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

[Michelle Olson]

Al Hopper wrote:
> 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
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>                                                      ^^
> 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.
>   
Hi Al,

Thanks for your feedback, no disrespect taken! Don't read so much into 
it, I was just a bit tired, that's all. I think I used another dirty 
word in a different post on another list later yesterday...  the 'true 
me' is truly flawed. But, what do you say about the contest? Someone 
suggested a short run of T's for the winning graphic, what do you think 
about that? :)

Thanks,
Michelle
>   
>>  '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,
>
>