wow Gary you were up all night on that Yes by all means back on list
I really like the logo cycling through our colors, it's a "golden rule" of marketing to not change logo colors and we break it with panache (each press release PDF has a different color theme too) i want to mock up with kid avatars around Activity icons I build animated GIFs the old-fashioned imagemagick way: $ convert -delay 20 progress-*.png animation.gif I'll upload something today thanks Sean On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Gary C Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Just to get a basic, safe, default starting point in there, I've uploaded > one simple treatment to: > > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo#Sugar_Boot_Logo_Animations > > Will try to upload a couple more tomorrow. > > Night, > --Gary > > P.S. Should pull this back on list, your call Sean, but probably worth > getting a couple more ideas up so that folks can input to some alternative > treatments. > > On 30 May 2009, at 00:58, Sean DALY wrote: > >> Christian, Eben >> >> I'm not sure if you are on sugar-devel but this is I think an >> outstanding opportunity for Sugar branding, "celebrating" Sugar >> interface.iconography and greeting children. >> >> I know nothing about the plymouth boot animator, but i deduce that >> consecutively named files will do the trick >> >> I'm willing to attack this but before I try scraping screenshots, do >> you guys have any interface assets i could grab? >> >> Input greatly appreciated >> >> thanks >> >> Sean >> >> >> >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Maybe we could work on it together? >>> >>> here's my idea.... like my booth rollup banner mockup which Christian >>> 7 Eben both liked, I want to stay as much as possible within the Sugar >>> HIG and iconography. >>> >>> >>> boot should start with our logo ... smaller than in the previous SoaS >>> ... (not sure yet if should be with or without "labs") >>> >>> The ring is iconic ... I want to keep a ring at boot... but instead of >>> dots, I want XO avatars - kids! >>> >>> In the middle... each succeeding image with a colored Activity icon... >>> matched to the corresponding XO avatar appearing in the ring. So kids >>> understand that Activities are for them. >>> >>> And ending with... kids around the Journal! >>> >>> Alternate idea: cycling through the 12 logo color combos? >>> >>> Not mutually exclusive... logo could be on the bottom of ring >>> >>> What do you think? >>> >>> thanks >>> >>> Sean >>> >>> P.S. I've actually done something similar with a titling sequence for >>> a short film. I started with the final image and wiped elements, >>> backing down to the first image >>> >>> I use imagemagick a lot no problem to create a script which could >>> inject arbitrary text into a ppm file >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Gary C Martin <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Sean, >>>> FYI, this came in off list. >>>> Regards, >>>> --G >>>> >>>> Begin forwarded message: >>>> >>>> From: James Zaki <[email protected]> >>>> Date: 29 May 2009 22:24:06 BST >>>> To: Gary C Martin <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen >>>> I'm in touch with a design company who owes me a favour or two. >>>> >>>> I could get them to whip up some concept designs for inspiration? >>>> >>>> James >>>> >>>> >>>> 2009/5/29 Gary C Martin <[email protected]> >>>>> >>>>> On 29 May 2009, at 21:37, Sean DALY wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Sebastian, Gary >>>>>> >>>>>> I'd like to take a stab at it, I've actually had an idea brewing for >>>>>> awhile >>>>> >>>>> Cool, shout if you need extra hands/review. >>>>> >>>>> --G >>>>> >>>>>> What's the deadline please? >>>>>> >>>>>> thanks >>>>>> Sean >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Gary C Martin >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 29 May 2009, at 18:41, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi folks, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> sorry for the short notice, but this is rather urgent. I've been >>>>>>>> spending yesterday afternoon to update the packages in our SoaS Yum >>>>>>>> repo >>>>>>>> to reflect the changes for Fedora 11. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> As it turned out, the plymouth package has been partly rewritten, >>>>>>>> and I >>>>>>>> was wondering (also with regard to #709), how we wanted to deal >>>>>>>> with a >>>>>>>> new boot screen. For now, I've just implemented the old Sugar logo >>>>>>>> again, but we might also want to have something more shiny (probably >>>>>>>> with a progress bar). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Some form of progress indicator would be a useful addition. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm not really that good at art and the Sugar logo thing there was >>>>>>>> at >>>>>>>> first nothing more than a quick hack, so it'd would be really >>>>>>>> great if >>>>>>>> someone could have a look and work on such a boot screen. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm happy to give it a look/shot from a graphics point of view if no >>>>>>> one else steps forward. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So. When did you need it by? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> OLPC is currently doing the same for their 1.5 software release, >>>>>>>> which >>>>>>>> gives us a good possibility to have a look at the file structure: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/~halfline/olpc.tar.bz2 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Please let me know if there's anything I can help with. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm new to plymouth, but looking at the content of olpc.tar.bz2 it >>>>>>> seems simple. My main question is where should I look for the config >>>>>>> that describes which images get loaded in what order. Perhaps the >>>>>>> names just conform to some hardcoded protocol? How about the location >>>>>>> of corner-image.png, perhaps hardcoded again? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm just downloading your latest Soas build so will have a dig in >>>>>>> there to see what you have done already – I'm just wondering if this >>>>>>> is really as easy as generating a bunch of png files with the correct >>>>>>> file names :-) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>> --Gary >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>> --Sebastian >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) 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