On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:12 PM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 13:58 -0500, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> > A month ago Drew sent a logo proposal to the ooo-marketing list. It >> > has been discussed and iterated on that list. The current state of >> > the proposal is on the wiki: >> > >> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOOLogo+proposal >> > >> > Personally I think this is fine work, and since we've received no >> > counter-proposals in the last month, we should go ahead and update the >> > splash screen and website with the new logo. That's my opinion. >> > However, others have suggested we take a RTC approach to this. So be >> > it. >> > >> > Please review the logo proposal on the above wiki page. If you have a >> > counter proposal now, or if you intend to make a counter-proposal but >> > need more time, then please speak up. But if there are no other >> > proposals, then we have lazy consensus. >> > >> >> We now have more than one logo proposal. So I'll withdraw my proposal >> to move forward with Drew's logo (the only one we had at the time). >> >> Would it be worth at this point, having a public call for proposals on >> the logo? Maybe advertise with a blog post? Give a month or two to >> collect responses, then we vote? > > Howdy Rob, > > Well, my last email to you I think was the one saying I thought the logo > change on the website should hold of till a Developer Snapshot build had > the same graphic change..so of course I agree, it would not hurt to try > and gather further proposals. > > Ok - how long? Let me flip it around, how long do you think before there > would be a binary download available from the developer snapshot link on > the website? How much run up time do you want for the graphics files for > that build? (that can pretty darn slim, can't it) >
I assume you mean this page: http://www.openoffice.org/download/next/ It is something we need to discuss. That website, as we've discussed before, is intended to be user facing, as compared to the podling site which is more project/PPMC facing. We need to be careful about putting code out on the user-facing site before we've actually have an IPMC release. We need to avoid making it look like a release by another name. Maybe instead we only advertise dev snapshots on the podling page? And keep it very low key. In any case, I think we are very close to having regular dev-provided snapshots builds. (We have irregular builds already) But I'm not sure how much longer before we have regular automated builds on all platforms. But I look at it more like this -- now that we're past the holidays, how long would it take a volunteer, with a busy life outside of Apache, to put together a logo proposal if they had an interest in doing so? It seems to me that 2-3 weeks is sufficient. > From that last question I'd gauge the answer for how long to wait for > proposals. > > Best wishes, > > //drew >> >> If we did that, we'd probably want to start with some logo >> requirements first, things like: >> >> -- Must say Apache OpenOffice (TM) >> -- Must include "incubating" >> -- Must be in SVG format >> -- Must be readable in both color and monochrome >> -- Must be available in the following sizes >> -- Must use freely available fonts >> >> (Those are examples only. We might drop, modify or add similar >> requirements. The point is we probably want to encourage proposals to >> conform to a set of branding and technical requirements) >> >> >> -Rob >> >> > Considering that some project members may still be on vacation, I'd >> > like to leave this open for another full week. >> > >> > -Rob >> > >
