Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
I think the images i sent must have been screwed up by my mail app (they were two different sizes) Let me know if one of these are big enough. I'll work on something smaller for the website and send it later on. Robin http://imagebin.org/251225 http://imagebin.org/251226 On 21 Mar 2013, at 22:21, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: Here is some artwork from a OS-Tan Logo originally for Linux, but with some changes, I have modified the colors and peaks of the bird to be more gull like. with the AOO colors. http://imagebin.org/251048 I might do a different one with a white coat and helmet and blue edge. On 3/20/13, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On 3/6/13, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote: I'll probably find the time to make a logo. I've seen the official logo for 2013. Is there any other source of inspiration or any suggestions anyone has? You can see the artwork I did from both here: http://imagebin.org/251039 http://imagebin.org/251040 http://imagebin.org/251041 I like the 251039 one best. I'll put that in the blog post also. The OS-Tan one, I don't see the connection. Was the idea that the insignia on the shoulder would be gulls? Or the pen is mighter than the sword? It has potential. Well is more of a character, the idea is to have an AOO like, here is the profile of the different distros OS-Tan (Linux-Tan) http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs7/i/2005/262/3/c/Linux_tan___Lineart_by_juzo_kun.jpg Ah, OK. I was not familiar with this whole area of Japanese pop art. It looks interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_anthropomorphism The idea is to have an AOO-Tan, and that could be an initial shot to have one (http://imagebin.org/251156). I could put the gull logo on the shoulder. Then again is pretty lousy since is a clone of the Linux-Tan best to have one drawn from scratch. Is there a general open source-tan? It might make sense to base it on that. But AOO is more than just Linux. Maybe having a native-american based drawing with some gull feathers. That would be interesting as well, since other Apache projects could inherit from the same base Apache-tan. -Rob -Rob Regards, Robin On 6 Mar 2013, at 17:59, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and interoperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part of DFD since it first started in 2008. Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard, and at Plugfests improving interoperability. I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can do something similar do what we did for International Mother Language Day: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly a million people when we do this, so it is very effective. To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th: Time is running out if we want to do something. 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic. a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here: http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px. d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in future years as well. Anyone feel inspired to create an AOO/DFD logo for the website? 2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is Sunshine Week in the US, and is focused on open government (http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up something that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps promote open government. I am currently working on a blog post for DFD. 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day. I've created a placeholder for a landing page that can be shared via Facebook/Twitter/Google+. This is based on the work Samer did for the download page. It has no content, and I probably introduced some bugs. But it is full of potential ! http://www.openoffice.org/social/dfd.html Anyone interested in helping? Again, time is running short if we want to do something for Document Freedom Day. Regards, -Rob Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:
Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
Ok here's the smaller logo, 100px high. http://imagebin.org/251283 Robin On 22 Mar 2013, at 11:17, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote: I think the images i sent must have been screwed up by my mail app (they were two different sizes) Let me know if one of these are big enough. I'll work on something smaller for the website and send it later on. Robin http://imagebin.org/251225 http://imagebin.org/251226 On 21 Mar 2013, at 22:21, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: Here is some artwork from a OS-Tan Logo originally for Linux, but with some changes, I have modified the colors and peaks of the bird to be more gull like. with the AOO colors. http://imagebin.org/251048 I might do a different one with a white coat and helmet and blue edge. On 3/20/13, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On 3/6/13, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote: I'll probably find the time to make a logo. I've seen the official logo for 2013. Is there any other source of inspiration or any suggestions anyone has? You can see the artwork I did from both here: http://imagebin.org/251039 http://imagebin.org/251040 http://imagebin.org/251041 I like the 251039 one best. I'll put that in the blog post also. The OS-Tan one, I don't see the connection. Was the idea that the insignia on the shoulder would be gulls? Or the pen is mighter than the sword? It has potential. Well is more of a character, the idea is to have an AOO like, here is the profile of the different distros OS-Tan (Linux-Tan) http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs7/i/2005/262/3/c/Linux_tan___Lineart_by_juzo_kun.jpg Ah, OK. I was not familiar with this whole area of Japanese pop art. It looks interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_anthropomorphism The idea is to have an AOO-Tan, and that could be an initial shot to have one (http://imagebin.org/251156). I could put the gull logo on the shoulder. Then again is pretty lousy since is a clone of the Linux-Tan best to have one drawn from scratch. Is there a general open source-tan? It might make sense to base it on that. But AOO is more than just Linux. Maybe having a native-american based drawing with some gull feathers. That would be interesting as well, since other Apache projects could inherit from the same base Apache-tan. -Rob -Rob Regards, Robin On 6 Mar 2013, at 17:59, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and interoperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part of DFD since it first started in 2008. Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard, and at Plugfests improving interoperability. I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can do something similar do what we did for International Mother Language Day: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly a million people when we do this, so it is very effective. To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th: Time is running out if we want to do something. 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic. a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here: http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px. d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in future years as well. Anyone feel inspired to create an AOO/DFD logo for the website? 2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is Sunshine Week in the US, and is focused on open government (http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up something that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps promote open government. I am currently working on a blog post for DFD. 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day. I've created a placeholder for a landing page that can be shared via Facebook/Twitter/Google+. This is based on the work Samer did for the download page. It has no content, and I probably introduced some bugs. But it is full of potential ! http://www.openoffice.org/social/dfd.html Anyone interested in helping? Again, time is running short if we want to do something for Document Freedom Day. Regards, -Rob Regards, -Rob
Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote: Ok here's the smaller logo, 100px high. http://imagebin.org/251283 Excellent! I think we have what we need now. I'll publish the blog post and update the website this afternoon. I'll put the larger version of the logo out on our Pinterest account as well. Thanks! -Rob Robin On 22 Mar 2013, at 11:17, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote: I think the images i sent must have been screwed up by my mail app (they were two different sizes) Let me know if one of these are big enough. I'll work on something smaller for the website and send it later on. Robin http://imagebin.org/251225 http://imagebin.org/251226 On 21 Mar 2013, at 22:21, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: Here is some artwork from a OS-Tan Logo originally for Linux, but with some changes, I have modified the colors and peaks of the bird to be more gull like. with the AOO colors. http://imagebin.org/251048 I might do a different one with a white coat and helmet and blue edge. On 3/20/13, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On 3/6/13, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote: I'll probably find the time to make a logo. I've seen the official logo for 2013. Is there any other source of inspiration or any suggestions anyone has? You can see the artwork I did from both here: http://imagebin.org/251039 http://imagebin.org/251040 http://imagebin.org/251041 I like the 251039 one best. I'll put that in the blog post also. The OS-Tan one, I don't see the connection. Was the idea that the insignia on the shoulder would be gulls? Or the pen is mighter than the sword? It has potential. Well is more of a character, the idea is to have an AOO like, here is the profile of the different distros OS-Tan (Linux-Tan) http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs7/i/2005/262/3/c/Linux_tan___Lineart_by_juzo_kun.jpg Ah, OK. I was not familiar with this whole area of Japanese pop art. It looks interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_anthropomorphism The idea is to have an AOO-Tan, and that could be an initial shot to have one (http://imagebin.org/251156). I could put the gull logo on the shoulder. Then again is pretty lousy since is a clone of the Linux-Tan best to have one drawn from scratch. Is there a general open source-tan? It might make sense to base it on that. But AOO is more than just Linux. Maybe having a native-american based drawing with some gull feathers. That would be interesting as well, since other Apache projects could inherit from the same base Apache-tan. -Rob -Rob Regards, Robin On 6 Mar 2013, at 17:59, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and interoperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part of DFD since it first started in 2008. Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard, and at Plugfests improving interoperability. I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can do something similar do what we did for International Mother Language Day: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly a million people when we do this, so it is very effective. To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th: Time is running out if we want to do something. 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic. a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here: http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px. d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in future years as well. Anyone feel inspired to create an AOO/DFD logo for the website? 2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is Sunshine Week in the US, and is focused on open government (http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up something that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps promote open government. I am currently working on a blog post for DFD. 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day. I've created a placeholder for a landing page that can be shared via Facebook/Twitter/Google+. This is based on the work Samer did for the download page. It has no content, and I probably introduced some bugs. But it is full of potential
Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
