Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-07 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Sebastian, On 7 Jun 2009, at 14:37, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi all, looking at the wiki page, I'm really impressed - great work! :) I also really like the idea of switching the logo color for each release - this shouldn't be hard and is an interesting approach. Has there already

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-07 Thread Sean DALY
Yes Gary by all means, the deadline is this weekend Sebastian, earlier in the thread we discussed how part of keeping a clean-looking boot involves getting more information (logos) on the About My Computer page, is that difficult to do? Sean On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Gary C

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo Christian - I myself prefer the rays to dots which I feel too closely resemble networks in the Neighborhood view, confusion is possible (networks being connected to at startup?) Fred - I'm willing to try that sunrise metaphor, tonight if I

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:24:26PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo Christian - I myself prefer the rays to dots which I feel too closely resemble networks in the Neighborhood view, confusion is possible (networks being connected to at startup?)

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jun 2009, at 12:24, Sean DALY wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo Christian - I myself prefer the rays to dots which I feel too closely resemble networks in the Neighborhood view, confusion is possible (networks being connected to at startup?) Coloured dots

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Christian Marc Schmidt
Sorry, meant to reply-all! Comment below: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:24:26PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo Christian - I myself prefer the rays to dots which I feel

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt christianm...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, meant to reply-all! Comment below: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:24:26PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Eben Eliason
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo Christian - I myself prefer the rays to dots which I feel too closely resemble networks in the Neighborhood view, confusion is possible (networks being connected to at

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Christian Marc Schmidt
I agree with Eben's points below... Maybe it would help if one of us mocked up the alternative he is describing? Christian On Jun 4, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
Yes that would be very helpful I think If we can reach consensus by tomorrow and finish the actual PNG frames over the weekend we will meet the deadline but, we need a volunteer to do the frames (unless Gary what you have is nearly ready; my stuff is cut/pasted mockup no color control etc)

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Eben Eliason
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo Christian - I

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jun 2009, at 15:45, Sean DALY wrote: Yes that would be very helpful I think I was just going to start tinkering again, I'll make an animated version of Eben's XO and progress-bar for evaluation. If we can reach consensus by tomorrow and finish the actual PNG frames over the weekend we

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread David Farning
58 posts in this thread and climbing:) I think that is a new Sugar Labs record. The results are looking great and getting better everyday. david On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
Eben - it's not clear how many frames the plymouth boot sequencer needs or allows; it seems possible that (similar to animated GIFs) a frame duration can be set for some parts of the sequence, while others are related to the booting itself. Even the frame size may be variable; I've been using the

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 16:35, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo Christian - I myself

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jun 2009, at 16:35, Gary C Martin wrote: On 4 Jun 2009, at 15:45, Sean DALY wrote: Yes that would be very helpful I think I was just going to start tinkering again, I'll make an animated version of Eben's XO and progress-bar for evaluation. Just uploaded an animated version showing

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
Flavors - now that's a horse of a different color :D Yes, it may yet help us - the whole point of beta and v1 of SoaS was to simplify the arcane mysterious Sugar Labs / OLPC version numbering system :-) Sean On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Jun

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
Actually the logo color linked to a version idea was in my long mail the other day about communicating the version :-) I too think 2 changes a year will give us time to cycle through the twelve variants. To make that work, the actual place where the version number is communicated (Control Panel

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread Frederick Grose
2) seemed odd for the dots to appear from 6 o'clock to 6 o'clock (12 to 12 feels more natural to me) I like the clock metaphor, with the boot up process rising like the sun, building upon itself, and then closing the ring to present a complete system. (I guess some of us start our day at

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread Walter Bender
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] For Sugar, the new Hello World tutorial could be its boot Activities for Learners:  Each development tool (Pippy, Turtle Art, Etoys, others, even Forth) should provide an Activity to build the start-up sequence. 

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Gary C Martin wrote: On 30 May 2009, at 18:50, Walter Bender wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] For Sugar, the new Hello World tutorial could be its boot Activities for Learners: Each development tool (Pippy, Turtle Art, Etoys, others,

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread Sean DALY
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc//rpms/plymouth/F-11/plymouth.spec?view=markup found this snippet: snip * Thu Oct 23 2008 Ray Strode rstrode at redhat.com 0.6.0-0.2008.10.23.1 - Add patch from Charlie to align progress bar to milestones during boot up /snip this article has useful info:

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread Sean DALY
I understand the plymouth boot animator is specific to Fedora, but that other distros are interested in adapting it. At base our work is just a series of consecutively numbered PNG files Sean On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread Sean DALY
ah, found the mailing list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/plymouth/ On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: I understand the plymouth boot animator is specific to Fedora, but that other distros are interested in adapting it. At base our work is just a