Re: Xmass is gone what's next.
Perhaps this could be turned around. What if we put some requirements around producing a special logo (what type of events qualified, lead time for proposing and producing a modified logo, quality and licensing requirements for the modified logo). Then if there was enough interest we could have some fun with the AOO logo much like the Google Doodle. The requirement might be discussion and consensus of the marketing list, with notification to dev (and the possibility of higher decision) Part of the requirements might be a blog entry about the subject of the logo and it's relationship to AOO (with the logo linking to the blog entry) A. On 1/7/2013 4:11 PM, Peter Junge wrote: On 1/7/2013 2:09 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: Unfortunately we didnt act for 2013 new years eve (something to consider for next year) we could ask for 2014 graphics already. :) So what's next, next major celebration or just return to the traditional logo and look forward on bigger tasks like the new theme. What else has widespread interest? 1. Chinese Lunar New Year, February 10th, but is really a multi-day holiday in countries that observe it. 2013 is the "Year of the Snake" That would be really great because we have a large Chinese community. How about merging the Orb Logo with a Chinese lantern? 2. March 20th, First Day of Spring That's getting too much. 3. March 27th, Document Freedom Day Certainly. 4. May 22nd, 200th birthday of Richard Wagner (add Viking horns to the logo?) Apart form that Guiseppe Verdi was born in the same year in October and Wikipedia lists over 900 other persons who were born that year and what bout 1863, 1913 and 1963? That might be getting out of bounds. 5. June 15-30 FIFA Confederations Cup (turn logo into a ball?) I would only consider Olympic games when it comes to sports, maybe also FIFA World Championships and other events of that size. It depends on how often we want to change the logo. Not too often. Peter I have been thinking about using free fonts from OpenFontLibrary to theme our site which currently used a bit of a traditional fonts. One of my fonts are Junction, Didact Gothic. Confortaa http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/junction http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/didact-gothic http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/comfortaa As far as colors, I think we need more colors and change the design of the menus. Get rid of the top bar, side bar and embrace a more vectorial and modern feel to it. Things like landing sites that are more scroll intensive and less compartamentalize. Looking at Gnome.org Mozilla.org Calligra-Suite.org and KDE.org this seems to be the case. So I guess a first layout of these would be a good way to start talking about the future of the site. I also think we would benefit from a redesign of the website look & feel. IMHO what we have today is too "busy". -Rob -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
Re: Xmass is gone what's next.
The comments and ideas under the widesperad interest part of the thread are heading in a direction that gets my support. Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan with The Vital Portal Alphonso Whitfield i...@thevitalportal.com Vital 912-816-2595 Skype: vital.i.net Visit us at: The Vital Portal The Vital Portal On facebook Visit our Google Community Join our Vital Portal Webinars at: The Vital Portal WebEx Meeting Center . - Original Message - From: "Peter Junge" To: marketing@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 7:11:46 PM Subject: Re: Xmass is gone what's next. On 1/7/2013 2:09 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> Unfortunately we didnt act for 2013 new years eve (something to >> consider for next year) we could ask for 2014 graphics already. :) >> >> So what's next, next major celebration or just return to the >> traditional logo and look forward on bigger tasks like the new theme. >> > > What else has widespread interest? > > 1. Chinese Lunar New Year, February 10th, but is really a multi-day > holiday in countries that observe it. 2013 is the "Year of the Snake" That would be really great because we have a large Chinese community. How about merging the Orb Logo with a Chinese lantern? > > 2. March 20th, First Day of Spring That's getting too much. > > 3. March 27th, Document Freedom Day Certainly. > > 4. May 22nd, 200th birthday of Richard Wagner (add Viking horns to the logo?) Apart form that Guiseppe Verdi was born in the same year in October and Wikipedia lists over 900 other persons who were born that year and what bout 1863, 1913 and 1963? That might be getting out of bounds. > > 5. June 15-30 FIFA Confederations Cup (turn logo into a ball?) I would only consider Olympic games when it comes to sports, maybe also FIFA World Championships and other events of that size. > > It depends on how often we want to change the logo. Not too often. Peter > > >> I have been thinking about using free fonts from OpenFontLibrary to >> theme our site which currently used a bit of a traditional fonts. One >> of my fonts are Junction, Didact Gothic. Confortaa >> http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/junction >> http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/didact-gothic >> http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/comfortaa >> >> As far as colors, I think we need more colors and change the design of >> the menus. Get rid of the top bar, side bar and embrace a more >> vectorial and modern feel to it. Things like landing sites that are >> more scroll intensive and less compartamentalize. >> >> Looking at Gnome.org Mozilla.org Calligra-Suite.org and KDE.org this >> seems to be the case. So I guess a first layout of these would be a >> good way to start talking about the future of the site. >> > > I also think we would benefit from a redesign of the website look & > feel. IMHO what we have today is too "busy". > > -Rob > >> >> -- >> Alexandro Colorado >> PPMC Apache OpenOffice >> http://es.openoffice.org
Re: Xmass is gone what's next.
