January 2013 - openSUSE Artwork - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-artwork] State of 12.3 Branding - A Plea for 13.1
by Richard Brown 04 Feb '13

04 Feb '13

Hi All, As you can see in the published Release timeline for 12.3, the openSUSE Artwork Deadline was Thursday 24th Jan http://turing.suse.de/~coolo/opensuse_12.3/ As of 5PM UTC on Wed 30th Jan (ie almost a week later) the state of our team todo list (on wiki here: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Artwork_Todo) was as follows: Urgent Tasks: Grub2 - Work not started gfxboot - Work not started YaST - Work not started Removal of application branding - Work not started Plymouth - complete, only polishing required (tittiatcoke) KDM - complete (MM) ksplash - complete (MM) kdelibs - complete (sumski) SUSEgreeter - complete (sumski) Less Urgent: GDM - Done (ilmehtar) GNOME dynamic wallpaper - Done, polishing still required (ilmehtar) Grub, gfxboot and YaST are the first 3 things users to 12.3 will see. In order to avoid the horrifically embarrassing situation of these key parts of 12.3 being released with 12.2's branding still in place, I hurriedly through things together and got them submitted. I'm not happy with how they look, and I'm hoping that we can play on the sympathies of the release team to speedily accept any polishing from me and anyone else over the next few days so 12.3 is not a complete artistic trainwreck. This is my plea for 13.1 to the whole team. Please do not let this happen again. We have this list full of people who are apparently keen to contribute to the artwork and branding of openSUSE, but when the time comes, we never seem to get the goods. Unlike previous releases, I do not think this can be explained as 'we did not know what to do'. A great deal of effort has been put in to explain the current situation, the current requirements, and simple ToDo lists have been put together.. and yet still we find ourselves in this situation. I've heard the complaints that people like me 'monopolise' the process, but even when I step back, do my best to inform what needs to be done and leave it to others to do it, we find ourselves in this situation.. I feel that far too often, openSUSE is relying on hackers like myself, tigerfoot & tittiatcoke to pull things out of the bag at the last minute, and given these people are not artists (nor wish to be) I think we'd all accept than the end result isn't as artistic as we'd like, or as openSUSE deserves. I don't think anyone likes this current situation, so we need the Artwork team producing art that can be used in the functions of the distribution. SUSE may be hiring a Graphic Designer to work on openSUSE, but when they do, I want them to find a functioning artwork team for them to collaborate with, not just a bunch of hackers desperate for relief from doing something which comes unnaturally to them. Please roll up your sleeves, put on your thinking caps, and get involved with the Marketing/Artwork hackathon next week so we can set the foundation for making 13.1 better than this https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:12.3_marketing_hackathon Regards Richard Brown Branding Package Maintainer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] SCaLE 11x Banner help?
by Drew Adams 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

Hey everyone, Those of us involved with working the openSUSE booth for SCaLE 11x 2013 had the great idea for a custom banner for the booth... one problem though... we don't have a design, and non of us are skilled in computer graphics. If there is anyone who could help us design a Southern California themed banner, that would be very helpful. Thanks, -- Drew Adams Member & Ambassador, openSUSE Project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] openSUSE 12.3 poster
by Jos Poortvliet 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Heya, Christopher mentioned it'd be nice to have an openSUSE geeko on the 12.3 poster. I think he's right, what do you think? Maybe someone can try to put it on there, see if it fits? /J

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[opensuse-artwork] Printing things for FOSDEM
by Jos Poortvliet 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Heya, For those of you curious as to how the poster stuff worked out, here's a link to the zip file with to-be-printed materials I send to Agustin: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/print.zip (warning: 36 mb, pls don't all download it and block my dropbox account - you probably know what's in there as it is also in github) In short, it contains: * Anditosan's openSUSE Conference poster * VictorHck's openSUSE 12.3-is-coming poster * Carlos' oSC13 folding Cube * Carlos' oSC13 folding Tux Note that the credits are a bit arbitrary as everyone worked on these designs collaboratively, so thanks to all of those who contributed in words and deeds ;-) It is now up to Agustin to decide how much we can print of all these - which of course depends on budget. Have a nice day and cu later, Jos

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[opensuse-artwork] hackathon planning
by Jos Poortvliet 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Heya, I've made a rather detailed schedule: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:12.3_marketing_hackathon#Schedule_proposal Please look over it. There are a few meetings and other specific things in there that need to happen, some things are still open. The rooms are also appointed so if you want to make changes, note that the room configuration might make it hard/impossible to do so! Feedback and additions still welcome, how are the lists of tasks coming? Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-artwork] artwork for FOSDEM
by Jos Poortvliet 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

