On 8 February 2018 at 12:16, Allan Day <[email protected]> wrote: > Replying selectively... > > Ekaterina Gerasimova <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> There was already one in the US when I was on the board, what's happened to >> it? >> >> https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Box/NorthAmerica > > As far as I know, Emily still has it. This has been discussed at > various points while I've been on the board and I'm not entirely sure > what the current status is. It's possible that we decided that the box > is too big to be practical, but I might be wrong about that.
I think that box is the same size as the smaller European box. If there was a size issue, then it would make sense to have a critical look at what it would be used for and how it would be transported. e.g. if it's always transported by someone rather than shipped, then a smaller suitcase could work, but contents would be restricted to pretty much laptop and stickers. If the box will be shipped, my recommendation after having gone through 4 cases is to go for heavy duty ones because while they are heavy, they won't need to be replaced every year. > ... >>> By the way, what color banner are you planning on buying? Since the >>> Foundation color is green and the project color is blue, we have been >>> encouraging people to try to go for blue when getting banners and things for >>> booths. This isn't a formal policy of course and it'd be great to hear your >>> thoughts on this. >> >> Our table cloth is green because we wanted to use the Foundation >> colour. The roller banner is blue. One of the old banners is green and >> the other is blue. As we're next to the KDE stand, if we have only >> blue banners, we blend in too much and it looks weird. Also, we do >> represent the Foundation rather than just the project at FOSDEM. i.e. >> we talk about the Foundaiton and the work that it does, we've signed >> people up for FoG before, etc. I don't know how much this is the case >> at other events though. > > I'd like to encourage people to use the colours in the draft brand > guidelines. There was a fair amount of work put into these, and it's > important that we use consistent branding wherever possible. The best we can do for banners is to vaguelly match the colours anyway unless we go for printing services which are ~2 or more times as expensive. As they get a lot of use, it's not economical to compromise on quality. >>> For print outs, we are trying to have more of a consistent brand. To help >>> with that we have these draft brand guidelines for designers: >>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/brand/style-guide.png >>> and >>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/brand/style-examples.png >> >> Can these please be moved to GNOME infrastructure? It's weird that our >> official branding guidelines are not hosted by us. > > The fact that they're in Github is probably down to two factors: > > 1. Github is where we keep source files and in-development work for design > 2. While I would like to encourage people to follow the guidelines, > they're still a bit rough in places and need to be finished. Once > that's happened we'll probably have a PDF on GNOME infrastructure > somewhere. > > There are various historical reasons for 1, including technical > limitations of GNOME infrastructure. With the shift to Gitlab those > might be resolved, and we're experimenting with using it for future > design work. > > Allan _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
