Hi marketing volunteers, great to see so many new volunteers here. Today I have a call for active participation and would like to invite you all to think how you can help here.
We have already talked about some rebranding of OpenOffice for AOO 4.0 which is targeted for next year (March, April). There was already the idea of a branding contest (see https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Brand+Contest+RFP) but I don't know for sure the current status of this. But I know that we have to start the work now if we want to achieve something for the release. The questions are - what exactly do we want achieve for the release and in the product (eg. logo, intro screen, mime type icons, application icons for desktop integration, ....) - who take care of what - how can we move forward - timelines - .... I am personally not the best person for this tasks and can mainly support on a technical level. But I would like to share some ideas. ~30 million downloads of AOO at the end of the year since April is an impressive number. And 700K page hits on our website as well. I was thinking that it could be a good reference for professional designers, art schools) to be involved here in some way. Designing a new logo, or do some icon work (a high professional and consistent icon set for such an application is no trivial task), intro screen etc. that is seen by million of users or visitors of the website can be very motivating. Does anybody of you have contacts to designers or art school that do such industrial design for software products? Of do you have the skills? Anyway the idea is to promote the work later on in some prominent places and blog about it... Let us start to define the requirements and the timeline in more detail and let us start working on it. The time is running ;-) Juergen
