Re: GNOME Free Agent T-shirt Proposal

[Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com>]

Okay, no more votes.  However, the folks at Sugar Labs made a
small request that the text be changed a bit.

  GNOME, Sugar Labs, and OLPC empower previously marginalized
  children throughout the developing world to learn, achieve, and
  transform their communities.

That seems reasonable to me.  Does this sound good to people?

Brian


On 05/21/10 02:04 PM, Brian Cameron wrote:
> Out of the discussion so far I like 3 choices:
>
> #1) The original text
>
> GNOME technologies power SugarLabs and OLPC to help previously
> marginalized children throughout the developing world learn,
> achieve and begin to transform their communities.
>
> #2) Shorter version
>
> GNOME powers SugarLabs and OLPC
> Globally providing children with tools to
> learn, achieve, and transform their world.
>
> #3) Really short version
>
> GNOME powers SugarLabs and OLPC
> Enabling children to transform their world.
>
> Let's vote. I pick #2. I know Dave & Paul picked #1.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 05/19/10 09:27 PM, Paul Cutler wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 22:12 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
> > > > I like this revision much better. If we're still looking to shorten
> > > > it, how about "Globally providing" instead of "A global effort
> > > > providing"?
> > >
> > > I really liked the long flowing wordy version - a great message, great
> > > conversation starter, and the text was part of the design. I would love
> > > to wear the t-shirt with the initial design.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dave.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dave Neary
> > > GNOME Foundation member
> > > dneary gnome org
> >
> > After (finally!) catching up on this thread just now (great to see all
> > the activity on the marketing list!) I agree with Dave.
> >
> > Reading through some of the text / copy suggestions and putting my
> > documentation hat, I think to Brian's point of educating what GNOME is
> > powering / member of an ecosystem I'd leave it as it is in the first
> > design. I like how it flows as well on the shirt itself.
> >
> > Paul