[Live-demo] Splash screen for the LiveDVD

[Jody Garnett]

It is also kind of a background; making it busy with stuff is just a
pain / distraction :-)

You will find I did commit the osgeo background into our svn (it is
much clearer then that included in the website link - it was collected
by opening up the sample word template and extracting the raster image
as a png file).

I would like to ask the marketing group for the original background
image - although since this comes from a graphic designer we may not
have access to the original.

Jody

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Alex Mandel
<tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> live dvd community,
>>
>> I've briefly got access to LISAsoft's graphic artist between jobs for a
>> day or 2 this week, and am looking to give him direction on what we wish
>> see in the splash screen.
>>
>> I'm looking to hear ideas here, so that we can direct him appropriately.
>>
>> My suggestions:
>> * I think we should keep a common theme running through the various
>> distributions. In particular, we have been building a reputation around
>> a wombat. I'm open to dressing the wombat up into different poses.
>>
>> * While keeping the same theme, we should make the background
>> recognisably different from the last distribution, maybe using orange or
>> blue colours, (and OSGeo Green for the 4.0 foss4g 2010 release).
>>
>> * We should incorporate the OSGeo logo prominently.
>>
>> * We should keep the desktop background relatively simple and
>> non-intrusive as it will likely be covered with logos.
>>
>> Any other ideas we should consider?
>>
>
> I think we should move towards more OSGeo related branding as a whole,
> giving credit to contributors and sponsors where appropriate.
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Material_Samples
> (All samples are available in svn, http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/)
>
> For splash screens and backgrounds I was thinking of using the
> presentation slide template (As Jody pointed out) and/or the front page
> of the brochure's background - I prefer this because it's darker and
> easier to see things on top of it.
> (http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/brochures/two-side-colour-2009/source-inkscape/OSGeo_Brochure_09_front.svg)
>
> Outside of Australia/Foss4g2009 I don't think there's any particular
> hold on the wombat. As I mentioned before if we want a custom touch each
> year, it should be dictated by the FOSS4G. So yes for this release we
> could keep the wombat somewhere, but small, the biggest thing on the
> page should be OSGeo.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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