Heya, Alberto (SUSE employee at the openSUSE team) has tested printing some of the poster proposals as well as the folding cube and tux that Carlos proposed. I then had a chat with Agustin about the budget possibilities. The results: * ChamaleonBust_white - PERFECT http://wstaw.org/m/2013/01/21/ChameleonBust_white.png Needs feedback - it's simple to print but I'm guessing nobody likes it much... Should we bother with this one? https://picasaweb.google.com/104830275042059445407/OpenSUSECube02 * cube - Colors are good, the size is really small on a4 Needs updating for oSC and (later) for openSUSE 12.3 ;-) http://paste.opensuse.org/60269859 * tux - small, colors ok. size needs to be a3 like cube. Needs updating for oSC and oS 12.3 (later) http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/anditosan/Poster4_zps3db5ca16.png * poster4 Nearly perfect. Dark, but no dust or granularity in the background We can print them if you're all OK with it. https://plus.google.com/photos/104830275042059445407/albums/583344710543983… * poster.png (white tower) - Colors are ok, the background has some dust, is granular and not as smooth as in the image. Needs a bit of updating: lighter image, smoother? We can print everything and we have budget for say 2x10 big and 2x20 small posters and a nice bunch of folding things (say 100 or so of each). What we need now is final versions of everything to be printed by SUNDAY, Jan 27 24:00. Carlos, if you can update the cube and tux things with an oSC design, maybe andi and/or others have ideas on how and what - then we can print those. I do need SVG versions in A3/A4 so we can generate the right PDF's in terms of size and CMYK etc requirements... Andi, Poster4 is perfect so we can print those. I saw some want it more greenish and all - you fight it out and send me a SVG on A3 format by the deadline and I'll get it printed ;-) Tell me if we should print the white one. For a postcard I think the 'summer is coming' from Carlos is incredibly cool: http://wstaw.org/m/2013/01/24/Summer-is-coming_05.jpg It's black and white, I'm sure we can print it. But it, too, needs svg... And postcard size. So my proposal is: * Andi finishes and sends the poster he designed to me * Carlos talks to others here and works with them to update the folding thingies with oSC artwork. Separate openSUSE 12.3 artwork versions and a new OBS one we keep for later :D * Carlos cleans up the summer-is-coming and gets me a SVG of that for postcards * I make sure it all gets printed * we have a big, virtual grouphug at FOSDEM about this :D What about it, can we make oSC promo kick ass at FOSDEM? /Jos

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[opensuse-artwork] Social Media 12.3 Themed
by Andy anditosan 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Hello again Tonight I worked on a couple more things that can help spread 12.3. I added backgrounds for Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Use them if you like them :D http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/anditosan/TwitterBackground-Coming… http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/anditosan/GoogleCoverFinal_zps978d… http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/anditosan/TimeLineCoverFinaljpg_zp… The sources are on the artwork repository on Github. Thank you Andy (anditosan) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] T-shirts
by Victor hck 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Hi all today a rainy sunday was a good day to play with inkscape and make some proposals for a T-shirt Variations of a one design with differents fonts: Here's a preview: - http://paste.opensuse.org/75597666 - http://paste.opensuse.org/29810219 - http://paste.opensuse.org/92085062 Bye -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-artwork] Meeting Scheduled
by Jos Poortvliet 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:23 AM, DuBois, Scott L. <ranger(a)roguehorse.com> wrote: > What kind of design would you like to see Jos? Just some generic openSUSE > stuff for printing on shirts? I would guess this means no version numbers or > anything just logos and such? We can slap a logo on a shirt. What would be cool to have is something that is less "just an openSUSE logo" but more "a cool t-shirt that hints at openSUSE". Be it a funny/geeky slogan, a cool image, something you would wear to work (provided you work in IT) or to university. That is the kind of thing we're looking for... Of course the usual applies - should be printable (I don't know much about it but printing on t-shirts has its limitations) and in a SVG or similarly open format. > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jos(a)opensuse.org> wrote: >> >> On Friday 18 January 2013 18:34:31 Rajko wrote: >> > On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:04:41 +0100 >> > Jos Poortvliet <jos(a)opensuse.org> wrote: >> > >> > ... >> > >> > > People can, by definition, only decide what THEY will do. ... >> > >> > Right, so there is no need that maintainer is present, at least when >> > plan is clear and there are plenty of topics that are never touched. >> >> Sure, as long as the people don't think they can make final decisions on >> things which are not maintained by them, then fine. There's plenty of >> stuff >> which isn't maintained at all (or doesn't need a maintainer, like artwork >> for stickers, flyers, posters, t-shirts, the conference and other events - >> etc, which we all need DESPERATELY. Let me repeat - a good design for a >> sticker or improvements to the flyers, a t-shirt design - boy, would that >> be >> awesome. >> >> I hereby promise anyone who comes up with a half-decent* t-shirt design >> gets >> a t-shirt of his (her) own design in his (her) size signed by the entire >> openSUSE team AND a few extra for the fun of it. >> >> (half-decent meaning good enough that we decide to print a bunch - and >> right now, we're printing *NOTHING* simply because we have NO good design) >> >> Oh and the same for posters and stickers. There you go. Should be enough >> to >> have a few meetings about :D >> >> >> > Also, we should never forget that branding for 12.3 is just one of >> > tasks that people can take on, and if they feel uncomfortable with it >> > there are other areas that need some work. >> >> Exactly. See above :D >> >> /Jos > > > > > -- > God bless ! > Scott DuBois > www.ROGUEHORSE.com > openSUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-artwork] artwork for FOSDEM
by Jos Poortvliet 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

On Thursday 24 January 2013 20:52:26 Henne Vogelsang wrote: > Hey, > > On Jan 24, 2013 5:45 PM, "Jos Poortvliet" <jos(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > > Heya, > > Please whatever you pick, it has to have the agreed upon osc13 logo on it. > We need to make this known throughout the FOSS world so people recognize > it for the event! Good point, yes... Carlos, Andi, you think you can get me these pieces of artwork by Sunday: - a "summer is coming", looking as much as possible like http://bit.ly/WkpIOw on postcard format; - a less dark version of the white tower picture - tux and/or cube (pick one if you have no time for both) updated to either openSUSE Conference or to openSUSE 12.3 I know I am asking for a lot... But right now, we have some very-cool- almost-done ideas and it would be great if we can turn that into very-cool- and-done ideas :D Hugs, Jos > Henne

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