Re: GNOME store

2006-10-29 Thread Quim Gil
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 19:04 +0200, Thilo Pfennig wrote: > 1) I think certainly this must be integrated into the upcoming CMS. This is the clear option when we have only one reseller. Having only two already complicates a bit the process, but I guess is doable. Another thing to be considered are

Re: GNOME Logo Branding Guidelines Concerns

2006-10-29 Thread Quim Gil
Thilo, nothing personal but I disagree again. ;) I don't think we should modify the logo based on countries or languages. Everywhere and in every language Nike is Nike, Honda is Honda, Firefox is Firefox... and I think GNOME should be GNOME. If you want to add flags or whatever local graphic you

Re: GNOME Logo Branding Guidelines Concerns

2006-10-29 Thread Luis Villa
I would leave this up to the brand experts, but I have to disagree with you here, Quim- as long as it is identifiably GNOME, people should be encouraged to 'own' the brand and make it their own. If that means customizing it for their country/team/whatever, great. The universal, tightly controlled b

Re: GNOME Logo Branding Guidelines Concerns

2006-10-29 Thread Alex Hudson
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 08:56 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > I would leave this up to the brand experts, but I have to disagree > with you here, Quim- as long as it is identifiably GNOME, people > should be encouraged to 'own' the brand and make it their own. If that > means customizing it for their coun

Re: GNOME Logo Branding Guidelines Concerns

2006-10-29 Thread Quim Gil
Sorry, I should have made clear that my only concern was about using flags in connection of locale languages, not aboutn the logo derivations in general. I also think people should be encouraged to own the brand and I like the collection of derivatives proposed by Máirín in the brandbook. I fully

Gnome.org Design Suggestion

2006-10-29 Thread Talat UYARER
We try to design new site for gnome.org.tr. I think may be gnome.org want to use different design at now. I have a suggestion for gnome.org : http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/1953/gnometurkeytest1mu6bo4.jpg What do you think about new design suggestion ? -- marketing-list mailing list marketing

Re: GNOME Logo Branding Guidelines Concerns

2006-10-29 Thread Máirín Duffy
Quim Gil wrote: > PS: reading twice Thilo's email I see he also agrees that "using flags > for languages is a bad idea" I kind of think it depends on the language and the context surrounding it, though. I think for a language like Japanese or say Irish Gaelic where the language really is mostly

Re: GNOME Logo Branding Guidelines Concerns

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
> So I guess in a nutshell I don't think we should dictate whether or not > flags must be used. I wouldn't completely ban them completely, however. We (roughly) do in GNOME itself, due to all the political issues with flags. The problem with having clear-cut cases and less clear-cut cases is tha

Re: GNOME store

2006-10-29 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Quim Gil wrote: > Killermundi will define the final price for each product and the cut > that would go to the GNOME Foundation. It would be nice to negociate this and have a price in the contract, rather than leave it up to their good will. This is what I have done in my (failed) attempts in

Re: GNOME store

2006-10-29 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Quim Gil wrote: > DESIGN > > Who is designing the products? We? Killermundi? Both? Depends on the > product? We need to reduce the work we have to do. So Killermundi designs, but we have a veto on designs (all designs have to be approved by GNOME, perhaps in writing). Cheers, Dave. -- D

Re: GNOME store

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I don't think it's particularly painful having the payment platform off > gnome.org, but I hope that they can style it so that it doesn't look > completely different. To the contrary, if the shop is not operated by us, the payment gateway area should look utterly different (albeit with a GNOME