Re: Outreach Program for Women internship in graphic design

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

Hi Andreas,

Thank you for being willing to be a mentor for the program! Could you please add GNOME Art and the description of the types of projects you can mentor to the participating projects list?

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2010#participating-projects

We are in the middle of the application process right now with an application deadline October 25 and it's possible that you will be contacted by other applicants interested in graphic design. Please let me know if you have any questions about the program!

Thanks,
Marina

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Nilsson" <andreas andreasn se>
To: "Stormy Peters" <stormy gnome org>
Cc: "Sandy Armstrong" <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>, "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" <marinaz redhat com>, "consuelo olivares" <con85con gmail com>, gnome-themes-list gnome org, "women-outreach" <women-outreach gnome org>, "paul r cutler gmail com" <pcutler gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 6:58:36 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Outreach Program for Women internship in graphic design

On 10/13/2010 12:35 AM, Stormy Peters wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Sandy Armstrong
> <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>  wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Stormy Peters<stormy gnome org>  wrote:
>>> I don't know if this fits within graphics design or not but we need a
>>> logo for Tomboy Online, http://live.gnome.org/Snowy. (cc'ing Paul
>>> Cutler and Sandy Armstrong)
>> Yes, we definitely need this, but aren't qualified to mentor it. ;-)
>> I assume it's not enough work on its own, anyway?
>>
> Everyone applying to the program needs a project they can complete by
> October 25th as part of their application. Then if they get the
> internship, they'll need a 3 month project.
>
> I thought this might be a good application project, but I know nothing
> about creating logos. :)
A good logo takes quite some work and thinking into into it and is a 
good application project I think. Especially if we specify that we want 
one or two variants of it to choose from, exploring different approaches.
For a longer project, perhaps something related to Snowy would be good. 
The website graphics is already taken care of [1], but perhaps some 
texts for a information website and printed material could be good.
Another idea, if it turns out this person is good at logos, maybe we can 
assign her to doing logos. I'm sure we could find other logos that needs 
to be (re)done in GNOME.
I would be happy to mentor something like this.

Will also give some more thinking to this and ask around among the other 
designers and see if there is anything else that needs done.

1. http://live.gnome.org/Snowy/DesignerPlayground
- Andreas