On 12/10/12 7:17 PM, Elvis Pukk wrote: > Hello, > I have tomorrow meeting with Estonian Academy of Arts ( > http://www.artun.ee/index.php?lang=eng) people regarding to the one design > project which I'm running. Cause I will meet with thesis supervisiors, > project managers, etc. I believe it is no problem to me ask if there is any > possibilities to involve students into this logo design project aswell!? Or > what the others think? >
it would be interesting to hear what they are thinking about such a project as part of their education/courses. Juergen > With best regards > Elvis > > Sent from my iPad > > On 10 Dec 2012, at 18:48, Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 ar >> - 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
