Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Structure and Relationship [was: Struct.... : Design Team, Marketing Team (Summary, Proposal, ...)

Hi Christoph, all,

just a short more to come later (I hope)

Christoph Noack schrieb:
> Hi all,
> [...]
> INFRASTRUCTURE
>
> As far as I can see, there is no need for a dedicated Design section
> within the official website - except e.g. things like requests for
> contribution and collaboration. "Just" our results will be communicated
> by the software itself, and the website.

What about a download area for graphical elements / resources?

Officially approved artwork for usage outside the community (logos, web 
buttons, banners etc) should be available directly (after a notice about 
trademark and branding guidelines), perhaps with a feedback button or 
form, so we know about the numbers and places where they are used.

I could imagine people can leaving their email to be informed, when our 
branding will be modified to a larger scale.

Other officially approved design (like posters, presentation template, 
CD labels, merchandising ...) can be available only after logging in or 
can be presented at the wiki on a page that should not be modified by 
others than the design team.

> The recently set up design mailing list should suite our needs as well.
> No (urgent) need to further refine the mailing list structure.
+1
> For the wiki, there have been several proposals including best practices
> how to shape the titles (URLs). Based on these proposals and the
> structure, I do propose:
>        * Design: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design
>        * UXD: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/UXD
>        * VID: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/VID

I don't see a reason to add the cryptic abbreviations to the URLs.
Perhaps we will get used to them, but people without our background 
don't understand them at all, I fear.

Why can't we stay with /Design/ and add the relevant category to every page?

While I think it is reasonable to contain the main category in the URL, 
the URL would become too long for linking with more of them, while the 
additional information to the user is rather limited (especially with 
the abbr.).

Please keep in mind that our repositories might be translated to 
different languages - adding another /iso to the URL.

> Categories applied are "Design" (in any case), and "User Experience
> Design" and "Visual Identity Design".

+1
> One reason for keeping the UXD and VID items in a common "tree" is, that
> we share some common information. Refined target user descriptions
> (personas), or tooling are some of them ... Here is an example of the
> OOo UX tooling page I've created, maybe that helps to understand what I
> am thinking about :-) [2]

I understand that there are resources to be used by all designers (UX 
and VI). So I don't insist on adding /Visual Design/ or /User 
Experience/ to the URL.

But as mentioned above, the approach of leaving the sub-categories to 
the wiki categories and using a common URL /Design/ seems reasonable to 
me (and allows even shorter URL...).

Best regards

Bernhard

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