2012/11/29 Bryen M Yunashko :

On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 22:35 +0100, Victor hck wrote:

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2012/11/28 Victor hck :

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Hi all !!

I have made a new draft for the banner after de 5th of December, that will be when the elections will start... you can check it out here: - http://paste.opensuse.org/29331071

bye...

Another draft for that day: - http://paste.opensuse.org/77036399

Bye!!

I am liking this second one very much. It adds a bit of mystery that will hopefully generate good attention and chatter out there about the elections.

I'd like to recommend changing the background though. It is too similar to the current one we are using and people might not notice the change when we update the banners next week around the web.

I'd go for a darker, more mysterious (but not scary) color (whatever that is.) Something that draws people in and they feel the need to click on the banner and learn more about what's happening in openSUSE Project. It should be suspenseful because that's exactly the feeling that happens in any election.

Also, size is a challenge on the current banner. Can we make something that fits 850x315px? (That's facebook timeline cover size) and should work well for the other sites. We reduced the size of the current banners and that degraded some quality. (Sorry!) :-)

Many thanks Victorhck!

Bryen M Yunashko

here's a new draft for banner: http://paste.opensuse.org/82312094 with red background and a invitation to vote! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

Am 29.11.2012 20:43, schrieb Victor hck:

2012/11/29 Bryen M Yunashko :

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On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 22:35 +0100, Victor hck wrote:

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2012/11/28 Victor hck :

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Hi all !!

I have made a new draft for the banner after de 5th of December, that will be when the elections will start... you can check it out here: - http://paste.opensuse.org/29331071

bye...

Another draft for that day: - http://paste.opensuse.org/77036399

Bye!!

I am liking this second one very much. It adds a bit of mystery that will hopefully generate good attention and chatter out there about the elections.

I'd like to recommend changing the background though. It is too similar to the current one we are using and people might not notice the change when we update the banners next week around the web.

I'd go for a darker, more mysterious (but not scary) color (whatever that is.) Something that draws people in and they feel the need to click on the banner and learn more about what's happening in openSUSE Project. It should be suspenseful because that's exactly the feeling that happens in any election.

Also, size is a challenge on the current banner. Can we make something that fits 850x315px? (That's facebook timeline cover size) and should work well for the other sites. We reduced the size of the current banners and that degraded some quality. (Sorry!) :-)

Many thanks Victorhck!

Bryen M Yunashko

here's a new draft for banner: http://paste.opensuse.org/82312094

with red background and a invitation to vote!

Could we agree to use the official Bento colors? http://en.opensuse.org/Help:Theme Greets Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 21:06 +0100, Marcus Moeller wrote:

Am 29.11.2012 20:43, schrieb Victor hck:

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2012/11/29 Bryen M Yunashko :

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On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 22:35 +0100, Victor hck wrote:

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2012/11/28 Victor hck :

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Hi all !!

I have made a new draft for the banner after de 5th of December, that will be when the elections will start... you can check it out here: - http://paste.opensuse.org/29331071

bye...

Another draft for that day: - http://paste.opensuse.org/77036399

Bye!!

I am liking this second one very much. It adds a bit of mystery that will hopefully generate good attention and chatter out there about the elections.

I'd like to recommend changing the background though. It is too similar to the current one we are using and people might not notice the change when we update the banners next week around the web.

I'd go for a darker, more mysterious (but not scary) color (whatever that is.) Something that draws people in and they feel the need to click on the banner and learn more about what's happening in openSUSE Project. It should be suspenseful because that's exactly the feeling that happens in any election.

Also, size is a challenge on the current banner. Can we make something that fits 850x315px? (That's facebook timeline cover size) and should work well for the other sites. We reduced the size of the current banners and that degraded some quality. (Sorry!) :-)

Many thanks Victorhck!

Bryen M Yunashko

here's a new draft for banner: http://paste.opensuse.org/82312094

with red background and a invitation to vote!