Sorry for taking so long, unfortunately I've not had much time recently. I've come up with a logo, it's still quite rough but might be better than nothing. It doesn't have a transparent background because it's not straight forward with the shadow of the OO logo. (May I say it's a bit problematic having two different background colours. Especially when dealing with images that we have no access to layers.) Anyway, you may well prefer to use one of the other logos available, and that's fine.RobinOn 6 Mar 2013, at 20:07, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote:I'll probably find the time to make a logo. I've seen the official logo for 2013. Is there any other source of inspiration or any suggestions anyone has?The ODF Community Logo might be another source of ideas:http://opendocument.xml.org/wiki/odf-community-logoODF is the Open Document Format standard, which OpenOffice supports.So there is a bird-thing going on in both that logo and the OpenOfficeone. Maybe a bird being released from a cage?-RobRegards,RobinOn 6 Mar 2013, at 17:59, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards andinteroperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part ofDFD since it first started in 2008.Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file formatis broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, andvia the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard,and at Plugfests improving interoperability.I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can dosomething similar do what we did for International Mother LanguageDay: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly amillion people when we do this, so it is very effective.To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th:Time is running out if we want to do something.1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic.a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here:http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpgb) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here:http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.htmlc) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px.d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it infuture years as well.Anyone feel inspired to create an AOO/DFD logo for the website?2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is"Sunshine Week" in the US, and is focused on open government(http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up somethingthat connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helpspromote open government.I am currently working on a blog post for DFD.3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day.I've created a placeholder for a landing page that can be shared viaFacebook/Twitter/Google+. This is based on the work Samer did for thedownload page. It has no content, and I probably introduced somebugs. But it is full of potential !http://www.openoffice.org/social/dfd.htmlAnyone interested in helping?Again, time is running short if we want to do something for DocumentFreedom Day.Regards,-RobRegards,-Rob-To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.orgFor additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org-To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.orgFor additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org-To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.orgFor additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
Robin those look really good. I think they are excellent copy write ideas, letting the bird out of its cage, considering the DFD logo is a bird. For the website header do we need a wider logo? If so maybe a single cage with the OO orb to the right, same text underneath? Up to you Robin and if Rob Weir requires it. I think the two above are good size for posting to social media and sharing. Thank you for helping! On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.comwrote: Sorry for taking so long, unfortunately I've not had much time recently. I've come up with a logo, it's still quite rough but might be better than nothing. It doesn't have a transparent background because it's not straight forward with the shadow of the OO logo. (May I say it's a bit problematic having two different background colours. Especially when dealing with images that we have no access to layers.) Anyway, you may well prefer to use one of the other logos available, and that's fine. Robin On 6 Mar 2013, at 20:07, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote: I'll probably find the time to make a logo. I've seen the official logo for 2013. Is there any other source of inspiration or any suggestions anyone has? The ODF Community Logo might be another source of ideas: http://opendocument.xml.org/wiki/odf-community-logo ODF is the Open Document Format standard, which OpenOffice supports. So there is a bird-thing going on in both that logo and the OpenOffice one. Maybe a bird being released from a cage? -Rob Regards, Robin On 6 Mar 2013, at 17:59, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and interoperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part of DFD since it first started in 2008. Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard, and at Plugfests improving interoperability. I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can do something similar do what we did for International Mother Language Day: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly a million people when we do this, so it is very effective. To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th: Time is running out if we want to do something. 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic. a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here: http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px. d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in future years as well. Anyone feel inspired to create an AOO/DFD logo for the website? 2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is Sunshine Week in the US, and is focused on open government (http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up something that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps promote open government. I am currently working on a blog post for DFD. 