[Clipart] Release Theme Idea

[Bryce Harrington]

As a way to provide focus for each official release, the project could
adopt a holiday approach, where each release is identified with a
particular holiday.  For example, the Father's Day release could focus
on clipart such as sports, fishing, cars, etc.  The idea is that this
would provide open source users with fresh clipart for use in any
materials they may wish to create for that event (greeting cards,
flyers, posters, website collateral, etc.)  It also gives the clipart
team a goal to shoot for with a sensible target date to deliver by.

Further, an interesting extension of this idea would be to also include
some templates for things that people might wish to use the clipart in.
For example, Mother's Day could include a Scribus template for making a
Mother's Day card, while Father's Day could include an SVG roadmap in
Inkscape for a weekend fishing trip, and New Year's Day could include an
Impress presentation for creating a photo album of one's social events
from the past year.  In addition to providing users with something
directly useful, it helps us both promote and tie-in with other Open
Source projects.  By featuring a different app each release, we
encourage exposure of a wider range of apps to users than they might
normally encounter, and at the same time emphesizes the usefulness of
the clipart project's effort for that application's userbase.

We would need to take into account that some nations celebrate holidays
at different times, and plan release dates accordingly (e.g., time the
Father's Day release so it'll hit the most instances worldwide within a
reasonable period of time).  It would probably be sensible to provide
2-4 week's lead time between the release and the actual holiday so that
folks will have time to actually use the material.

Germany Bank Holidays: New Year, Carnival, Easter,  Labor Day/May Day,
National Day, Christmas and the 12. February

US Holidays:  Christmas, New Years, President's Day, Mardi Gras, Easter,
Mother's Day, Father's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving

http://freedesktop.org/Software/ClipartTopics