile back but I didn't see it recently. Thanks for the great link, Belinda! Regardless of how it fits into the Ubuntu project, I'm glad to know of its existence :-D A Usability Team might be a good idea but it would need to integrate with the Art/Marketing/Bug Squad/other Teams to make it an integrated part of the project. For now perhaps getting one or two key/specific areas identified as an Open Usability project might be a good start? Just a thought. I don't really Usability as a Marketing Team task but as part of the overall Development process. I know that in my personal experiences in marketing to friends and family (and strangers, yes) that usability has come up in conversation multiple times. That said, I certainly agree that Usability (with a capital U) is probably not a task for the Marketing Team. What I _do_ think, however, is that gathering knee-jerk reactions from the general public will be of great use to our Marketing efforts (with a capital M.) By this I mean something on the order of a quick survey at the end of a web-based tour, or perhaps a post-LiveCD questionnaire. I'm most interested in what people think when they happen upon Ubuntu for the first time - especially if it's their first time with GNU/LInux. So, I suppose I'm personally leaning toward integrating the usability topic into a more general feedback channel to aid the Marketing Team. Am I the only one? :-D -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
[ubuntu-marketing] diy website progress
The DIY Marketing website is nearing some state of completion - I think we're into Iteration[3] now ;-) http://diy.devubuntu.com Please file grievances to me or Jenda, but mostly to *me* as Jenda's busy taking on his role as a t-shirt vendor :-). The main page needs to be a bit less text heavy, at least upon first glance (ideas?) As there is only the posters section right now, it didn't make much sense (to me) to put larger, prettier links/thumbs dead center. Should there also be a t-shirts section? Fliers, CD holder thingies, temp tattoos, and sugar cookies sections? It should be said that the originally conceived SpreadUbuntu site is also in the works - running on a python CMS, no less: http://orangoo.com/skeletonz/ /* I'd like to remove myself from the bottleneck position as soon as possible ;-) */ Let the criticism begin. Cheers all, Dan Buch (meatballhat) -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] diy website progress
On 11/22/06, Toby Smithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on the DIY site, the links on the right have a brown heading, and a grey-brown box beneath. The edge of this box runs through the heading, which isn't particularly aesthetically pleasing. (Yes, I know I'm nit-picking). The style for the page is a semi-arbitrary mishmosh of stuff found on the main ubuntu site, the wiki, and MenZa's original work. I encourage anybody who'd like to alter styles to take a look at the css file and make recommendations :-) I'm personally more concerned with content and clarity at the moment, but comments about aesthetics are always appreciated. To summarize and respond to another point Toby makes, the DIY site *is* fairly closed, yes. There is no MySQL database in the background, no CMS engine. It was my hope - and I think that I saw Jenda mention this - that the forum and artwork site could be used for most of the discussion, submissions, etc, and that the DIY site could be more of a showcase for the chosen few. Openness is fantastic, yes, but we need to maintain control over the clarity of the site's message - and I admit that the posters page is already a bit crowded :-) Said more briefly: There are already so many dynamic, upload-friendly places for Ubuntu lovers to share content and ideas... can we wait for the SpreadUbuntu site before we start worrying about dynamism and such? If we can't, that's okay... I'd just like it if we can get the DIY site ready to go Active in a relatively short amount of time so that we can redirect focus on resurrecting SpreadUbuntu. How does that page work currently? Who has access to its code, and content? If you're willing to get Bazaar working, you can get my branch here: https://launchpad.net/people/meatballhat/+branch/spreadubuntu/spreadubuntu Like I said - no database under the hood, so all the code's here. On a related note, I threw Jenda's post onto the DIYWebsite page: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/DIYWebsite -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Targeted email, phone, and face-to-face tactics
In response to the recent thread about marketing tactics for Community members, DIYMarketing, etc.: For the sake of other folks like me who have only recently joined up with the Community, what's the fastest and most effective way for an individual to get involved with the SpreadUbuntu project? It seems that Jenda's spec is pretty all-inclusive, and I'd love to see the site up and running. http://doc.ubuntu.com/~marketing/SpreadUbuntu%20Structure%20Proposals/Spreadubuntu-060628-jenda.png I just know that I can't be the only Ubuntu newcomer who's been frustrated by the lack of a single entry point for volunteer marketing. Fishing around through the wiki, mailing list, forum, and IRC channel is just too cumbersome... I found the kitchen. Now where's the food? -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
[ubuntu-marketing] Targeted email, phone, and face-to-face tactics
Most educational institutions, government agencies, and corporations are easily reachable by phone or email, making them a considerably more accessible target than then general public. I say this mostly from experience in working with K-12 and Higher Ed clients to promote various proven teaching technologies. That said, what is the Marketing Team's stance on targeted Email, Phone, and face-to-face contact? Should a spec be written for Ubuntu Marketing Account Executive, including associated specs for Ubuntu Marketing Campaign-in-a-box, Ubuntu Marketing Kit or some such thing? I believe there needs to be a turnkey Ubuntu Advocate solution for all of the folks out there who are nuts about Ubuntu, yet aren't computer gurus (like myself.)(my apologies for cluttering the list if all of this is already in the works) Cheers,Danhttps://launchpad.net/people/meatballhat -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