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day. I've created a placeholder for a landing page that can be shared via Facebook/Twitter/Google+. This is based on the work Samer did for the download page. It has no content, and I probably introduced some bugs. But it is full of potential ! http://www.openoffice.org/social/dfd.html Anyone interested in helping? Again, time is running short if we want to do something for Document Freedom Day. Regards, -Rob Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.comwrote: Sorry for taking so long, unfortunately I've not had much time recently. I've come up with a logo, it's still quite rough but might be better than nothing. It doesn't have a transparent background because it's not straight forward with the shadow of the OO logo. (May I say it's a bit problematic having two different background colours. Especially when dealing with images that we have no access to layers.) Anyway, you may well prefer to use one of the other logos available, and that's fine. Hi Robin, I love the concept. I think our readers and users will as well. For the website (http://www.openoffice.org/) the idea was to put it in the upper left, to replace the current logo for the days leading up to DFD. But that space is currently only 100 pixels high. We might be able to exceed that by a little, but I'm not sure 240 pixels will work. One idea might be to toss out the text and the date and tighten the remaining elements. We can still use the text headline on the website (where it currently says Call For Designers: Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Brand Refresh Projecthttps://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/call_for_designers_apache_openoffice) for the actual DFD text and date. Does that make sense? Would that get us closer to 100px? Btw, I'll use the full version, as you have it now on the blog post, where we have more room to play with. Regards, -Rob Robin On 6 Mar 2013, at 20:07, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote: I'll probably find the time to make a logo. I've seen the official logo for 2013. Is there any other source of inspiration or any suggestions anyone has? The ODF Community Logo might be another source of ideas: http://opendocument.xml.org/wiki/odf-community-logo ODF is the Open Document Format standard, which OpenOffice supports. So there is a bird-thing going on in both that logo and the OpenOffice one. Maybe a bird being released from a cage? -Rob Regards, Robin On 6 Mar 2013, at 17:59, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and interoperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part of DFD since it first started in 2008. Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard, and at Plugfests improving interoperability. I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can do something similar do what we did for International Mother Language Day: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly a million people when we do this, so it is very effective. To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th: Time is running out if we want to do something. 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic. a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here: http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px. d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in future years as well. Anyone feel inspired to create an AOO/DFD logo for the website? 2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is Sunshine Week in the US, and is focused on open government (http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up something that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps promote open government. I am currently working on a blog post for DFD. 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day. I've created a placeholder for a landing page that can be shared via Facebook/Twitter/Google+. This is based on the work Samer did for the download page. It has no content, and I probably introduced some bugs. But it is full of potential ! http://www.openoffice.org/social/dfd.html Anyone interested in helping? Again, time is running short if we want to do something for Document Freedom Day. Regards, -Rob Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For
Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.comwrote: Sorry for taking so long, unfortunately I've not had much time recently. I've come up with a logo, it's still quite rough but might be better than nothing. It doesn't have a transparent background because it's not straight forward with the shadow of the OO logo. (May I say it's a bit problematic having two different background colours. Especially when dealing with images that we have no access to layers.) Anyway, you may well prefer to use one of the other logos available, and that's fine. Hi Robin, I love the concept. I think our readers and users will as well. For the website (http://www.openoffice.org/) the idea was to put it in the upper left, to replace the current logo for the days leading up to DFD. But that space is currently only 100 pixels high. We might be able to exceed that by a little, but I'm not sure 240 pixels will work. One idea might be to toss out the text and the date and tighten the remaining elements. We can still use the text headline on the website (where it currently says Call For Designers: Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Brand Refresh Projecthttps://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/call_for_designers_apache_openoffice) for the actual DFD text and date. Does that make sense? Would that get us closer to 100px? Btw, I'll use the full version, as you have it now on the blog post, where we have more room to play with. Here is the graphic in the context of the draft blog post: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=openoffice_and_odf I think the blog post could use an even larger version. What do others think? -Rob Regards, -Rob Robin On 6 Mar 2013, at 20:07, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote: I'll probably find the time to make a logo. I've seen the official logo for 2013. Is there any other source of inspiration or any suggestions anyone has? The ODF Community Logo might be another source of ideas: http://opendocument.xml.org/wiki/odf-community-logo ODF is the Open Document Format standard, which OpenOffice supports. So there is a bird-thing going on in both that logo and the OpenOffice one. Maybe a bird being released from a cage? -Rob Regards, Robin On 6 Mar 2013, at 17:59, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and interoperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part of DFD since it first started in 2008. Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard, and at Plugfests improving interoperability. I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can do something similar do what we did for International Mother Language Day: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly a million people when we do this, so it is very effective. To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th: Time is running out if we want to do something. 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic. a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here: http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px. d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in future years as well. Anyone feel inspired to create an AOO/DFD logo for the website? 2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is Sunshine Week in the US, and is focused on open government (http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up something that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps promote open government. I am currently working on a blog post for DFD. 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day. I've created a placeholder for a landing page that can be shared via Facebook/Twitter/Google+. This is based on the work Samer did for the download page. It has no content, and I probably introduced some bugs. But it is full of potential ! http://www.openoffice.org/social/dfd.html Anyone interested in helping? Again, time is running short if we want to do something for Document Freedom Day. Regards, -Rob Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
