Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-06-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: What we've done so far: 1) Called for logo submissions from the community 2) Many designers responded and we received 40 submissions. There was a lot of cross-fertilization of ideas, as designers saw what others had come

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-06-03 Thread David Gerard
On 28 May 2013 18:12, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: It never occurred to me that those were flying books. Taking another look, it still doesn't work. If made more obviously as books, I'm not sure how that will occur as indicative of an office productivity suite. (I

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-31 Thread Kay Schenk
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Rob Weir rabas...@gmail.com wrote: On May 30, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Le 30/05/2013 22:53, Rob Weir a écrit : I think the important thing

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-31 Thread Rob Weir
On May 31, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Rob Weir rabas...@gmail.com wrote: On May 30, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Le

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-30 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 28/05/2013 00:55, Dennis E. Hamilton a écrit : PS: Interesting that we've come around to a close variant of the current logo. Well, rather disappointing I would say. So much energy lost for just so few changes... Perhaps it tells that there was no need to change the logo at all. Le

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Le 28/05/2013 00:55, Dennis E. Hamilton a écrit : PS: Interesting that we've come around to a close variant of the current logo. Well, rather disappointing I would say. So much energy lost for just so few

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-30 Thread Donald Whytock
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.netwrote: Le 30/05/2013 22:53, Rob Weir a écrit : I think the important thing is to realize that long-standing OpenOffice users, like you and me, have strong opinions and perceptions on this that are not necessarily

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-30 Thread Rob Weir
On May 30, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.netwrote: Le 30/05/2013 22:53, Rob Weir a écrit : I think the important thing is to realize that long-standing OpenOffice users, like you and me, have

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-29 Thread Kay Schenk
logo. -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 03:22 PM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; market...@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection What we've done so far: 1) Called for logo submissions

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-29 Thread Albino B Neto
2013/5/27 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org: That's where we are now. The updated logos (three of them) are on the wiki now: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Stage+2+Logo+Refinement As you can see there is quite a bit of convergence on a design occurring. So what next?

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-28 Thread Kadal Amutham
: Interesting that we've come around to a close variant of the current logo. -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 03:22 PM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; market...@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-28 Thread Kevin Grignon
variant of the current logo. -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 03:22 PM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; market...@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection What we've done so far: 1) Called for logo

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-28 Thread Kevin Grignon
for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection What we've done so far: 1) Called for logo submissions from the community 2) Many designers responded and we received 40 submissions. There was a lot of cross-fertilization of ideas, as designers saw what others had come up with, what worked, and borrowed ideas

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-28 Thread Alphonso Whitfield III
Subject: Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection I like the darker font colour for Apache, but prefer all caps as it supports a more balanced layout. The descender or long leg of the Apache letter p when rendered in lowercase causes tension as it stabs the openOffice logo type. Thoughts

RE: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
; dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection Hello all, I wanted to share some design rationale for the gull/book pages enhancement in my logo. In my design I wanted to make the gulls into flying books. I made them broader and more active. I was going

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-28 Thread Donald Whytock
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: The only way I can visualize the book notion is that I am seeing an unfolded piece of paper. If this is two facing pages of an open book, the problem is there is nothing to suggest the rest of the book. It

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-28 Thread Dave Fisher
, May 28, 2013 05:44 AM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Cc: marketing; dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection Hello all, I wanted to share some design rationale for the gull/book pages enhancement in my logo. In my design I wanted to make the gulls

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 28/05/2013 Rob Weir wrote: That's where we are now. The updated logos (three of them) are on the wiki now: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Stage+2+Logo+Refinement As you can see there is quite a bit of convergence on a design occurring. This is just right for a product

Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-27 Thread Rob Weir
What we've done so far: 1) Called for logo submissions from the community 2) Many designers responded and we received 40 submissions. There was a lot of cross-fertilization of ideas, as designers saw what others had come up with, what worked, and borrowed ideas. 3) We did a survey of user

RE: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-27 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
variant of the current logo. -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 03:22 PM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; market...@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection What we've done so far: 1) Called for logo

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-27 Thread Dave Fisher
; market...@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection What we've done so far: 1) Called for logo submissions from the community 2) Many designers responded and we received 40 submissions. There was a lot of cross-fertilization of ideas, as designers saw what