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

[Derek Cicero]

Michelle Olson 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 
> '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/

Excellent idea!

I think colors and such are staying the same for .org, so the colors 
shown there are correct.

The actual font for the OS logo (and for poll(2)) are a Sun font, so if 
you don't have it you can send your submissions to me as a layered 
PSD/PNG and I can swap it out.

We'll need to change the submission dates as well, maybe plan to end the 
contest right before the summit?

Derek


> 
> 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
> 
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Derek Cicero
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