On 3/20/13, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On 3/6/13, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and interoperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part of DFD since it first started in 2008. Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard, and at Plugfests improving interoperability. I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can do something similar do what we did for International Mother Language Day: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly a million people when we do this, so it is very effective. To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th: Time is running out if we want to do something. 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic. a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here: http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html here is a simple one: http://imagebin.org/251039 Couple more: http://imagebin.org/251040 http://imagebin.org/251041 c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px. d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in future years as well. Anyone feel inspired to create an AOO/DFD logo for the website? 2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is Sunshine Week in the US, and is focused on open government (http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up something that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps promote open government. I am currently working on a blog post for DFD. 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day. I've created a placeholder for a landing page that can be shared via Facebook/Twitter/Google+. This is based on the work Samer did for the download page. It has no content, and I probably introduced some bugs. But it is full of potential ! http://www.openoffice.org/social/dfd.html Anyone interested in helping? Again, time is running short if we want to do something for Document Freedom Day. Regards, -Rob Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
On 3/6/13, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote: I'll probably find the time to make a logo. I've seen the official logo for 2013. Is there any other source of inspiration or any suggestions anyone has? You can see the artwork I did from both here: http://imagebin.org/251039 http://imagebin.org/251040 http://imagebin.org/251041 Regards, Robin On 6 Mar 2013, at 17:59, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and interoperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part of DFD since it first started in 2008. Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard, and at Plugfests improving interoperability. I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can do something similar do what we did for International Mother Language Day: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly a million people when we do this, so it is very effective. To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th: Time is running out if we want to do something. 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic. a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here: http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px. d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in future years as well. Anyone feel inspired to create an AOO/DFD logo for the website? 2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is Sunshine Week in the US, and is focused on open government (http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up something that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps promote open government. I am currently working on a blog post for DFD. 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day. I've created a placeholder for a landing page that can be shared via Facebook/Twitter/Google+. This is based on the work Samer did for the download page. It has no content, and I probably introduced some bugs. But it is full of potential ! http://www.openoffice.org/social/dfd.html Anyone interested in helping? Again, time is running short if we want to do something for Document Freedom Day. Regards, -Rob Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and interoperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part of DFD since it first started in 2008. Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard, and at Plugfests improving interoperability. I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can do something similar do what we did for International Mother Language Day: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly a million people when we do this, so it is very effective. To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th: Time is running out if we want to do something. 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic. a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here: http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px. d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in future years as well. Anyone feel inspired to create an AOO/DFD logo for the website? 2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is Sunshine Week in the US, and is focused on open government (http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up something that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps promote open government. I am currently working on a blog post for DFD. 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day. I've created a placeholder for a landing page that can be shared via Facebook/Twitter/Google+. This is based on the work Samer did for the download page. It has no content, and I probably introduced some bugs. But it is full of potential ! http://www.openoffice.org/social/dfd.html Anyone interested in helping? Again, time is running short if we want to do something for Document Freedom Day. Regards, -Rob Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
