On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 11:39 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > > The Marketing team has been discussing how we can organize our future > > Fedora messaging around the "4 Foundations" theme (freedom, friends, > > features, first). I think people here already know these terms from > > elsewhere[1], so I won't belabor the point. :-) > > A very quick and rough idea (I'll have to think more about it before > trying some graphics): my opinion is that *now* is the time to emphasize > the *people* aspect of Fedora (the distro is not only for spaceships and > robots, it is for humans too). > So I think about using some people silhouettes (not real people images, > as we don't want legal complications) in various postures, one for each > of the 4 foundations (for a set of 4 posters). Not a bad idea, as long as we don't make these too much like the Apple ad campaigns. We'd need a differentiator of some sort, which will be difficult because their campaigns use a wide variety of backgrounds -- monopolizing the color field if we're using silhouettes. > Here are a few possible metaphors: > - Freedom: a couple of people silhouettes enjoying themselves: dancing, > jumping, something like that; > - Friends: a couple of friends shaking hands is too stereotypical, but I > am sure it is not that hard to illustrate friendship; > - Features: not very sure about that, maybe silhouettes involved in > various activities: listening to music, playing games, remote > controlling a robot; > - First: maybe a small group of sprinters with one of them two steps > ahead of the pack. > > Also I am not sure if those are best all blue or, as "I/F/V", in various > colors, each color supporting the poster's theme. These all sound really reasonable to me, with the caveat from above. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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