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The CentOS Project has a 10 year anniversary coming up -- 14 May 2004.
I've been meaning to bring this up for a while now, I reckon there are a few ideas floating around out there.
== Ideas
* New t-shirt design for the anniversary. * Another useful & meaningful easy giveaway, such as a new sticker sheet. * A month long party across the globe. * Anniversary cake at every Dojo for the next few months. * Website promotion - new content on the www.centos.org page top. * Social media campaign to support the above. * User videos - "How I use CentOS Linux" - "Happy birthday CentOS Project!" - "Why you might like CentOS ..." - Etc. * "Next 10 years" town hall sessions - live video chats with contributors and users about ideas for the project direction and roadmap for the next decade.
What other ideas do you have?
Who is interested in working on this?
I've invited Tuomas Kuosmanen to the discussion. He's been thinking about CentOS Project design things since last year, for example he designed the new www.centos.org site.
Thanks - Karsten - -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade .^\ CentOS Doer of Stuff http://TheOpenSourceWay.org \ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41
On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 14:16 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
The CentOS Project has a 10 year anniversary coming up -- 14 May 2004.
How about a genuinely 'CHIC' polo / tee-shirt design that people can wear with pride. A logo that commands respect and looks good in formal circumstances.
So far Centos tee-shirts have been loud and confrontational - certainly not to be worn in professional situations. Lets reverse that. Lets show our pride in being associated with Centos.
On 05/06/2014 12:33 AM, Always Learning wrote:
On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 14:16 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
The CentOS Project has a 10 year anniversary coming up -- 14 May 2004.
How about a genuinely 'CHIC' polo / tee-shirt design that people can wear with pride. A logo that commands respect and looks good in formal circumstances.
So far Centos tee-shirts have been loud and confrontational - certainly not to be worn in professional situations. Lets reverse that. Lets show our pride in being associated with Centos.
I have absolutely no problem in wearing http://www.zazzle.com/centos_double_sided_tshirt-235992580798034767 in any professional situation
On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 00:37 +0300, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
I have absolutely no problem in wearing http://www.zazzle.com/centos_double_sided_tshirt-235992580798034767 in any professional situation
Logo = too big
Price = too expensive
Colour = crap, no nice medium or light greyish colours which blend into all business situations
**** NO mention of the CENTOS name ****
Centos is NOT a rich man's toy. People all around the globe use Centos, often in poor countries where USD 36 plus delivery is TOO EXPENSIVE.
On 05/05/2014 05:37 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
On 05/06/2014 12:33 AM, Always Learning wrote:
On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 14:16 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
The CentOS Project has a 10 year anniversary coming up -- 14 May 2004.
How about a genuinely 'CHIC' polo / tee-shirt design that people can wear with pride. A logo that commands respect and looks good in formal circumstances.
So far Centos tee-shirts have been loud and confrontational - certainly not to be worn in professional situations. Lets reverse that. Lets show our pride in being associated with Centos.
I have absolutely no problem in wearing http://www.zazzle.com/centos_double_sided_tshirt-235992580798034767 in any professional situation
Wow. That's a seriously expensive tshirt.
And the message on the back is a very inside joke, and comes across as a little on the "I am a haxx0r" side for those who aren't in the know.
I suppose it depends on what one's professional situations look like.
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From: "Rich Bowen" rbowen@redhat.com To: centos-promo@centos.org Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 8:43:58 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS-promo] 10 year anniversary
On 05/05/2014 05:37 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
On 05/06/2014 12:33 AM, Always Learning wrote:
On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 14:16 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
The CentOS Project has a 10 year anniversary coming up -- 14 May 2004.
How about a genuinely 'CHIC' polo / tee-shirt design that people can wear with pride. A logo that commands respect and looks good in formal circumstances.
So far Centos tee-shirts have been loud and confrontational - certainly not to be worn in professional situations. Lets reverse that. Lets show our pride in being associated with Centos.
I have absolutely no problem in wearing http://www.zazzle.com/centos_double_sided_tshirt-235992580798034767 in any professional situation
Wow. That's a seriously expensive tshirt.
C'mon. Kanye gets $120 for a plain one. This one has a *logo* and everything!
(No, seriously, that's crazy expensive for a t-shirt. AND they want to charge extra for larger sizes.)
Without derailing the main thread, it'd be nice to find a good online store that lets people buy a CentOS-branded shirt without spending more than $10-$12.
Best,
jzb
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On 05/05/2014 02:33 PM, Always Learning wrote:
On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 14:16 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
The CentOS Project has a 10 year anniversary coming up -- 14 May 2004.
How about a genuinely 'CHIC' polo / tee-shirt design that people can wear with pride. A logo that commands respect and looks good in formal circumstances.