I'll probably find the time to make a logo. I've seen the official logo for 2013. Is there any other source of inspiration or any suggestions anyone has? Regards, Robin On 6 Mar 2013, at 17:59, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and interoperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part of DFD since it first started in 2008. Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard, and at Plugfests improving interoperability. I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can do something similar do what we did for International Mother Language Day: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly a million people when we do this, so it is very effective. To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th: Time is running out if we want to do something. 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic. a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here: http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px. d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in future years as well. Anyone feel inspired to create an AOO/DFD logo for the website? 2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is Sunshine Week in the US, and is focused on open government (http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up something that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps promote open government. I am currently working on a blog post for DFD. 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day. I've created a placeholder for a landing page that can be shared via Facebook/Twitter/Google+. This is based on the work Samer did for the download page. It has no content, and I probably introduced some bugs. But it is full of potential ! http://www.openoffice.org/social/dfd.html Anyone interested in helping? Again, time is running short if we want to do something for Document Freedom Day. Regards, -Rob Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote: I'll probably find the time to make a logo. I've seen the official logo for 2013. Is there any other source of inspiration or any suggestions anyone has? The ODF Community Logo might be another source of ideas: http://opendocument.xml.org/wiki/odf-community-logo ODF is the Open Document Format standard, which OpenOffice supports. So there is a bird-thing going on in both that logo and the OpenOffice one. Maybe a bird being released from a cage? -Rob Regards, Robin On 6 Mar 2013, at 17:59, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and interoperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part of DFD since it first started in 2008. Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard, and at Plugfests improving interoperability. I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can do something similar do what we did for International Mother Language Day: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly a million people when we do this, so it is very effective. To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th: Time is running out if we want to do something. 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic. a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here: http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px. d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in future years as well. Anyone feel inspired to create an AOO/DFD logo for the website? 2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is Sunshine Week in the US, and is focused on open government (http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up something that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps promote open government. I am currently working on a blog post for DFD. 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day. I've created a placeholder for a landing page that can be shared via Facebook/Twitter/Google+. This is based on the work Samer did for the download page. It has no content, and I probably introduced some bugs. But it is full of potential ! http://www.openoffice.org/social/dfd.html Anyone interested in helping? Again, time is running short if we want to do something for Document Freedom Day. Regards, -Rob Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Rob, It is very informative and include the same in the page or not With Warm Regards V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 914422396480 On 1 March 2013 21:34, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote: The http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Dfd gives very few information how OpenOffice uses the open standard file format. By reading the page, I am not sure whether all the files of AOO are of open standard. The page can be added with few more information, in what direction the open standard file formats are available. Is there any file format for drawings , paintings, video, audio etc. The ODF standard handles the main formats used by OpenOffice applications: *.odt = text documents *.ods = spreadsheets *.odp = presentations (There are others as well, but less common) Open standard has different meanings, which you can see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard But generally it means 1) It is a published standard, and 2) It does not require payment of royalties in order to implement it. There are many standards out there that are not open. For example MP3 audio has several patents on it, and a device manufacturer that implements MP3 must pay royalties. But most of the common web standards, including all those from the W3C, are open standards. The ODF document format standard is also open. OpenOffice also implements some formats that are not open standards. For example, the old binary format from Microsoft, the doc/xls/ppt formats. Although these don't require royalty payments, they are not standards, since they have not been reviewed/approved by any standards organization. So they are not open standards. The advantage of open standards is that it encourages competition since everyone has access to the technical information as well as rights to implement the standard. This is quite common today, but it was not always this way. For example, back around 2000 we didn't have good documentation on Microsoft file formats. And the only information available had a restriction on it, that it could not be used by anyone was creating a competing application. So this lead to lock-in, where the user had to