Christian Boltz ✆ via opensuse.org
For "insiders", it is obvious that geeko means openSUSE, so they don't need any additional text.
But for people who don't know something about openSUSE, keeping "openSUSE" in the logo is important so that they know our name and, if everything else fails, can google for it. You'll get much better search results for "openSUSE" than for "green chameleon linux" ;-)
I don't think it makes sense to have a logo that only insiders understand... ;-)
This is an excellent point. Definitely keep the name in there. I think it is important that we always consider the "newbies" and look at everything from "fresh eyes" as best we can so that we ARE easy to find and recognize by those who are possibly toying with the idea of getting involved vs. those of us who are involved and looking from our own perspective of what we ALREADY know and recognize. Rajko rmatov101@charter.net via opensuse.org
Gweeen :)
Once upon a time only Geeko was green, but distro was mostly light blue. If my memory is not failing, the only color that was absent was bright red, or should I say Red Hat red.
Someone said Fedora - blue, Ubuntu - orange so what is left for us? Green. Not so fast, really. Linux Mint is telling that green is their color, like in Irish green.
In other words I don't want to give up on different colors.
If Geeko is really chameleon then limiting it to green is giving up its primary property, ability to be in any color.
That SUSE logo is green and under trademark protection doesn't meant that the same shape can't be produced in any color and their combinations, including pink with white round spots. It will find its place under the Sun.
I see the point you are making here and I'm just not sure about it. It's like a favorite sports team changing colors ya know? It just doesn't happen. Logo tweaks, ok as long as the overall is pretty much recognizable but color? That's just my feeling on it.
As usually, we create phone book with links to other people work. Then use categories that is easy to attach to article to sort links.
We can use, what you started recently, top potion of article in Category namespace for short intro to topic. MediaWiki will automatically populate bottom with articles, images, files tagged with that category. The only problem with this technique is that category naming must be good, as there is no simple method to change name, as you already learned :)
When said tagged, in wiki parlance that is categorized, but it works just as tagging in all other places.
Now this is an interesting thought. I think we would have to mock a page up to see how we could pull this off without the article looking like just a clutter of links.
Maybe some kind of artwork checklist. * have some artwork * check that is in editable form, svg or xcf * check that is publishable (no nekkid stuff in hidden layers) * place in local git repo * merge with github * make it jpg, or png * upload to Flickr * add comment with github location
I bet some steps are missing.
Now with workflow like that go to opensuse-programming and ask volunteers that can create script that will do all above at once. (We have connections to real geeks, don't we?) Then because opensuse-programming is not well populated we have to go to some other list and ask the same pointing -programming article.
Pretty much what I was thinking yes, however, an automated script to handle this I think would be unlikely since password entrance is required into Flickr. I love the idea though and if it "is" possible that would be truly awesome! Let me play around with the idea on a couple of different web storage formats and see if I can come up with something simple to use and replicate. On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Rajko <rmatov101@charter.net> wrote:
Hi Scott,
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:09:52 -0700 "DuBois, Scott L." <ranger@roguehorse.com> wrote:
I agree with everything you're saying. I like my icons colorful, but the branding should stay green.
Gweeen :)
Once upon a time only Geeko was green, but distro was mostly light blue. If my memory is not failing, the only color that was absent was bright red, or should I say Red Hat red.
Someone said Fedora - blue, Ubuntu - orange so what is left for us? Green. Not so fast, really. Linux Mint is telling that green is their color, like in Irish green.
In other words I don't want to give up on different colors.
If Geeko is really chameleon then limiting it to green is giving up its primary property, ability to be in any color.
That SUSE logo is green and under trademark protection doesn't meant that the same shape can't be produced in any color and their combinations, including pink with white round spots. It will find its place under the Sun.
I have also seen a lot of fans out there doing a lot of really good work, but somehow, someway we need to get them involved instead of splintered. How we can go about that I don't know but I think about it all the time and I'd really like to hear suggestions.
As usually, we create phone book with links to other people work. Then use categories that is easy to attach to article to sort links.
We can use, what you started recently, top potion of article in Category namespace for short intro to topic. MediaWiki will automatically populate bottom with articles, images, files tagged with that category. The only problem with this technique is that category naming must be good, as there is no simple method to change name, as you already learned :)
When said tagged, in wiki parlance that is categorized, but it works just as tagging in all other places.
... established repository for artwork that is in a modifiable form that can be tweaked by any one of the artists. ... "editable" format to submit it in XCF or SVG so that later ... anyone on the Art team can pull that image and make the corrections for the marketing team to use for their needs. ....
That was one of ideas given on IRC, to have repo of ready to go templates. If given in SVG format one can reuse elements, ie. create 3-4 tree shapes, and when you need forest just run wild with mirroring and resizing. Who will tell that forest is made out of few original shapes.
While GitHub works great for revision control (IMHO) it's not that great for being able to view images in a hurry like Flickr or a Picasa ...
Maybe some kind of artwork checklist. * have some artwork * check that is in editable form, svg or xcf * check that is publishable (no nekkid stuff in hidden layers) * place in local git repo * merge with github * make it jpg, or png * upload to Flickr * add comment with github location
I bet some steps are missing.
Now with workflow like that go to opensuse-programming and ask volunteers that can create script that will do all above at once. (We have connections to real geeks, don't we?) Then because opensuse-programming is not well populated we have to go to some other list and ask the same pointing -programming article.
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