Met with Elaine Chapin from Red Hat's Creative team today about getting some help with POSSE design - they (Elaine, John, and Mary) are totally awesome and excited about it, and will be giving us a bunch of help later this spring. Thank you, Elaine! Notes follow.
Since the Creative folks are trying to do all non-Summit projects after Summit + subsequent recovery (the big Red Hat Summit conference in Boston at the start of May is a gigantic, gigantic thing for the Creative/Brand teams every year, as you might imagine) we'll do a proper kickoff meeting for the branding/visuals on this after May 18. Once the redesign is complete and we have a final POSSE logo, we'll hand the logo off to Pam Chestek from Red Hat Legal so she can get us a trademark on it. Thank you, Pam! The design project will entail: * taking a look at branding, and confirming/rearticulating with us what we want POSSE to 'be' * logo tweaks to match the brand we want (not big modifications, but maybe things like choosing fonts more deliberately) * font family recommendations for materials we're creating * header & footer graphics for POSSE material print pages (to be inserted into our already-existing-at-that-point-in-time LaTeX template by Emily) That's pretty straightforward and very doable, so if there's time, we'll also: * make a printed-POSSE-materials book cover design (simple full-page color graphic so when we print & spiral-bind the worksheets with that on top, it'll look all spiffy) * create a little POSSE teaser-postcard layout for distribution at events like OSCON (like the teachingopensource.org "business cards" we're handing out at SIGCSE, only better-looking) * update the header graphic & font choice on the various POSSE webpages up at that time to match the choices made above This will all be done well in advance of the July 23-24 POSSE Basics class, so people coming to Raleigh will get the new shiny stuff. :) We'll keep you posted (release early, release often) on progress between mid-May and then. Oh - and yes, we're using open tools, fonts, formats, etc. :) So we'll probably use the Liberation font family and so forth... everything will be remixable and happy. Many, many thanks to John, Elaine, Mary, and Pam for their patience and help and expertise, and to the whole TOS community for all their feedback so far - it's exciting to watch POSSE grow up. So yep - we'll hear back more on this post-May-18th, and... see where it goes from there. --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