On 1/7/2013 2:09 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: Unfortunately we didnt act for 2013 new years eve (something to consider for next year) we could ask for 2014 graphics already. :) So what's next, next major celebration or just return to the traditional logo and look forward on bigger tasks like the new theme. What else has widespread interest? 1. Chinese Lunar New Year, February 10th, but is really a multi-day holiday in countries that observe it. 2013 is the "Year of the Snake" That would be really great because we have a large Chinese community. How about merging the Orb Logo with a Chinese lantern? 2. March 20th, First Day of Spring That's getting too much. 3. March 27th, Document Freedom Day Certainly. 4. May 22nd, 200th birthday of Richard Wagner (add Viking horns to the logo?) Apart form that Guiseppe Verdi was born in the same year in October and Wikipedia lists over 900 other persons who were born that year and what bout 1863, 1913 and 1963? That might be getting out of bounds. 5. June 15-30 FIFA Confederations Cup (turn logo into a ball?) I would only consider Olympic games when it comes to sports, maybe also FIFA World Championships and other events of that size. It depends on how often we want to change the logo. Not too often. Peter I have been thinking about using free fonts from OpenFontLibrary to theme our site which currently used a bit of a traditional fonts. One of my fonts are Junction, Didact Gothic. Confortaa http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/junction http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/didact-gothic http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/comfortaa As far as colors, I think we need more colors and change the design of the menus. Get rid of the top bar, side bar and embrace a more vectorial and modern feel to it. Things like landing sites that are more scroll intensive and less compartamentalize. Looking at Gnome.org Mozilla.org Calligra-Suite.org and KDE.org this seems to be the case. So I guess a first layout of these would be a good way to start talking about the future of the site. I also think we would benefit from a redesign of the website look & feel. IMHO what we have today is too "busy". -Rob -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
RE: Xmass is gone what's next.
Kindly remove me from mail list. Bright Mulu Procurement Officer Commercial Konkola Copper Mines plc Phone: E-mail: bright.m...@kcm.co.zm -Original Message- From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alexandro Colorado Sent: 07 January 2013 10:51 To: marketing@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Xmass is gone what's next. On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: > >> [Alexandro] next major celebration or just return to the >>> >>> traditional logo and look forward on bigger tasks like the new theme. >>> >> What else has widespread interest? >> > > I would use the normal logo except for the end-of-year holidays and > for exceptional cases where we want to celebrate something where the > OpenOffice community has an active, prominent role. > +1 > So I would understand that we use a "special" variant of the logo > again for the language day on February 21 (only if OpenOffice does > something to celebrate it: engaging the L10N community, calling for > translation > volunteers...) and for the Document Freedom Day on March 27 (since > OpenOffice is one of the big players here, and should celebrate as such). > ApacheCon could be another occasion. > I have contributed to the Document Freedom Day in the past with some artwork and localization. Would be fun to do something this year with some time in advanced and having AOO people involved. That said in the past we tried the idea of mini-sites dedicated to Software Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day. > > Regards, > Andrea. > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please let us know by email reply and delete it from your system. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Konkola Copper Mines plc. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Konkola Copper Mines plc accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.
Re: Xmass is gone what's next.
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: > >> [Alexandro] next major celebration or just return to the >>> >>> traditional logo and look forward on bigger tasks like the new theme. >>> >> What else has widespread interest? >> > > I would use the normal logo except for the end-of-year holidays and for > exceptional cases where we want to celebrate something where the OpenOffice > community has an active, prominent role. > +1 > So I would understand that we use a "special" variant of the logo again > for the language day on February 21 (only if OpenOffice does something to > celebrate it: engaging the L10N community, calling for translation > volunteers...) and for the Document Freedom Day on March 27 (since > OpenOffice is one of the big players here, and should celebrate as such). > ApacheCon could be another occasion. > I have contributed to the Document Freedom Day in the past with some artwork and localization. Would be fun to do something this year with some time in advanced and having AOO people involved. That said in the past we tried the idea of mini-sites dedicated to Software Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day. > > Regards, > Andrea. > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org
Re: Xmass is gone what's next.
Rob Weir wrote: [Alexandro] next major celebration or just return to the traditional logo and look forward on bigger tasks like the new theme. What else has widespread interest? I would use the normal logo except for the end-of-year holidays and for exceptional cases where we want to celebrate something where the OpenOffice community has an active, prominent role. So I would understand that we use a "special" variant of the logo again for the language day on February 21 (only if OpenOffice does something to celebrate it: engaging the L10N community, calling for translation volunteers...) and for the Document Freedom Day on March 27 (since OpenOffice is one of the big players here, and should celebrate as such). ApacheCon could be another occasion. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Xmass is gone what's next.
