I like the idea about the seasonal motifs! (although we still have the 2 hemispheres to deal with)

Had to look up "Google doodle style artwork" (I'm not a google user). How would we ever find out about these more or less obscure events (Kazakhstan Republic Day showed up in my search)? You could almost put one single person whose full time job is identifying them!

I wonder how google decides who draws the graphics? Do they just take submissions?

Like maybe we would put certain guidelines (so that we don't end up celebrating some rogue regime or something) and just allow people to submit them? Because they only "run" for a day, right? I suppose we could have them up for any amount of time we choose.

brynn

-----Original Message----- From: C R Sent: Friday, December 22, 2017 1:20 AM To: Brynn Cc: Martin Owens ; inkscape-docs ; Inkscape-Devel Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-docs] holiday graphics for website?

Maybe seasonal motifs would be better. Snow flakes and mittens and skis work nicely. Maybe hot chocolate, snowball fights and other winter activities for a secular holiday season. :) fall might see fallen leaves placed around, flowers for spring and summer. Would be kinda cool to do a Google doodle style artwork to celebrate specific holidays when they come up, which is in lusive rather than exclusive, but obviously that would take a lot more work.

My 2p -C

On 22 Dec 2017 5:30 am, "brynn" <brynn@...78...> wrote: The biggest consideration for things like this is the both western centric and perceivably christian/pagan centric traditions.

That's why I said "holiday" and not "Christmas" or "Hanukah" or "Kwanza" or etc. Most all faiths and religions have some kind of winter celebration - something for every season. It's why I also added a suggestion about doing it for seasons, rather than holidays. Although then there's the problem with seasons, when it's winter in the northern hemisphere, it's summer in the southern.

Usually when people decorate their website, they do it for wherever the website lives. Because really, it's impossible to please everyone. I think as long as it's something small, which does not appear to cram anything down anyone's throat, it should be ok. For example, even if there's a little decoration for spring, but it's autumn where some people live, I think it will still be seen as a nice graphic.

But mostly, I think it would be sad if we have to say we can never decorate the website, because it's impossible to please everyone. /That/ would be sad!

And also, I think we have to start somewhere, with getting more graphics throughout the site.

Maybe it would be better not to have just 1 graphic? Maybe there could be a collection of graphics which represent all the major religions or faiths, and some kind of script serves them up at random?

All best, brynn

-----Original Message----- From: Martin Owens Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 4:22 PM To: brynn ; Inkscape-Docs Cc: Inkscape-Devel Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] holiday graphics for website?

Hi Brynn,

The poster originally emailed me directly and I asked them to post the image to the gallery and then post a message to the inkscape mailing list. Mostly just to see what people were thinking.

I like the idea personally. But I see some challenges to it professionally.

The biggest consideration for things like this is the both western centric and perceivably christian/pagan centric traditions. If images can be targeted, then it makes it easier to just show it for certain countries etc. If we don't mind being a bit blustering and ham fisted about it, then putting up a replacement image is just a matter of a small code update to the website.

Although then you do have to look after the site later when you need it to come down.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

On Wed, 2017-12-20 at 14:19 -0700, brynn wrote: Hi Friends, I'm thinking about starting a tradition of making holiday graphics for the website. Like for example, today I spiffed up the logo for Inkscape Community with some lights (not twinkling, but maybe next year ;-p ). https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php I'm thinking of just something small and simple like that. Holly and berries, or something.

We couldn't do exactly the same thing on the website, because the logo doesn't work the same way as IC. (plus it's pretty small) But there must be some ways to easily slip in some extra graphics into the website?

Like maybe in the menu/navigation bar? (could they be red and green? or look like snow is piled on them?) Or the white space between the logo on the top-left and the search field on the right?

I saw that cute Inkscape logo with a santa hat in the gallery (https://inkscape.org/en/~jiawhein/%E2%98%85inkscape-logo-christmas), and that's what got me started. But unfortunately, it has a solid white background, which I don't think could be used for the site. I requested either SVG or a transparent PNG, but no answer yet.

I made some sort of straight lines of lights, one of which might fit in the white space at the top. But alone, they're hardly creative.

Anyway, if someone could explain what those ways might be, where we could sneak in some cute graphics around holidays, I'll take the responsibility to put out a call for such graphics before each major holiday.....or maybe just 4 seasons? Or maybe holidays plus 4 seasons?

(I still want to see more graphics on the site, in general. But that's a much bigger project which I can't take a leadership role right now. Well, not unless someone else wants to co-leader it?)

Thanks for comments :-)

All best, brynn

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