Andrea, I've populated some minimal how to participate info on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+Refresh+Project . Could you help with making that a blog post? Even if its short "Call For Designers" And a link to the above
Samer On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Samer Mansour <samer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Kevin Grignon if you have spare time and experience in the area of design > language and messaging your help would be really appreciated as I have > limited experience in this area. If you have a cwiki account, I don't mind > if you alter the pages I've worked on. > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+Refresh+Project > > Andrea I'll try to populate the wiki better so that it leads into each > design area and add more contact information and submission help so > volunteers know how to subscribe to the marketing mailing list and post > their proposals to the cwiki. Then we can blog saying we need designers for > ideas and to help implement. > > This is going to take me a few days, I'm really busy in the next day or so. > > Samer > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>wrote: > >> On 23/02/2013 Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> My advice: continue pushing the effort forward, but avoid the >>> perception of exclusion that comes by specifying a hard deadline, >>> especially a sudden one. The progress of AOO 4.0 will create its own >>> practical deadline. >>> >> >> And my advice (in addition to agreeing with Rob on this): get exposure. >> >> The text in >> https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/** >> Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+**Refresh+Project<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+Refresh+Project> >> can be copied almost verbatim to a blog post that can generate awareness, >> traffic and involvement, and perhaps a few unusable submissions, but also a >> few good ones. >> >> Choosing a new logo is an occasion to get more attention on one hand, and >> a duty to inform current users on the other hand: we are changing a >> well-known brand and this need proper communication. >> >> I've already written this, but it would be good to add to >> https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/** >> Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+**Refresh+Project<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+Refresh+Project>(and >> to the possible blog post) some contact information, possibly the >> marketing or dev list. If you tweak the text so that it can be used as a >> blog post, I can take care of posting it to http://blogs.apache.org/OOo/ >> >> Regards, >> Andrea. >> > >
