The comments and ideas under the widesperad interest part of the thread are heading in a direction that gets my support.
Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan with The Vital Portal Alphonso Whitfield [email protected] Vital 912-816-2595 Skype: vital.i.net Visit us at: The Vital Portal The Vital Portal On facebook Visit our Google Community Join our Vital Portal Webinars at: The Vital Portal WebEx Meeting Center . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Junge" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 7:11:46 PM Subject: Re: Xmass is gone what's next. On 1/7/2013 2:09 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]> wrote: >> Unfortunately we didnt act for 2013 new years eve (something to >> consider for next year) we could ask for 2014 graphics already. :) >> >> So what's next, next major celebration or just return to the >> traditional logo and look forward on bigger tasks like the new theme. >> > > What else has widespread interest? > > 1. Chinese Lunar New Year, February 10th, but is really a multi-day > holiday in countries that observe it. 2013 is the "Year of the Snake" That would be really great because we have a large Chinese community. How about merging the Orb Logo with a Chinese lantern? > > 2. March 20th, First Day of Spring That's getting too much. > > 3. March 27th, Document Freedom Day Certainly. > > 4. May 22nd, 200th birthday of Richard Wagner (add Viking horns to the logo?) Apart form that Guiseppe Verdi was born in the same year in October and Wikipedia lists over 900 other persons who were born that year and what bout 1863, 1913 and 1963? That might be getting out of bounds. > > 5. June 15-30 FIFA Confederations Cup (turn logo into a ball?) I would only consider Olympic games when it comes to sports, maybe also FIFA World Championships and other events of that size. > > It depends on how often we want to change the logo. Not too often. Peter > > >> I have been thinking about using free fonts from OpenFontLibrary to >> theme our site which currently used a bit of a traditional fonts. One >> of my fonts are Junction, Didact Gothic. Confortaa >> http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/junction >> http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/didact-gothic >> http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/comfortaa >> >> As far as colors, I think we need more colors and change the design of >> the menus. Get rid of the top bar, side bar and embrace a more >> vectorial and modern feel to it. Things like landing sites that are >> more scroll intensive and less compartamentalize. >> >> Looking at Gnome.org Mozilla.org Calligra-Suite.org and KDE.org this >> seems to be the case. So I guess a first layout of these would be a >> good way to start talking about the future of the site. >> > > I also think we would benefit from a redesign of the website look & > feel. IMHO what we have today is too "busy". > > -Rob > >> >> -- >> Alexandro Colorado >> PPMC Apache OpenOffice >> http://es.openoffice.org