Could we agree to use the official Bento colors?

http://en.opensuse.org/Help:Theme

Greets Marcus

I believe victorhck used the background from 12.2 for the "Meet the candidates" banner that we have up and running now. (see www.opensuse.org if you haven't seen it yet.) I wanted something that was noticably different when we update the banner next week with the new banner. If you could help with some of the colors, that'd be great. I'm not sure I'm wild about the red that victorhck is using now, but I'm no color coordinator. :-) Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

Hi again,

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Alternatively you can make use of elements of the current release artwork, but imho for things like that it's > better to have something more generic.

sorry for my english... I didn't understand that...

And yes, I used the official background of openSUSE 12.2, and with the last one I just turn in red...

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Could we agree to use the official Bento colors?

I'm agree with the logo, but with red background the official logo looks very bad, so I turn a bit darker... and with the rest colours, well sometimes is good to shake a bit the rules!! ;)

And here are the .xfc files and pictures of candidates if anyone else wanna play!! ;)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ea5c2w7gpp6mqfn/FgzXe0AOAP

Here you are ;) http://marcusmoeller.ch/share/oS/misc/board_members.png Greets Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

Hi Victor.

Maybe the pics of the members just a bit bigger? There's a lot empty and not used space in the banner... and the 2 Mr. unkonw members maybe a bit smaller?

just my opinion...

I have tried to put the message into the front. That's why I decided to keep the images relatively small. Greets Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

Am 30.11.2012 18:52, schrieb Raymond Wooninck:

On Friday 30 November 2012 18:47:48 Marcus Moeller wrote:

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Maybe the pics of the members just a bit bigger? There's a lot empty and not used space in the banner... and the 2 Mr. unkonw members maybe a bit smaller?

just my opinion...

I have tried to put the message into the front. That's why I decided to keep the images relatively small.

I believe that it would be indeed better to put all the pictures together. At this moment it looks like that the board has two sides. Especially since that Vincent Untz (Gnome) is on one side and Will Stephenson (KDE) is on the other side. Maybe a bit far fetched, but we might want to prevent some strange thoughts on this one ? Especially since that one board candidate already indicated to bring the Gnome and KDE teams closer together.

If you manage to do this in real life, too ;) Anyhow, there is no problem in changing the position: http://marcusmoeller.ch/share/oS/misc/board_members.xcf Select the lower layer and move the objects around as you like. Feel free to publish the results here. Greets Marcus Greets Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

Am 30.11.2012 19:12, schrieb Raymond Wooninck:

On Friday 30 November 2012 19:06:55 Marcus Moeller wrote:

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Am 30.11.2012 18:52, schrieb Raymond Wooninck:

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I believe that it would be indeed better to put all the pictures together. At this moment it looks like that the board has two sides. Especially since that Vincent Untz (Gnome) is on one side and Will Stephenson (KDE) is on the other side. Maybe a bit far fetched, but we might want to prevent some strange thoughts on this one ? Especially since that one board candidate already indicated to bring the Gnome and KDE teams closer together.

If you manage to do this in real life, too ;)

I believe that both teams have already proven this during the current development cycle. Both teams collaborated excellent on getting both KDE and Gnome ConsoleKit free. At this moment I don't think that there is any rivalness between the two teams.

Have you seen the ;) ? Another thing we should target towards: If you don't know that (yet/anymore): Have a lot of fun! Greets Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

On Friday 30 November 2012 19:22:45 Marcus Moeller wrote:

Have you seen the ;) ?

Another thing we should target towards: If you don't know that (yet/anymore): Have a lot of fun!

I had seen the ;), but I just wanted to emphasize on it as that I found it very strange to see this on the program of one of the board candidates. So to make sure I made that statement :-) I still know how to have fun. If not, then I wouldn't be an openSUSE community member that puts a lot of time in helping out. Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

On Friday 30 November 2012 22:08:15 Marcus Moeller wrote:

I am reworking the banner a bit and keep you updated when I'm done.

Great. And we are working on further optimizing the Colorscheme, Plasma-theme and now we are also looking at a matching Icon theme for KDE :) Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

On Friday 30 November 2012 23:13:21 Marcus Moeller wrote:

Check this out:

http://marcusmoeller.ch/share/oS/misc/board_banner.png http://marcusmoeller.ch/share/oS/misc/board_banner.xcf

Looks good :-)

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Great. And we are working on further optimizing the Colorscheme, Plasma-theme and now we are also looking at a matching Icon theme for KDE :)

Richard and I will at least come up with one wallpaper concept.

