Re: Request for budget to update the event box contents

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 8 February 2018 at 12:16, Allan Day <aday gnome org> wrote:
> Replying selectively...
>
> Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com> wrote:
> ...
> > There was already one in the US when I was on the board, what's happened to it?
> >
> > https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Box/NorthAmerica
>
> As far as I know, Emily still has it. This has been discussed at
> various points while I've been on the board and I'm not entirely sure
> what the current status is. It's possible that we decided that the box
> is too big to be practical, but I might be wrong about that.

I think that box is the same size as the smaller European box. If
there was a size issue, then it would make sense to have a critical
look at what it would be used for and how it would be transported.
e.g. if it's always transported by someone rather than shipped, then a
smaller suitcase could work, but contents would be restricted to
pretty much laptop and stickers.

If the box will be shipped, my recommendation after having gone
through 4 cases is to go for heavy duty ones because while they are
heavy, they won't need to be replaced every year.

> ...
> > > By the way, what color banner are you planning on buying? Since the
> > > Foundation color is green and the project color is blue, we have been
> > > encouraging people to try to go for blue when getting banners and things for
> > > booths. This isn't a formal policy of course and it'd be great to hear your
> > > thoughts on this.
> >
> > Our table cloth is green because we wanted to use the Foundation
> > colour. The roller banner is blue. One of the old banners is green and
> > the other is blue. As we're next to the KDE stand, if we have only
> > blue banners, we blend in too much and it looks weird. Also, we do
> > represent the Foundation rather than just the project at FOSDEM. i.e.
> > we talk about the Foundaiton and the work that it does, we've signed
> > people up for FoG before, etc. I don't know how much this is the case
> > at other events though.
>
> I'd like to encourage people to use the colours in the draft brand
> guidelines. There was a fair amount of work put into these, and it's
> important that we use consistent branding wherever possible.

The best we can do for banners is to vaguelly match the colours anyway
unless we go for printing services which are ~2 or more times as
expensive. As they get a lot of use, it's not economical to compromise
on quality.

> > > For print outs, we are trying to have more of a consistent brand. To help
> > > with that we have these draft brand guidelines for designers:
> > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/brand/style-guide.png
> > > and
> > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/brand/style-examples.png
> >
> > Can these please be moved to GNOME infrastructure? It's weird that our
> > official branding guidelines are not hosted by us.
>
> The fact that they're in Github is probably down to two factors:
>
>  1. Github is where we keep source files and in-development work for design
>  2. While I would like to encourage people to follow the guidelines,
> they're still a bit rough in places and need to be finished. Once
> that's happened we'll probably have a PDF on GNOME infrastructure
> somewhere.
>
> There are various historical reasons for 1, including technical
> limitations of GNOME infrastructure. With the shift to Gitlab those
> might be resolved, and we're experimenting with using it for future
> design work.
>
> Allan