I believe it is a grave error to build a marketing calendar around "holidays" of the traditional retail industry , the sales and marketing touchstones should be around a different calendar that is appropriate and related to the software we are selling, i.e. business and technological milestones. We are selling a contrarian product so a contrarian calendar and sales cycle is in order. thus we achieve the proper differentiation from the crowd. Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan with The Vital Portal Alphonso Whitfield i...@thevitalportal.com Vital 912-816-2595 Skype: vital.i.net Visit us at: The Vital Portal The Vital Portal On facebook Visit our Google Community Join our Vital Portal Webinars at: The Vital Portal WebEx Meeting Center . - Original Message - From: "Rob Weir" To: marketing@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2013 1:09:42 PM Subject: Re: Xmass is gone what's next. On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Unfortunately we didnt act for 2013 new years eve (something to > consider for next year) we could ask for 2014 graphics already. :) > > So what's next, next major celebration or just return to the > traditional logo and look forward on bigger tasks like the new theme. > What else has widespread interest? 1. Chinese Lunar New Year, February 10th, but is really a multi-day holiday in countries that observe it. 2013 is the "Year of the Snake" 2. March 20th, First Day of Spring 3. March 27th, Document Freedom Day 4. May 22nd, 200th birthday of Richard Wagner (add Viking horns to the logo?) 5. June 15-30 FIFA Confederations Cup (turn logo into a ball?) It depends on how often we want to change the logo. > I have been thinking about using free fonts from OpenFontLibrary to > theme our site which currently used a bit of a traditional fonts. One > of my fonts are Junction, Didact Gothic. Confortaa > http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/junction > http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/didact-gothic > http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/comfortaa > > As far as colors, I think we need more colors and change the design of > the menus. Get rid of the top bar, side bar and embrace a more > vectorial and modern feel to it. Things like landing sites that are > more scroll intensive and less compartamentalize. > > Looking at Gnome.org Mozilla.org Calligra-Suite.org and KDE.org this > seems to be the case. So I guess a first layout of these would be a > good way to start talking about the future of the site. > I also think we would benefit from a redesign of the website look & feel. IMHO what we have today is too "busy". -Rob > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > PPMC Apache OpenOffice > http://es.openoffice.org
Re: Xmass is gone what's next.
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Unfortunately we didnt act for 2013 new years eve (something to > consider for next year) we could ask for 2014 graphics already. :) > > So what's next, next major celebration or just return to the > traditional logo and look forward on bigger tasks like the new theme. > What else has widespread interest? 1. Chinese Lunar New Year, February 10th, but is really a multi-day holiday in countries that observe it. 2013 is the "Year of the Snake" 2. March 20th, First Day of Spring 3. March 27th, Document Freedom Day 4. May 22nd, 200th birthday of Richard Wagner (add Viking horns to the logo?) 5. June 15-30 FIFA Confederations Cup (turn logo into a ball?) It depends on how often we want to change the logo. > I have been thinking about using free fonts from OpenFontLibrary to > theme our site which currently used a bit of a traditional fonts. One > of my fonts are Junction, Didact Gothic. Confortaa > http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/junction > http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/didact-gothic > http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/comfortaa > > As far as colors, I think we need more colors and change the design of > the menus. Get rid of the top bar, side bar and embrace a more > vectorial and modern feel to it. Things like landing sites that are > more scroll intensive and less compartamentalize. > > Looking at Gnome.org Mozilla.org Calligra-Suite.org and KDE.org this > seems to be the case. So I guess a first layout of these would be a > good way to start talking about the future of the site. > I also think we would benefit from a redesign of the website look & feel. IMHO what we have today is too "busy". -Rob > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > PPMC Apache OpenOffice > http://es.openoffice.org
Xmass is gone what's next.
Unfortunately we didnt act for 2013 new years eve (something to consider for next year) we could ask for 2014 graphics already. :) So what's next, next major celebration or just return to the traditional logo and look forward on bigger tasks like the new theme. I have been thinking about using free fonts from OpenFontLibrary to theme our site which currently used a bit of a traditional fonts. One of my fonts are Junction, Didact Gothic. Confortaa http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/junction http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/didact-gothic http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/comfortaa As far as colors, I think we need more colors and change the design of the menus. Get rid of the top bar, side bar and embrace a more vectorial and modern feel to it. Things like landing sites that are more scroll intensive and less compartamentalize. Looking at Gnome.org Mozilla.org Calligra-Suite.org and KDE.org this seems to be the case. So I guess a first layout of these would be a good way to start talking about the future of the site. -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
