On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Kevin Grignon <kevingrignon...@gmail.com>wrote:
> My pleasure. > > On Feb 25, 2013, at 4:26 AM, Samer Mansour <samer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Kevin Grignon if you have spare time and experience in the area of design > > language and messaging your help would be really appreciated as I have > > limited experience in this area. If you have a cwiki account, I don't > mind > > if you alter the pages I've worked on. > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+Refresh+Project > > > > Andrea I'll try to populate the wiki better so that it leads into each > > design area and add more contact information and submission help so > > volunteers know how to subscribe to the marketing mailing list and post > > their proposals to the cwiki. Then we can blog saying we need designers > for > > ideas and to help implement. > > > > This is going to take me a few days, I'm really busy in the next day or > so. > > > > Samer > > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org > >wrote: > > > >> On 23/02/2013 Rob Weir wrote: > >> > >>> My advice: continue pushing the effort forward, but avoid the > >>> perception of exclusion that comes by specifying a hard deadline, > >>> especially a sudden one. The progress of AOO 4.0 will create its own > >>> practical deadline. > >>> > >> > >> And my advice (in addition to agreeing with Rob on this): get exposure. > >> > >> The text in > >> https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/** > >> Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+**Refresh+Project< > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+Refresh+Project > > > >> can be copied almost verbatim to a blog post that can generate > awareness, > >> traffic and involvement, and perhaps a few unusable submissions, but > also a > >> few good ones. > >> > >> Choosing a new logo is an occasion to get more attention on one hand, > and > >> a duty to inform current users on the other hand: we are changing a > >> well-known brand and this need proper communication. > >> > >> I've already written this, but it would be good to add to > >> https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/** > >> Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+**Refresh+Project< > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+Refresh+Project>(and > to the possible blog post) some contact information, possibly the > >> marketing or dev list. If you tweak the text so that it can be used as a > >> blog post, I can take care of posting it to > http://blogs.apache.org/OOo/ > >> > >> Regards, > >> Andrea. > >> > KG-01: I've added my logo submissions to the 4.0 logo concepts page. See: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.x+-+Logo+Explorations Regards, Kevin
