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On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Bernhard Dippold < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello KAZ (or should I call you Terada-san, I know very little about > Japanese customs), hi all! > > Most of you know me, but let me introduce myself in a few sentences: > I've been one of the most active contributors in the OpenOffice.org Art > project (http://marketing.openoffice.org/art) for several years and tried > all this time to improve the common look and feel for OpenOffice.org > throughout all the visual appearances of our product and our community. > About half a year ago we started a new marketing sub-project, the Branding > Initiative (http://marketing.openoffice.org/brand) in order to establish a > strong and consistent branding for OpenOffice.org. This initiative is still > working on the basic guidelines for our branding, but hopefully we will be > able to define in a few weeks, how our logo and central graphical elements > should be used. > > A broader effort will be necessary to define a consistent general visual > design for our website, the product and all the appearances of > OpenOffice.org in public. > > This would mean to align the at least the top pages of the different OOo > websites with general elements, page formatting and so on, leaving enough > space for individual / project related design. > > Therefore it is necessary to work collaboratively on this general approach > - together with web designers and artists from all the different > native-language and other projects. The place to work on this task is the > website project with relevant input from the Branding Initiative (definition > of the basics might go the other way round). > > Funding of individual web design seems not to be the way to go IMHO, and I > don't think that this is meant by the budget definition. > > As our web design needs continuous work and improvement, it is necessary to > attract people to join for a long-term commitment. This can't be done by any > single time payment. > > A much better approach is to mention relevant contributors actively and > allow them to refer to their work for OpenOffice.org: > > "I've been in the team that updated the central representation of > OpenOffice.org worldwide" (with link to the official credit page) might lead > to more positive reactions than a fund - and to more contributors in future. > > I'm very lucky that you wrote: > > KAZUHIRO TERADA schrieb: > > The reason why I joined in the project is > > not for money. I love OOo and fully enjoy the benefits of OOo, so I > > wanna do something for the project. On the other hand systems to > > motivate project members are needed. How should we do? > > Perhaps the way I describe might lead to the results we want to achieve. > > Please forgive me if my mail sounds negative, I really appreciate your > effort! > > Best regards > > Bernhard > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Alexa Johns MGID.com | Business Development http://news.us.marketgid.com/ [email protected]
