[Clipart] Release Theme Idea

[Bryce Harrington]

Ahh!  The clip art logo sounds like a good idea for a theme to me.  :-)

Bryce

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:

> 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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