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

[David Farning]

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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