[advocacy-discuss] Logo colours ..+homepg grphx yearly contest

[Al Hopper]

On 3/20/08, Michelle Olson <michelle.olson at sun.com> wrote:
> Ceri Davies wrote:
>  > I'm not complaining either way; I just meant to make crystal clear that
>  > changing a logo underneath a community is a rather good way to upset
>  > everyone, even with apparent consensus and that if those who are proposing
>  > the change care about that, then it would definitely be possible to do
>  > this in a way that might minimise discontent, and suddenly announcing
>  > that Sun are paying for a new logo to be chosen Real Soon Now and "sorry
>  > but there's no time to ask anyone about it" would be a particularly bad
>  > way to foster community spirit.
>  >
>  > Ceri
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>  Agreed, well said as usual, Ceri. We are still learning here about how
                                                     ^^
Hi Michelle,

No disrespect intended - and you know that I'm a huge fan of the
outstanding work you do within the doc group (and elsewhere) .... but
.... what's up with the "We"?   OpenSolaris is about the individual
contributor and not about their company affiliation (or any other
affiliation).  I simply don't see why you say "We" above.  And I know
I trust your individual judgement and your talent to do outstanding
work that really makes  a difference.

So, please, don't use the (Royal) "we" and please don't align yourself
with Sun or any other corporation that you might be
affiliated/associated/employed with/by today.  Please show us the true
Michelle Olson that I got to talk with at the 2007 OpenSolaris Summit
- the Michelle Olson that is full of passion and truely dedicated to
OpenSolaris (the project) and everything OpenSolaris related.

>  'sudden announcements' play in a self-governing, but heavily
>  corporate-sponsored open source project such as ours. Sorta like an
>  easter egg :) Thanks for your continued effort to provide constructive
>  and complete feedback as we grow up, I appreciate your time to do so.
                                            ^^

>  And I appreciate your perspective from other projects that clearly plan
>  ahead, we do struggle with this.
>
>  A contest would be fun and we will have need for new graphics for the
>  front page in June for our third anniversary. Let's start that up right
>  now to give ourselves a couple of months to get creative. Here is the
>  info for the past several years of anniversary graphics contests:
>  http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/homepagegraphics/
>
>  We need helpers for the following to get going:
>
>  -It specifies the orange and blue colors, so if Dan and Glynn could
>  provide new specifics on colors as soon as possible, that would be useful.
>  -If someone with edit privileges could update the top of the
>  homepagegraphics page with a few words and change the left nav bar link
>  to Graphics 2008 that would get us off to a good start.
>  -We'll also need an owner to post the graphics that are submitted via
>  this mailing list.
>  -I'll volunteer to bring this to the editorial review board via the
>  website discuss list, so they can provide us any new committee process
>  steps, if needed.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Michelle

Regards,

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