[IAEP] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs branding/theme unity

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

Slight grammatical problem with one panel on

http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/betasite/index.php?template=page&page=learners

"Kamala reads a webpage about sharks and LEARN that shark populations are
declining."  -- should be LEARNS.

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:54 AM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Christian Schmidt
> <schmidt at pentagram.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Sean. We are in the final stages of proofing content on the
> betasite,
> > and think we will go live this weekend. Stay tuned!
>
> Christian, I officially withdraw any reservations I had about the new
> site:)
>
> I showed it around my nephew's elementary school yesterday;  The
> teachers, teachers aids, and parents thought it was great!
>
> The most interesting aspect was the change from the dark to light
> background.  They thought the dark, over welming, background
> represented what one 'expects' from computers and the light background
> was what you would 'want' from computers.
>
> david
>
> >
> > Christian
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Sean DALY [mailto:sdaly.be at gmail.com]
> > To: ,Josh williams [mailto:joshcwilliams at gmail.com]
> > Cc: David Farning [mailto:dfarning at sugarlabs.org],
> iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org,
> > sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org, Christian Marc Schmidt
> > [mailto:schmidt at pentagram.com]
> > Sent: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:05:48 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs branding/theme unity
> >
> > Greetings Josh!
> >
> > In fact lots of work has been done on this by Christian, see for example:
> > http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Logo
> > http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Website
> >
> > and, in beta:
> >
> http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/betasite/index.php
> >
> >
> > May I suggest you join the Marketing list?
> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing
> >
> > We have IRC meetings on Tuesdays at 1600 UTC:
> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-February/000341.html
> >
> >
> > We are gearing up for the imminent Sugar 0.84 release.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Sean
> > Marketing Coordinator
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:08 AM, ,Josh williams <joshcwilliams at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >> Hey David,
> >>
> >> I have had a quick look at the markup and the CSS, but I haven't
> >> actually had a look at the PHP. I laughed when I saw the Mozilla guys
> >> had an IE style sheet, but then I figured they were probably just
> >> reusing code. I was actually wondering if I could have a local copy of
> >> the remora code or access to a development or testing environment at
> >> some point?
> >>
> >> I also agree that we need a common branding for all of the sites, Gnome
> >> is a great example I think Mozilla and Ubuntu are good examples to. I
> >> think a splash page for www.sugarlabs.org built on WordPress or Drupal
> >> would be a really good idea also. It could explain the what the project
> >> is, have a download link to the latest version, link to the wiki, press
> >> release, news etc.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Josh
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> David Farning wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hey Josh, thanks for the offer of help!
> >>>> I definitely like your simple and kid-friendly theme for addons. I
> >>>> wonder
> >>>> off the top of my head though, if it makes sense to make addons.sl.o
> >>>> look
> >>>> *more* like the other sl.o sites?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Have you gotten a chance to look at the aslo code?
> >>>
> >>>     Things are kind of confusing right now
> >>>
> >>>> with the different styles of wiki, trac, addons, schools, gitorious,
> >>>> api,
> >>>> buildbot, etc.  planet is the lone exception, it seems to follow
> >>>> wiki.sugarlabs.org nicely :)
> >>>> It would be great if the Design Team could comment on this decision.
> >>>> Here are a couple other web infrastructure ideas:
> >>>> + Improve theming consistency among various SL.o sites.
> >>>> + Single sign on cookie among all SL.o sites - perhaps OpenID based.
> >>>> + Standard nav header atop all SL.o sites rather than the various nav
> >>>> headers in different places, with different links.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> The various gnome sites such as build.gnome.org and www.gnome.org are
> >>> very nice examples of common theming tying sites together.  Some thing
> >>> similar for SL would be great.
> >>>
> >>> david
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> + Better splash page for Gitorious, looking more like GitWeb - a page
> >>>> with a
> >>>> small search box at the top and the rest being a list of projects,
> >>>> sorted by
> >>>> recent activity, showing owner and last commit details
> >>>> Best regards,
> >>>> Wade
> >>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:10 AM, ,Josh williams
> >>>> <joshcwilliams at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi, I'm working on the design of sugar labs add-ons with Mick Weiss.
> >>>>> I've created a mock up at
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/AddonsPortal/Design
> >>>>> but I've haven't been able to contact anyone on the design team as of
> >>>>> yet. I would also like to volunteer some of my time for other
> projects.
> >>>>> I'm primarily a front-end designer with XHTML/CSS JavaScript skills,
> >>>>> but
> >>>>> I also know some PHP/MySQL and have a background in Linux. I also
> enjoy
> >>>>> creating icons, so if there are any activities developers that need
> >>>>> icons please contact me. My portfolio is over at
> http://tucsonlabs.com
> >>>>> .
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If you're a member of the design team or have some use for my skills,
> >>>>> please let me know.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Josh
> >>>>> _______________________________________________
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