I second Priscilla's comments. We have spent quite a bit of time agonizing over these landing pages - particularly for Scooby 0.1. I really feel this effort would be more worthwhile if spent on the overall OSAF branding project - starting from scratch. We seem to be trying to use various releases like Scooby 0.1, Cosmo 0.3 to make progress on the larger branding effort. This is the wrong approach. We need to start out with the whole ecosystem design/branding process independently, which will of course be in-line with 1.0 strategy and roadmap work we are doing. 

Personally, I don't like the web calendar tag line but I think it's fine for Scooby 0.1 as long as people realize it's temporary and will most definitely change. Our future logo might not even have this kind of a tag line, we don't know at this point. Also, the Cosmo page is using those bubble left nav buttons when they were designed specifically for Chandler 0.7 (to look like calendar lozenges). This look is now migrated to Cosmo, Scooby and (sorry to sound harsh) it just doesn't work. IMHO, I prefer the basic wiki page we had before but we have decided that we will go with this for now. I just want to reiterate that it's temporary so don't get too attached to this look.

Sheila

On Mar 26, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:

Based on discussions from the status Scooby meeting two weeks ago and from the Scooby mailing list, the logos have been modified to match the Chandler colors, and add tag line to Scooby place holder logo.

Here are the revised logos for people's reference:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/PlaceHolderLogo

In addition to revising the logos, I also placed the revised Cosmo logo in Pieter's sketch of the Cosmo landing page. Bottom of this page: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/CosmoLandingPage

This raises a few questions:

+ The Cosmo tag line now competes with the 'by OSAF' tag, see Chandler landing page. This will also compete with the Scooby 'web calendar' tag line.

+ Does the 'web calendar' tag line place Scooby in a narrow category of AJAX calendars instead of a web-based extension of the chandler philosophy? This is a branding issue that needs to be addressed.

+ It seems to me that the real issues and effort should be made to work towards a professional look and feel for the OSAF main site as well as the Chandler, Cosmo and Scooby ecosystem. Further discussions in revising the logos to match the landing pages outside the context of branding is really an ad-hoc approach. The proposed pages are more consistent than what there is now, without question. Though a MUCH better page could be created if we focus on pages based on branding discussions.

-Priscilla
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