On 22 April 2013 17:48, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > we are moving forward to the next release and if we want have a new logo > > as part of this release we have to push the necessary work. > > > > It will require some work to integrate a new logo, new icons etc. in the > > release. I would like to propose a deadline of May 17th for a final new > > logo. If we can't agree on a new one we will move forward with the old > > one and move the logo UI refresh to 4.1. > > > > I believe we all want a new logo ready for AOO 4.0 and if we really want > > to achieve this goal, we have to move forward quite fast now. So let us > > focus on a decision here asap that we can start with the further work on > > file icons, app icons... > > > > We still have a lot of work in front of us to fix existing issues, > > implement the last missing bits and to stabilize the code. The logo is > > only one part and we can move this to later as well. More important is > > that we agree on something really nice and that we can use for some time > > in the future to improve our brand recognition. Our existing orb logo is > > of course not bad and we can continue with it as well if we don't find a > > better one. Maybe simply a refresh of the existing one is a good move > > for now. A new source graphic (svg) + an open source font. > > > > What is our expectation or guess when we will have something where we > > can work with? > > > > > > It would be easy put a poll up on http://survey.openoffice.org to gather > feedback on the current proposals. I started to investigate what would be > required to do this. A few challenges I ran into: > That is a real super idea. And if we can group the responses (users, designers....)
> > 1) It is not obvious what the proposals actually are. We have have many > nice designs, but they are on different wiki pages, e.g.,: > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.x+-+Logo+Explorations > > But also subpages of: > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4+-+Complete+Design+Proposals > Is it possible to collect all the active proposals and put them direct in the survey...if it gets too many, we can make a preselection round ? > > 2) Several designs posted many small variations on the same base idea. Do > we want to poll all of them or have the designer pick a representative one? > I would suggest that the respective designers forward their final proposal in max. 2 variants. > > 3) Some designs are pure "logo" like what we would put on the website. > Others are more elaborate treatments, something appropriate for the splash > screen. In some cases the designer provided both, but sometimes only one. > What exactly do we want to poll? > the new logo must be useable all over...from documentation to code. > > 4) The designs are all presented in different sizes. Unless we resize > things to similar size the poll itself would be quite ugly. I could resise > the bitmaps of course, but that could lead to lower quality compared to the > designer rendering it from their original. > If you set a size, and we ask the designers to provide that...would that work ? > > In any case, I'm happy to set up the poll, but I need to know what exactly > we are polling. > I am still the opinion...that we need to select a "complete" logo, meaning a "thing" we can use for all our activities...and that is what we should poll for. Depending on the amount it might be an idea to do a preselect poll. > > Note: this would not be a "vote". I was thinking of just showing each of > the logos and then asking the viewer to rate each one on a scale of 1 to > 10. Then we can focus on refining the choice(s) that rate highest. > +1 rgds Jan I. > > -Rob > > > > > Juergen > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > >
