[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Hi all,

this is just great - thanks a lot for working on it so quickly! :)

It looks really promising! Let me know if you want me to grab the .png 
files from somewhere to build a test package...

--Sebastian

Sean DALY wrote:
> wow Gary you were up all night on that
>
> Yes by all means back on list
>
> I really like the logo cycling through our colors, it's a "golden
> rule" of marketing to not change logo colors and we break it with
> panache (each press release PDF has a different color theme too)
>
> i want to mock up with kid avatars around Activity icons
>
> I build animated GIFs the old-fashioned imagemagick way:
> $ convert -delay 20 progress-*.png animation.gif
>
> I'll upload something today thanks
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com>  wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Just to get a basic, safe, default starting point in there, I've uploaded
>> one simple treatment to:
>>
>>
>>   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo#Sugar_Boot_Logo_Animations
>>
>> Will try to upload a couple more tomorrow.
>>
>> Night,
>> --Gary
>>
>> P.S. Should pull this back on list, your call Sean, but probably worth
>> getting a couple more ideas up so that folks can input to some alternative
>> treatments.
>>
>> On 30 May 2009, at 00:58, Sean DALY wrote:
>>
>>> Christian, Eben
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if you are on sugar-devel but this is I think an
>>> outstanding opportunity for Sugar branding, "celebrating" Sugar
>>> interface.iconography and greeting children.
>>>
>>> I know nothing about the plymouth boot animator, but i deduce that
>>> consecutively named files will do the trick
>>>
>>> I'm willing to attack this but before I try scraping screenshots, do
>>> you guys have any interface assets i could grab?
>>>
>>> Input greatly appreciated
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Maybe we could work on it together?
>>>>
>>>> here's my idea.... like my booth rollup banner mockup which Christian
>>>> 7 Eben both liked, I want to stay as much as possible within the Sugar
>>>> HIG and iconography.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> boot should start with our logo ... smaller than in the previous SoaS
>>>> ... (not sure yet if should be with or without "labs")
>>>>
>>>> The ring is iconic ... I want to keep a ring at boot... but instead of
>>>> dots, I want XO avatars - kids!
>>>>
>>>> In the middle... each succeeding image with a colored Activity icon...
>>>> matched to the corresponding XO avatar appearing in the ring. So kids
>>>> understand that Activities are for them.
>>>>
>>>> And ending with... kids around the Journal!
>>>>
>>>> Alternate idea: cycling through the 12 logo color combos?
>>>>
>>>> Not mutually exclusive... logo could be on the bottom of ring
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>> Sean
>>>>
>>>> P.S. I've actually done something similar with a titling sequence for
>>>> a short film. I started with the final image and wiped elements,
>>>> backing down to the first image
>>>>
>>>> I use imagemagick a lot no problem to create a script which could
>>>> inject arbitrary text into a ppm file
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Sean,
>>>>> FYI, this came in off list.
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> --G
>>>>>
>>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>>
>>>>> From: James Zaki<james.zaki at gmail.com>
>>>>> Date: 29 May 2009 22:24:06 BST
>>>>> To: Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen
>>>>> I'm in touch with a design company who owes me a favour or two.
>>>>>
>>>>> I could get them to whip up some concept designs for inspiration?
>>>>>
>>>>> James
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2009/5/29 Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com>
>>>>>> On 29 May 2009, at 21:37, Sean DALY wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sebastian, Gary
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'd like to take a stab at it, I've actually had an idea brewing for
>>>>>>> awhile
>>>>>> Cool, shout if you need extra hands/review.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --G
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What's the deadline please?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>>> Sean
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Gary C Martin
>>>>>>> <gary at garycmartin.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 29 May 2009, at 18:41, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> sorry for the short notice, but this is rather urgent. I've been
>>>>>>>>> spending yesterday afternoon to update the packages in our SoaS Yum
>>>>>>>>> repo
>>>>>>>>> to reflect the changes for Fedora 11.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> As it turned out, the plymouth package has been partly rewritten,
>>>>>>>>> and I
>>>>>>>>> was wondering (also with regard to #709), how we wanted to deal
>>>>>>>>> with a
>>>>>>>>> new boot screen. For now, I've just implemented the old Sugar logo
>>>>>>>>> again, but we might also want to have something more shiny (probably
>>>>>>>>> with a progress bar).
>>>>>>>> Some form of progress indicator would be a useful addition.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm not really that good at art and the Sugar logo thing there was
>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>> first nothing more than a quick hack, so it'd would be really
>>>>>>>>> great if
>>>>>>>>> someone could have a look and work on such a boot screen.
>>>>>>>> I'm happy to give it a look/shot from a graphics point of view if no
>>>>>>>> one else steps forward.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So. When did you need it by?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> OLPC is currently doing the same for their 1.5 software release,
>>>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>>>> gives us a good possibility to have a look at the file structure:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/~halfline/olpc.tar.bz2
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Please let me know if there's anything I can help with.
>>>>>>>> I'm new to plymouth, but looking at the content of olpc.tar.bz2 it
>>>>>>>> seems simple. My main question is where should I look for the config
>>>>>>>> that describes which images get loaded in what order. Perhaps the
>>>>>>>> names just conform to some hardcoded protocol? How about the location
>>>>>>>> of corner-image.png, perhaps hardcoded again?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm just downloading your latest Soas build so will have a dig in
>>>>>>>> there to see what you have done already – I'm just wondering if this
>>>>>>>> is really as easy as generating a bunch of png files with the correct
>>>>>>>> file names :-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>> --Gary
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>> --Sebastian
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