This is all volunteer right? I'm in NYC and I think even getting an industrial design student will be no easy thing to do - for no pay even though this would be a big portfolio piece. I think the competition idea maybe the best idea just so nobody gets hurt if their work isn't chosen.
- I do strongly suggest the daily digest. - I'm really only interested in working on the media aspect if that's okay. I'm not a programmer or designer. All I suggest is do something much different unless keeping Apache similar to M.Office is the goal. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > -- Respectfully, - Paul
