Perhaps this could be turned around. What if we put some requirements
around producing a special logo (what type of events qualified, lead
time for proposing and producing a modified logo, quality and licensing
requirements for the modified logo). Then if there was enough interest
we could have some fun with the AOO logo much like the Google Doodle.
The requirement might be discussion and consensus of the marketing list,
with notification to dev (and the possibility of higher decision)
Part of the requirements might be a blog entry about the subject of the
logo and it's relationship to AOO (with the logo linking to the blog entry)
A.
On 1/7/2013 4:11 PM, Peter Junge wrote:
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
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Alexandro Colorado
PPMC Apache OpenOffice
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