[osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] Community graphics for home page

[Sara Dornsife]

The reason we went with such a tight deadline was so that the home page 
didn't sit blank for too long. Any ideas there? I understand what you 
are saying.
Sara


Martin Man wrote:
> Hi Sara,
> 
> given the holiday time, I simply think 7th of August is a very tight 
> deadline to get some meaningful results we can later vote on, would you 
> mind extending the submission deadline to the end of August?
> 
> just my .2 cents,
> Martin (who tries to do some graphic from time to time and knows how 
> time consuming it is)
> 
> P.S. making the tiemline so short will not press people in producing the 
> logo fast, it will merely make them produce non-quality logos or not 
> participate at all
> 
> Sara Dornsife wrote On 2006-07-31 23:46,:
>> We've concluded our first year. We've celebrated our anniversary. Now 
>> we need a new graphic banner for the opensolaris.org website. Anyone 
>> who would like to contribute artwork can by sending it in email to 
>> website DASH discuss AT opensolaris.org. You can see what we've used 
>> so far at 
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/homepagegraphics/ in 
>> case you missed them.
>>
>> All submissions must be in by midnight PT Monday August 7th. 
>> Selections will be made by by the OpenSolaris web team on Tuesday 
>> August 8th and posted by Wednesday August 9th.
>>
>> The only things that we request of any submission:
>> - is original artwork to avoid any possible copyright issues
>> - contains the OpenSolaris wordmark colors (Orange: #E76F00, Blue: 
>> #5382A1)
>> - is no bigger than: 500x 200 pixels
>> - does NOT contain the OpenSolaris wordmark
>> - is in PNG, GIF or JPG formats
>>
>> New artwork will be up from 6 - 12 months or, if we have a lot of 
>> submissions, we can circulate them.
>>
>> Sara
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