Hi Klaas and the other readers,

as we are working on a change of the branding guidelines to make it easier to do openSUSE based derivates of the distribution.

the easiest way - make only guidelines that helps us to stay out of license trouble. All other things I wouldnt try to regulate

For that, we will in one point of time need changed branding which reflects a "Built on openSUSE" trademark to be used by derivates (not yet settled and decided, but thats the idea).

there is already one, look at SUSE Studio (for my taste is to ugly, I would wish me a more decent there)

I'd like to ask if the artwork team would be so nice to come up with suggestions how we could vary the openSUSE distro branding to get the "Built on openSUSE" branding.

The nicest thing is only a little writing "based on openSUSE" or "Build on openSUSE" so for this we have nothing to do except the point them to fifth leg. What we can offer (can only speak for me) is, to give them help with artwork. Thats the best way to doing that, because it needs a little skills to do that. And so we make sure, that the derivates have a high quality with the design. And we make a strong conection back to us.

What do you think?

regards,

Klaas

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Am Donnerstag, 2. Dezember 2010, 14:22:16 schrieb Klaas Freitag: Hi,

this needs to be revisited, I am sorry for not catching up here for so long.

as we are working on a change of the branding guidelines to make it easier to do openSUSE based derivates of the distribution. For that, we will in one point of time need changed branding which reflects a "Built on openSUSE" trademark to be used by derivates (not yet settled and decided, but thats the idea). More details: Soon we will have updated trademark guidelines which make it much more easier to do openSUSE based distros without harming the existing guidelines. That is on the TODO list for long now.

For that, it would be great if we had branding packages which replace the ones from an "official opensuse distro" and carry the message "This is a distro built on openSUSE". The design can and should be similar to the "official" ones. I could imagine to just change the colors on the "official" artwork to a brighter one, but I think we could also be very successful with something different as Helen suggested in her other mail. Its not neccessary to change everything I think. The objective is to make the derivate easy distinctable from the official one, so I guess we're talking mainly desktop background and boot splash and Yast. Note that this design will be widely spread as it will probably become default in SUSE Studio, so its definetely important and an great representation of the project. I am unfortunately not able to name all the branding packages which have to be changed, but maybe somebody on this list knows or I will find out.

I'd like to ask if the artwork team would be so nice to come up with suggestions how we could vary the openSUSE distro branding to get the "Built on openSUSE" branding.

That would be great :-) If there are further questions I promise to sort them out. Klaas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org