BTW, as a separate thread, I wanted to tackle the inconsistency we have in logos - get us to pick one logo, colorset, and font to go with. I'll start this on centos-devel.
So far Centos tee-shirts have been loud and confrontational - certainly not to be worn in professional situations. Lets reverse that. Lets show our pride in being associated with Centos.
What ideas do you have for a design?
- - Karsten - -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade .^\ CentOS Doer of Stuff http://TheOpenSourceWay.org \ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41
On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 14:44 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
BTW, as a separate thread, I wanted to tackle the inconsistency we have in logos - get us to pick one logo, colorset, and font to go with. I'll start this on centos-devel.
What ideas do you have for a design?
What is needed is a logo and the Centos name. Most business people have never heard of Linux - they only know about Micro$oft even though using Centos can save a large organisation vast amounts of money.
The design must look neat and appealing. It should eventually become immediately identifiable with something suggesting professional quality and reliability. Ultimately it should be something even the suit wearing CEO would consider wearing.
A unique combination of colours and the brand name. For example (and its only spontaneous) the name CentOS in a nice typeface (font) above an eye catching display of colours. Or, a large C with smaller 'entos' over some eye catching colours. The presentation of the name and the colour combination should look expensive, chic and desirable to wear even for those you do not wish to be considered computer nerds (and similar).
Once the name+logo are established there is a massive marketing opportunity for more brash styles such as a women's pink top with (for example) "I'm a Centos girl", "I'm a Centos babe" or even "Speak Centos to me". The more casual exploitation of the Centos name+logo is infinite. But the corporate acceptability of a really chic, smart, attractive and desirable name+logo is long overdue and essential to pushing Centos into the M$ dominated corporate world.
Making the polo / tee-shirt affordable is also of major importance. That means direct factory supplies from Asia, in variety of colours and sizes. Letting local print shops do the work means no effective quality control and thus potentially damaging to the Centos brand image.
Next question is printing or embroidery ?
One advantage of a quality product sold at a cheap price is greater sales. The more Centos garments worn, the greater the penetration into the general public sphere = more interest and curiosity about Centos.
Also needed is a Centos (name and logo) pin badge.
Ideally a Centos marketing company should be established to bring Centos products into the general public arena but always at an affordable price. Ideally the company should be established in China:-
* where postal rates to the rest of the world are cheap
* products are cheap
and sales made through Ebay for example.
On 05/06/2014 08:14 AM, Always Learning wrote:
Most business people have never heard of Linux - they only know about Micro$oft even though using Centos can save a large organisation vast amounts of money.
Do you have any sources for this?
That's a pretty broad sweeping statement to proclaim without solid facts to back it up, especially when it goes against a number of Red Hat's marketing claims.
IBM has been selling support for Linux since 1999, Dell has been shipping it on servers since about the time they started and Google has always been quite vocal about the amount of Linux they use. Most Universities here in AU, even in their most Microsoft-centric courses, still cover linux and it's use in the BIS sphere.
regards
Steve
On Mon, 5 May 2014, Karsten Wade wrote:
The CentOS Project has a 10 year anniversary coming up -- 14 May 2004.
not sure where ** that ** date comes from
From: caos@caosity.org (Rocky McGaugh) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 09:30:23 -0600 (CST) Subject: [cAos] Announce: centos Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0312090905120.10370-100000@rocky
The cAos-EL projects have been officially renamed to:
centos (Community ENTerprise Operating System)
This only affects caosel1 and caosel2.
This is partly an aid in dispelling the version confusion.
======== centos-1
Description: centos-1 is a freely distributable OS built from the source at:
-- Russ herrold
On 05/05/2014 05:55 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
On Mon, 5 May 2014, Karsten Wade wrote:
The CentOS Project has a 10 year anniversary coming up -- 14 May 2004.
not sure where ** that ** date comes from
From: caos@caosity.org (Rocky McGaugh) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 09:30:23 -0600 (CST) Subject: [cAos] Announce: centos Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0312090905120.10370-100000@rocky
The cAos-EL projects have been officially renamed to:
centos (Community ENTerprise Operating System)This only affects caosel1 and caosel2.
This is partly an aid in dispelling the version confusion.
======== centos-1
Description: centos-1 is a freely distributable OS built from the source at:
-- Russ herrold
The first thing we, the CentOS Board, decided was that we would base the anniversary on a release date and not a formation date. We decided that it was when something was accomplished, not when something was formed ... and we wanted to base the anniversary a release.
Then we needed to pick which release we wanted to base it on. We decided to base it on the release date of CentOS-2.1.
Technically, the CentOS-3.1 release date (19 March 2004) happened earlier than the CentOS-2.1 release date (14 May 2004) ... but since EL 2.1 was released before EL 3.0 (or 3.1) by Red Hat, we decided to go with the CentOS-2.1 release date.
So, that is the reason.
Thanks for your input.
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