On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Samer Mansour <samer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello AOO Dev and Marketing Community, > > The main subject of this e-mail is to call for an end date to proposals. > In 72hrs (saturday) we will be closing branding proposals. > Saturday seems to closeby I would think a week will be a good lead to give the chance to additional proposals. And late proposals as well. > > - - - - - > > I am heading up the branding effort for the AOO 4.0 release and we can > unanimously agree the 4.0 release will be a milestone for our community and > users. For this special release the marketing team is taking on the effort > to giving us a fresh look. > > The marketing team is starting to plot deadlines at the same time as the > dev team, the marketing team can't keep proposing ideas forever, we > actually need to do the work to get us there. Specially because some dev > efforts require assets from our designers. > > What does that mean? > - We're picking and choosing. Late submissions might not be considered > (just the nature of "just do it" sorry). > - Eliminating designs we don't like and smoothing and integrating ones we > do like. > - In a week from Saturday we will have a master proposal to present for > lazy consensus. (at least that's the plan) > > How can you help? > - - - - - > - I have design skills! (or I think!) > -> Check out some guidelines and placements of the branding, see children > of this cwiki page: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+Refresh+Project > -> Go to our wiki and sketch out some ideas here: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.x+-+Logo+Explorations > -> They don't have to be complete or polished ideas, ie. you only have > ideas for icons and only have 2 hours to create the proposal, capture the > main idea but don't worry about detail. > -> Join the marketing mailing list to help us with implementing the final > design: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/call_for_marketing_volunteers > > - I don't have design skills?! > -> Go to our wiki and help us by commenting on designs, DO NOT reply with > comments about design in these mailing lists. > -> There is about 10 pages and they all could use some feedback in the > comments: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+Refresh+Project > -> I will call for any final discussion on Saturday once the deadline has > passed. > > If you have any concerns about this process reply here. > > Do not reply to this e-mail to talk about designs! Go to the wiki and add > design comments there! > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org