continue buying Microsoft Office in order to have access to their own documents. It was a lot of hard work, especially in Europe where the EC got involved, but now open standards are the norm for document formats. Regards, -Rob Regards, -Rob With Warm Regards V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 914422396480 On 28 February 2013 01:35, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: On 1) Can I suggest we make the graphic change maybe 3-5 days before DFD. Make an earlier blog post letting people know its coming up. We should go viral before the day. I agree. Even though the actual even is on a specific day we'll get more notice if we start a few days ahead of time. I could create a small page about AOO and DFD and what it means to us. Much like the download page, we can assign the social platform meta-data image and text to the one we're promoting AOO with. We could then link it to the early and day-of blog posts. So the idea would be that visitors could like or share that page to their social network? I like that idea. Anything that we can do to turn it into a two-way engagement/sharing will be more effective than simply broadcasting information in a single direction. For example, with IMLD, the actual blog post did not get much of a response, but a simple Facebook post asking the question How do you say 'free software' in your Mother Language? got 45 comments, 44 likes, and 2 shares. - - - - - PAGE META DATA [Image=AOO-DFD-Doodle.png] [Title=Apache OpenOffice celebrates DFD, learn more here.] [Text=AOO is committed to support ODF standards so that everyone can access their information independent of the tools and suites they use. Learn more here.] IN TYPICAL OO.org PAGE TEMPLATE [Short brief about what it means to us. Benefits to society, talk about owning your information and having the freedom to move to other office suites and OS/Technology platforms. Talk about how we support multiple platforms for that freedom. Windows to Linux to OS X] Let your friends know its document freedom day on March 27th: [Share Facebook] [Share Twitter] [Share Google+]
Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote: The http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Dfd gives very few information how OpenOffice uses the open standard file format. By reading the page, I am not sure whether all the files of AOO are of open standard. The page can be added with few more information, in what direction the open standard file formats are available. Is there any file format for drawings , paintings, video, audio etc. The ODF standard handles the main formats used by OpenOffice applications: *.odt = text documents *.ods = spreadsheets *.odp = presentations (There are others as well, but less common) I believe this content is easily available on the net, however the focus of a microsite is to give a very general and to the point message. And also provide other angles on this like public testimonies, proof of qualities and milestones in the adoption of the subject (in this case open documents) and it's relation with the project. Yes, of course. This is just background information for those on the list who is not familiar with the history here. Anyone can go to wikipedia and learn more about the technical parts such as how many OpenDocuments are, but I think this isn't really the goal of a microsite, nor should it daunt the reader with it. I also think is an opportunity to embrace some design trends used such as Single-Page Websites SEO techniques and further trends that could be done on a sandbox. There are at least two pieces here: 1) The blog post should, I think, explain the relationship between the AOO project and ODF. We have a good story to tell here, both historically as well as currently. The blog post, though is read by relatively few people. 2) The Document Freedom Day web page can be more purely about showing support for Document Freedom. It should be something that someone wants to share on Facebook. Something with a snappy message, visually compelling or interesting in some way that you want to let others know about it. It needs to be worth a click. -Rob Open standard has different meanings, which you can see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard But generally it means 1) It is a published standard, and 2) It does not require payment of royalties in order to implement it. There are many standards out there that are not open. For example MP3 audio has several patents on it, and a device manufacturer that implements MP3 must pay royalties. But most of the common web standards, including all those from the W3C, are open standards. The ODF document format standard is also open. OpenOffice also implements some formats that are not open standards. For example, the old binary format from Microsoft, the doc/xls/ppt formats. Although these don't require royalty payments, they are not standards, since they have not been reviewed/approved by any standards organization. So they are not open standards. The advantage of open standards is that it encourages competition since everyone has access to the technical information as well as rights to implement the standard. This is quite common today, but it was not always this way. For example, back around 2000 we didn't have good documentation on Microsoft file formats. And the only information available had a restriction on it, that it could not be used by anyone was creating a competing application. So this lead to lock-in, where the user had to continue buying Microsoft Office in order to have access to their own documents. It was a lot of hard work, especially in Europe where the EC got involved, but now open standards are the norm for document formats. Regards, -Rob Regards, -Rob With Warm Regards V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 914422396480 On 28 February 2013 01:35, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: On 1) Can I suggest we make the graphic change maybe 3-5 days before DFD. Make an earlier blog post letting people know its coming up. We should go viral before the day. I agree. Even though the actual even is on a specific day we'll get more notice if we start a few days ahead of time. I could create a small page about AOO and DFD and what it means to us. Much like the download page, we can assign the social platform meta-data image and text to the one we're promoting AOO with. We could then link it to the early and day-of blog posts. So the idea would be that visitors could like or share that page to their social network? I like that idea. Anything