That would be great. Maybe we can also see if we get both Gnome and KDE themes to look similar ? Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

Hello! Hey Marcus I like the last one. The "polaroid" of members! Good Idea! Bye -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

On 2012-12-01 17:41:57 (+0100), Marcus Moeller wrote:

Hi Victor.

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Hey Marcus I like the last one. The "polaroid" of members! Good Idea!

Thanks ;)

Yep, very nice indeed. Only remark: the text doesn't have enough contrast IMHO, especially on the left. And maybe we need to use something else than fifthleg, it looks rather unpolished, also because it's monospace I guess. Idea is great though, and the background too :) cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf

On 2012-12-01 18:22:26 (+0100), Marcus Moeller wrote:

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Hey Marcus I like the last one. The "polaroid" of members! Good Idea!

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Thanks ;)

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Yep, very nice indeed. Only remark: the text doesn't have enough contrast IMHO, especially on the left.

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And maybe we need to use something else than fifthleg, it looks rather unpolished, also because it's monospace I guess.

I have increased the contrast, but I would prefer to stick with FifthLeg, as it's a unique font, once specially designed for oS.

We can of course think about a refresh of the fontset in the near future.

Maybe it's just me :) I find it to look quite amateurish, to be honest. There are a lot of more high quality fonts that we can use royalty-free that make things look a lot more polished (just need to sample some of the free to use webfonts at Google to get an idea). As said, maybe it's just me though :) cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf

Hi again.

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Hey Marcus I like the last one. The "polaroid" of members! Good Idea!

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Thanks ;)

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Yep, very nice indeed. Only remark: the text doesn't have enough contrast IMHO, especially on the left.

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And maybe we need to use something else than fifthleg, it looks rather unpolished, also because it's monospace I guess.

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I have increased the contrast, but I would prefer to stick with FifthLeg, as it's a unique font, once specially designed for oS.

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We can of course think about a refresh of the fontset in the near future.

Maybe it's just me :) I find it to look quite amateurish, to be honest. There are a lot of more high quality fonts that we can use royalty-free that make things look a lot more polished (just need to sample some of the free to use webfonts at Google to get an idea).

Could you please come up with some examples to play around with? Greets Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

Am 02.12.2012 10:46, schrieb Pascal Bleser:

On 2012-12-02 08:52:26 (+0100), Marcus Moeller wrote: [...]

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Maybe it's just me :) I find it to look quite amateurish, to be honest. There are a lot of more high quality fonts that we can use royalty-free that make things look a lot more polished (just need to sample some of the free to use webfonts at Google to get an idea).

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Could you please come up with some examples to play around with?

https://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Signika https://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Lato https://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Strait https://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Scada

You can browse around here: https://www.google.com/webfonts

To download the TTF file, do this: curl 'http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Signika'

You will then get the URL of the font, e.g. for Signika: http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/signika/v3/ShL_W4dvX9R2li-O...

Those fonts are all under the SIL Open Font License, kind of MIT/BSD for fonts ;) http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Does this allow packaging in the distribution, as it may be sold in form of boxes? There is a short notice on that: "Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in Standard or Modified Version, may be sold by itself." but I am not sure if that's only valid if you are trying to sell the font on it's own. Greets Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

Am 30.11.2012 18:52, schrieb Raymond Wooninck:

On Friday 30 November 2012 18:47:48 Marcus Moeller wrote:

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Maybe the pics of the members just a bit bigger? There's a lot empty and not used space in the banner... and the 2 Mr. unkonw members maybe a bit smaller?

just my opinion...

I have tried to put the message into the front. That's why I decided to keep the images relatively small.

I believe that it would be indeed better to put all the pictures together. At this moment it looks like that the board has two sides. Especially since that Vincent Untz (Gnome) is on one side and Will Stephenson (KDE) is on the other side. Maybe a bit far fetched, but we might want to prevent some strange thoughts on this one ? Especially since that one board candidate already indicated to bring the Gnome and KDE teams closer together.

Just my five cents.

re-arranged: http://marcusmoeller.ch/share/oS/misc/board_members.png Greets Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org