Hi everybody, During today's IRC meeting we concluded that the banner should be kept simple, like the one I attached in the previous email.
After a bit of research, I found out that banners are not the common medium used to convey ideas. They are mostly used to identify a place/store/stand. Even unknown/small brands in a trade fair have banners with just their name and logo. Their ideas are usually conveyed through other means such as the items on display or auxiliary advertising mediums such as roll-ups and posters. As such, we started discussing which sentence we should use bellow the logo. The original sentence I had was: > The Android distro that respects your freedom. Others have been proposed like: > The distribution that respects your freedom. Android smartphones don't. > No phone/tablet updates? Don't throw a brick in the wall! Free/liberate it > Android, with freedom. > Free/liberate your mobile. We mostly settled at: > Fully free Android distribution Though that may confuse a lot of people with the good old thing of free as in "freedom" vs free as in "free beer". Perhaps we should opt for: > Fully free software Android distribution or > The libre Android distro All these sentences are dull and boring. To counter that, GNUtoo had the nice idea of creating addons for the banner. Addons will be strips of paper that we can hang from the grommets on the lower side of the banner. They will act much like a MOTD or a roadside letter board. We can use them to add a joke or catchy sentence, and change it everyday of the conference. Examples are: > Hack your phone. > You can disable the modem! > Privacy is impossible without free software. Ideas for jokes and catchy sentences are welcomed. Another thing to consider, now that we are going minimal, is whether we should keep the phone mockup on the banner. I think we should keep it. It takes little space and adds a lot of context. On 05/12/2019 02:14, dllud wrote: > Hi Adonay, > > First all a big thanks for stepping in and help out on this. > > For those that want to follow, the long discussions about this are > happening on the #replicant IRC channel between me (dllud) and Adonay > (adfeno). > > After looking at the sketch bellow I had the following main comments: > - I instantly liked the phone mockup, which we can also re-use for the > flyers. > - I didn't like the arrangement. Doesn't feel/look ok, there's too much > white space, not very well distributed. > - I prefer a link instead of the QR code, mostly due to simplicity. > Replicant's URL is plain easy: replicant.us A QR code, besides making > our life harder in terms of space arrangement, comes with usability and > privacy concerns compared to the simple replicant.us URL. > > Afterwards we starting deconstructing the entire banner idea. On the > bottom line, what sets Replicant apart from all other Android distros is > neither Privacy or Security: it is Freedom. > We agreed that the main idea we want to convey is: > - "Hi there, dear visitor to this conference. Look here! We build an > Android distro with 100% free software. Come closer and check it running > on these phone we have on the table. Wanna try?" > > Following that line, I got into minimalism mode and prepared the version > that I am attaching. > > Comments welcomed. > > Regards, > David > > On 05/12/2019 00:39, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: >> Here follows an attempt to sketch a layout idea. The QR code points to >> Replicant webpage. I decided to put the QR code there since, the art >> being a banner, I suppose people may want to do quick check on what the >> project is and where it's organized, even if they may not stay at the >> event stand. >> >> The "freedom, security, privacy" was kept in the left side so as to >> direct the reader to "Replicant" (since I assume the target audience >> reads from left to right). >> >> Also, I assumed that the media canvas is white, so I left most of the >> background transparent. >> >> The .PNG is just for preview, not suitable to print as banner. >> >> What do you think?
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