[Clipart] Release Theme Idea

[Jon Phillips]

I would say the theme is the clip art logo. Is anyone gonna submit their
vote??? How about we move the deadline to FRIDAY for votes to come
in...since there have been none and this list has been virtually
dead...it must be end of summer vacationing :)

Jon


On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 20:22, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> We've got a release coming up in about a week -- do we want to declare a
> theme for it?  Given that there's only a little time left it might not
> be worthwhile, but for continuity's sake may be of value.  Ideas?
> 
> Bryce
> 
> On Sat, 1 May 2004, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > 
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