[Mageia-artwork] Installer advertisement pictures

Thu Feb 23 21:46:24 CET 2012

(Sorry for those who got this mail twice, I had not completed my
+subscription to mageia-artwork at my first attempt to send it.)
+
+Hi guys,
+
+You may know that Mageia's installer shows some promotional pictures
+during the installation[1], which are supposed to demonstrate the main
+characteristics and assets of Mageia. For Mageia 1, a contributor took
+the time to design a few pictures to promote some aspects of Mageia,
+and these are still shown in the installer of Mageia 2 beta 1.
+Now, it would be good for Mageia 2's look that we design some new
+pictures. To do so, it could be great that Marcom and Artwork work
+together to come with a bunch of pretty professional-looking pictures
+which enforce Mageia's values and trademark.
+
+The fact is, artwork freeze is on March, 10th, i.e. in a bit more than
+two weeks. So we need to decide what we want to do, who will do it and
+using which resources and content.
+So, what are your ideas for these pictures?
+
+I had an initial idea, but you may find better ones. I thought that we
+could do 5 pictures, each dedicated to one of the core values of
+Mageia[2], i.e.:
+- Mageia is social software
+- Mageia is powerful technology
+- Mageia is knowledge
+- Mageia is quality
+- Mageia is open relations
+I have no idea about how these key points could be conveyed through
+artwork, but it could give us hints for the content.
+
+There could be other possibilities, such as promoting the content
+included in the distribution and the repositories: Mageia Control
+Center, LibreOffice, latest version of KDE, powerful IDEs, awesome
+games such as Battle for Wesnoth, etc..
+We could also focus on the community, displaying small overviews of
+the work of some of our teams, etc..
+
+So, what are your ideas?
+
+Regards,
+Rémi / Akien
+
+
+[1] See also bug #4651 on Bugzilla: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4651
+You'll find there a link to Mageia 1's pictures on the SVN.
+
+[2] http://www.mageia.org/en/about/values/
+