On 2/5/13 7:31 AM, Samer Mansour wrote: > Picking a logo, hmmm. > > First part is dates. > We could find our dates by working backwards: > 1. When is the estimated release date of AOO4?
we currently focus on April/May but no exact dates planned yet because we have still many things to do. I expect a more detailed schedule later this month. > 2. When do we need to have a logo picked (consider time to integrate). I would say we should focus on end of February. Keep in mind that we need final design work after we picked a proposal, need icons, app logo, banner logo etc. > 3. When do we need to start a final vote. aligned with 2. > 4. If/When do we need a preliminary/elimination vote. not sure if this is needed at all > 5. When is proposal deadline. > Consider how much time for each of the above steps, advertise the schedule > so that everyone voting knows when voting will occur and won't miss it. > > Second part is voting: > How do we pick a logo by voting: > - We could do rounds of elimination voting. Like American Idol, the > weakest X number of logo gets eliminated. You can then vote again on the > next round for a logo that survived if your first logo pick did not. > - Who gets to vote? Help me on this one, I'm newb, is it all the mailing > lists? Dev list, etc. one person a vote. good question, we can run of course several rounds but I wouldn't do too many. But I am flexible > > Third part is criteria: > - What are the minimum criteria for the logo. > - What are the constraints of the logo, if any, ie. technical. at least free and proper licensed font I personally would keep the blue as our preferred color to demonstrate continuity. We should keep in mind that a logo that can be used for different merchandising material has some advantages. > > From the sounds of it, we were not proposing finished work at this point in > time. Still a lot of bouncing ideas, I do feel like our designs are > beginning to conform to a higher than all of us design from our feedbacks. > Maybe voting will be easy, who knows. I'm optimistic here. In general I would recommend to select one of the proposals until end of February and target the final bits until end of March. Integration should take not too long and we can test it afterwards in detail. > > Feedback is welcome, specially in areas like voting. We can start > populating this, such as dates. thanks for driving this forward. A new fresh design with keeping some of the former elements or colors is a good move. We don't need a radical new design, a refresh is perfect form my point of view. Juergen > > Samer > > On Feb 4, 2013 6:11 AM, "Jürgen Schmidt" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2/1/13 6:03 PM, Kadal Amutham wrote: >>> I have edited the wiki , giving numbers to all the logos. So all of us > can >>> have a look and vote as follows giving the ranking. Kinldy use alphabets >>> for ranking meaning A as the best, B next one and Z the last. >> >> before we start voting on the logos I would suggest that we define some >> basic rules and a timeline (when to start, how long the vote is open >> etc.). We have some very interesting and good proposals but in the end >> only one can make it. We should also consider a complete brand, means a >> proposal that can be applied everywhere (logo, file icons and app icon, >> webpage, intro, about, ...) >> >> Just my opinion >> >> Juergen >
