From: Ryan Pavlik (abiryan_at_ryand.net)
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 17:47:38 EST
Hello, AbiWord friends, and those of you who I am not acquainted with on
the GNOME Office list!
I have been trying to help out by rebuilding a GNOME Office
branding/marketing home page. I have a fair amount of materials and
ideas already put together, and mostly just require the go-ahead from
the requisite people and some information.
I have now subscribed to the GNOME Office list, so I will be able to
keep up better with this situation.
I have uploaded a mockup of a sort of a "splash image"
/theme/marketing/design motif on my Abi web page:
http://www.ryand.net/oss/abi . I am excited about this design and the
possibilities it brings to the projects.
I would like to explain the design a bit. As I understood that there
are problems with using the GNOME foot icon, I wanted the logo to match
the theme and style of the GNOME logo, without actually using the foot.
I also learned that the goal of GNOME Office is to build a suite on
common components, namely GNOME and the GO libraries. This inspired a
concentring circle design. I have placed on the inner most (outside of
the suite name), darkest ring, the two "core" apps as they were
suggested to me. Around this ring, on a lighter, more distant ring, I
placed icons of a few of the programs listed to be or potentially become
part of GNOME Office. I have also designed special "GNOME Office"
splash screen images for the programs when distributed as a part of the
GO package, and am working on creating several "levels" of unified
package, containing the programs from various levels in the hierarchy
(the core apps, tentatively known as "essence", a slightly larger, more
inclusive package, and a fully inclusive one). The GNOME Office
acronym, GO, also provides numerous "catchphrase" marketing
opportunities, and one of these can be found at the bottom of my mockup.
("GO beyond.")
As you may have observed, I am committed to revitalizing the Internet
presence and customer vitality of GNOME Office. I believe that with
appropriate, creative, effective design and marketing, the GNOME Office
project can grow from a "meta-project" into a vibrant customer and
developer community, and the GO brand can become a "household name" in
the minds of the project's target customers, as OpenOffice.org, MS
Office, and to an extent, KOffice have done. There is much potential in
the collective resources of the GO community.
I have even more extensive ideas than those I am able to detail in this
message. They will be posted to the above web site once they have
reached an appropriately completed level.
I would be honored to volunteer to recreate the web page of GNOME
Office. I have received offers for help from the AbiWord list, and have
already received a partial SVG version of the Gnumeric logo, in addition
to the AbiWord logo that I made. If project leaders or developers have
any ideas as to how I could improve my plans, re-organize the project
hierarchy, or even just an SVG logo from the projects, it would be
greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Ryan Pavlik
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