On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 12:39 +0200, Will Stephenson wrote:
iii) Restyle the website to follow the guidelines and the desktop theme conventions;
Keep a loose definition of 'follow' - the project and the distribution are not identical.
Agreed. Far too often, people equate "openSUSE" to "distro" and we're more than just a distro. If we're going to go with branding, we should treat Project and Distro branding separately.
One thing I have wanted to see over the years is more branding or visibility of Geeko as a character or spirit. I think Geeko is an important image that signifies the community and we should promote it more.
iv) [Possibly] redesign the logo itself
+1
There was some discussion on this while we were standing outside the hotel yesterday waiting for the ride to the airport. I'm not strongly in favor of changing our existing logo, however on second thought, I think we do have a problem in that the Geeko+SUSE and Geeko+openSUSE logos are too similar that we are contributing to the problem that the world doesn't make a distinction between the two entities.
If I were to change the logo but keep it similar, I would propose to add "Project" under "openSUSE" because we really should be selling ourselves as a Project.
So the logo question before us is: Do we want to continue to match up to SUSE's logo or do we want to dramatically change it to something that is uniquely openSUSE's?
Bryen