On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 09:32:45 PM Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
People,
I think I can help Bryen to justify paying for stickers, see the new template, little different but keeping the approved design with the upgrade url
http://en.opensuse.org/File:Card18C.png
Em Qui, 2011-02-03 às 01:34 +0100, Jos Poortvliet escreveu:
On Thursday 03 February 2011 01:20:48 Stuart Tanner wrote:
On Wednesday 02 Feb 2011 23:34:00 Alan Clark wrote:
> On 2/2/2011 at 02:56 PM, in message
<201102022256.43382.jospoortvliet@gmail.com>, Jos Poortvliet
wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2011 21:17:58 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
A couple of weeks ago, I made plans to personally order some stickers to attach to our Promo DVDs at the upcoming SCALE conference in Los Angeles. The event is 2 weeks prior to the release of 11.4.
The focus of the sticker was clearly to provide an upgrade path for receivers of the promo DVD at SCALE.
As I mentioned it to Manu, he offered to join in with me and design the label, which I gladly accepted his offer because I like seeing people jump in to help. We discussed it openly in the IRC channel and then other people saw and joined in.
Unfortunately, for me, the discussion quickly changed to a very different focus and I'm having a bit of a difficult time justifying paying for the sticker in its present design, which is co-designed by Manu and Carlos.
I really like the design. Very clean. Good job guys!
Don't get me wrong, I think it is a very beautiful design, but it has a serious redundancy issue. In the sticker, I had wanted to point to http://en.opensuse.org//SDB:System_upgrade. Sure its an ugly URL but at least it got the users to the right place. Howeever, the discussion shifted to changing the URL to www.opensuse.org. My problem with this is that it is redundant because that URL is already on the DVD cover itself, plus it is on many other materials we will give out. And the focus changed also from experienced users to n00b users, which is not our primary audience.
So, I would really like to rediscuss this label before I send it to the printers ASAP. I am honestly not comfortable paying for stickers that say what is already said elsewhere. Any thoughts, folks?
Here's the sticker design by Carlos and Manu: http://en.opensuse.org/File:Card17CR.png
I like the sticker but wonder where this was discussed, IRC I guess? Ok, my opinion for this would be simply - if this was meant to lead people to a site where they can upgrade from 11.3 to 11.4 (and I understand the need for that
as SCALE is shortly before the 11.4 release so this is actually a brilliant idea) then the right link should be on there... Without it and having ppl go
to opensuse.org to upgrade, well, they'll probably download a new DVD which is really a huge waste of our 11.3 one ;-)
I agree that the URL pointing to upgrade is long and ugly, but it is readable and easily keyed into a browser. +1 due to the functional purpose of the upgrade URL.
Thanks, Bryen
+1 from me also :) anything that saves dvd's has to be a good thing, but
at the same time distro upgrades can sometimes be unhappy so fresh install can be required..
And the URL also promotes the fact we HAVE this upgrade path: a lot of people still think you HAVE to reinstall openSUSE every 8 months, we need to work on changing that perception. This would help!
Carlos, This is a beautiful improvement focusing on upgrade. I was out for a few days on and off. -- Ricardo Chung | openSUSE Linux Ambassador Panama Testing version 11.4 Milestone 6, KDE 4.6.00, Mesa-Nouveau 3D -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org