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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Software Labels - Vote time \o/
From:       Gary Greene <greeneg () tolharadys ! net>
Date:       2010-06-06 19:41:38
Message-ID: 201006061241.38949.greeneg () tolharadys ! net
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On Sunday 06 Jun 2010 7:58:57 am Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 June 2010 00:16:20 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> > It's time to set up the vote for the software label designs.
> > 
> > I have a draft article at:
> > http://dot.kde.org/2010/06/01/voting-opens-kde-software-label-designs
> > 
> > And the draft poll set up at:
> > http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=147&t=88231
> > You need some kind of forum privileges to view that page, mentor upwards
> > I think. A quick check from a few forum peeps should be sufficient. It
> > is very similar to the Javascript one at:
> > http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=157&t=86964
> > 
> > The original submissions are at:
> > http://community.kde.org/Promo/Branding/Software_Label
> > 
> > Feedback by end of *Thursday* please, then I'll try and get this all live
> > this weekend, with the poll running for one week. I'll try and be on irc
> > tomorrow as much as possible for discussions (jakamoko #kde-promo,
> > #kde-forums)
> > 
> > Some notes/questions:
> > - I've put the images used in the forum on my hosting. This shouldn't be
> > any problem (bandwidth for ~300k page views) and allowed me to scale/crop
> > the images and upload them by ftp rather than faff about with upload
> > pages and be sure they won't move. If they should be somewhere else I
> > can copy them over. - I have split the two entries from verbalshadow
> > (i.e the first set and 'iterations'). The voting system allows the user
> > to vote for as many entries as they like so I don't think this biases
> > towards or away from Verbalshadow's designs
> > - I haven't included the monochrome variations from Ivan
> > - The final entry (of ten) slips on to a second page on the forum. Is
> > there any way to either force it on page 1 or have a more even split of
> > 5 on each page? Does this seem like a problem to you? I have stated in
> > the intro that there are ten entries and reminded people to view them
> > all.
> > 
> > 
> > Proposed voting system:
> > 
> > 1. Panel: Justin, Jos, Cornelius, Me (people who volunteered before, if
> > anyone else particularly wants a voice, now is the time to say). Each
> > allocates a vote out of ten to each design.
> > 
> > 2. Forum: Votes for each entry on the forum are divided by the number of
> > votes gained by the most popular entry and then multiplied by ten
> > 
> > 3. Panel votes and normalised forum votes are summed for each entry. The
> > winner is the design with the highest score.
> > 
> > Therefore each panel member gets 20% say as do the forum votes.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Stu
> 
> I have casted my vote.
> 
> In a discussion about this with one of my friends who's a professional
> designer, he noted the following:
> 
> We should've briefed our contributors better. These badges must be about
> the KDE logo, as the KDE logo should convey who we are already. So have
> little around that - basically, the result should be boring but
> functional.
> 
> This is then what I rated the logo's on:
> - does it keep the current logo in tact
> - is it clear and functional
> - does it not 'add' anything
> 
> He noted you MIGHT want to do something with color (as #4 has done) but on
> second thought: the blue is so typical for KDE, don't screw with that.
> 
> In the end I gave the first one the highest mark, over 6 and 9 wich also
> comply with the rules I rated on because it has the clearest typography and
> least 'stuff'.
> 
> Interestingly enough the ratings by the community pretty much echo the
> sentiments I just gave (even though they give slightly higher ratings to
> #9). The others, while sometimes interesting, generally focussed on
> creating something new and interesting. Nice from a designers p.o.v., not
> good in this case...
> 
> Now we wait and see what the final result will be.
> 
> And yes, I know, a judge doesn't have to (probably even shouldn't) share
> his ideas on the design, but I thought these ideas were very sensible and
> we should be aware of them.
> 
> Especially for a next time, where we should work harder to clearly define
> what we are looking for!
> 
> Cheers,
> Jos

That and submissions should follow proper English. The lack of the "the" in 
many cases caused me to move on (mostly due to the fact that it looks awkward 
without it.....)

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