Call for marketing

[Chris Gummin]

Hey, everyone. As the release of Andromeda comes nearer and nearer, we would like some advertising materials made. Could someone make promotional posters or something. Posters should fit on a US regular 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper.

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Would love to make something but i am not sure how much further i can stretch my time table. I might just throw up some ideas that could be further developed later to start with.

How soon would we need this?

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

WE would need this before the 0.1.1 release.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

In a few weeks, we'd need this. I think we could use the phrase "sometimes there is no such thing as unity", and do a few different color schemes with the different colored UGR saturn logos (blue, brown, gray, etc)

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

'Sometimes there is no such thing as unity'? That's a rather disconcerting phrase. How about 'Lightyears ahead'? or 'A galaxy of change'?

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Did a quick sketch up... but my computer barely holds up working on such large images. Also Gimp are not very good for this type of tasks. What are the closest to Quark Express on Linux?

What about "From here and beyond, UGR" as a catch phrase?

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

You could try Scribus and KWord. I like the catch phrase. Also the rocket looks a tad weird. Could you do it like the Space Shuttle or Russia's Buran?

[Davide Alberelli (dadexix86)]

I'm not good at all at graphics, but the shuttle looks to me like a middle
finger, so probably it is what looks like to anyone that sees it the first
time ;)

2011/5/8 Chris Gummin <email address hidden>

> You could try Scribus and KWord. I like the catch phrase. Also the
> rocket looks a tad weird. Could you do it like the Space Shuttle or
> Russia's Buran?
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> Call for marketing
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> Bug description:
> Hey, everyone. As the release of Andromeda comes nearer and nearer, we
> would like some advertising materials made. Could someone make
> promotional posters or something. Posters should fit on a US regular
> 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper.
>
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[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

Yeah, I agree with Davide. The rocket should look more like this one. http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/thumb/4/4d/Rocket_001.png/800px-Rocket_001.png

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

@Chris: I could give it a try.. i am not sure i got talent enough though. It is one thing to just put some lines up and a completely other to make some thing look as in the real world. I will give Scribus a try.. but thought that was for writing. Anyway... hope to get something better together soon ;)

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

@Chris: That second rocket was little what i was aiming for. I made the sketch just to show the elements and how i was generally thinking. Thanks for the feed back ;)

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Still thinkering but have done some more work...

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Another one but in green...

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

And a third but with added stars and nicer location of the web-address..

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you change the catch phrase to 'onward and upward'? and change the font that says ugr to the Ubuntu font?

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Sure.. am on it! Also... the "ugr" are with the ubuntu font already ;)

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

I was using a computer without the font installed... Otherwise, Cool. Can you take the shadowing away from the rocket?

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Without shadow... ;)

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

That looks great. How about some different color themed versions?

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Made two more...

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

New ideas for marketing - it centers around all of the crappiness that windows has, yet people still pay hundreds of dollars for it
Don't pay for blue screens
Don't pay for crashes
Don't pay for 50,000 viruses
etc, etc

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Made a new poster...

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

Maybe remove 'stinking' and 'Windows'. Also, 'freedom' should be 'free'.

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

And can the rocket be flying?

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

Once this is done, we need to use some viral marketing and such. have we decided on a name that can fit the space theme?

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

With the viral campaign, we should have different ideas. one could play up the no viruses, another the freeness, yet another could show that we have games (I love minecraft)

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Will do an update on poster6 as soon as i can

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

Any work?

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

anything?