Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: [gubro-br] [OT] Open Letter to the design team

On 23 February 2011 13:43, Christian Lohmaier <
lohmaier+libreoffice@googlemail.com> wrote:

> HI Paulo,
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Paulo de Souza Lima
> <paulo.s.lima@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It seems there are unhappy people out there. Have you seen this?
> http://thelinuxbox.org/news.php?2011/02/21/an-open-letter-to-the-libre-office-design-team.html
>
> "open letter" sounds as he would have tried to communicate directly
> beforehand, at least for the website I don't remember anything like
> that. Probably the same for the artwork - commenting from the outside
> without being involved..
>
> Regarding his proposed icons: Always much easier to create huge ones
> that look nice, but those aren't for real-live use. Unless I see ones
> in the range of 20px... And while the globe idea is not bad, he did
> choose only to display north america...
>
> "Everything in this presentation was done in a day, therefore a
> dedicated team of volunteers should be able to achieve much more than
> me."
>
> <yawn/>
>
> But bad press is better than no press (when it's clear that its a
> personal view, not presented as "facts")...


Why not contact him and invite him to join and contribute to the project?
 Maybe he just doesn't know how to go about it?

ciao
> Christian
>
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