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

[Christian Schmidt]

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

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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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