Re: [OSM-talk] [Design] Banners on the Front Page

2013-03-27 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi, On 03/23/2013 11:21 AM, Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi All, I saw the request for a banner [1] and replied via email as I am not on the design mailing list. For transparency here is my reply: === start === There is a wider issue (and don't mean to be a spoil sport) that local events using the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Design] Banners on the Front Page

2013-03-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
It's okay for us as we are in the deep end and are well informed. For those outside or on the fringes of OSM, the naming of conferences may be a little confusing. Just saying. I partly think it comes down to what we want SotM events to be. Are they simply community get togethers for general chat

Re: [OSM-talk] [Design] Banners on the Front Page

2013-03-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, I saw the request for a banner [1] and replied via email as I am not on the design mailing list. For transparency here is my reply: === start === There is a wider issue (and don't mean to be a spoil sport) that local events using the SotM brand could lead to a weakening of the main

Re: [OSM-talk] [Design] Banners on the Front Page

2013-03-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[wider issue, so cc:ing talk@] On 22/03/2013 15:32, Shaun McDonald wrote: On 22 Mar 2013, at 14:06, Harry Wood m...@harrywood.co.uk wrote: ...we have a strip down the left, and this screen real-estate is valuable space. Here more than anywhere users are eyeballing the graphics, text, and user

Re: [OSM-talk] [Design] Banners on the Front Page

2013-03-22 Thread Jeff Meyer
Richard's ideas make sense and are forward looking. I'm not sure there's value in bantering around precedence in this case. On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: [wider issue, so cc:ing talk@] On 22/03/2013 15:32, Shaun McDonald wrote: On 22 Mar

Re: [OSM-talk] [Design] Banners on the Front Page

2013-03-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/3/22 Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org Richard's ideas make sense and are forward looking. I'm not sure there's value in bantering around precedence in this case. +1 cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] [Design] Banners on the Front Page

2013-03-22 Thread Arlindo Pereira
I totally agree with this. Even though I can only talk for myself, as a brazilian user I'd like to have a more proeminent way to talk with brazilian users - and when I say users, not ourselves, heavy-users, seasoned mappers, who participate on mailing lists and/or wiki because we already talk to

Re: [OSM-talk] [Design] Banners on the Front Page

2013-03-22 Thread Mikel Maron
Actually, this is a great opportunity to devolve local marketing to local chapters.    Use GeoIP etc. to find what country the user is from. Serve the message for that country.   +1. Easy enough In the longer term, let's look to do even better targeting than GeoIP. Users will express