Dear all,
Thanks to Golden Ribbon (inkscape user and maker of recently good tutorials) he's provided to us some graphics for encouraging more donations through affiliate links.
They look really nice too. I've just finished adding them to the English page on the website.
If you go to https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/donate/ you will see the new images and the copy-paste html if you want to add a link to your own website to support inkscape.
Golden Ribbon is also interested in making t-shirts and other mechanise; we don't yet have anyone (I know of) who is skilled or interested in looking into merchandise, but maybe if we had some nice designs someone would step forwards to add this feature.
What are your thoughts?
Best Regards, Martin Owens
Hi Friends, There seems to be some kind of trend/fad, at least in the US, among mostly women I guess (possibly bored housewives), to color, like in coloring books, like everyone did when they were children. The only difference is that the designs are not of cartoon characters, and usually abstract, geometric, or nature type of drawings. And I guess mostly they use markers or colored pencils, rather than crayons. (http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aadult%20colo...) (and I even saw an info-mercial on tv the other day, selling adult coloring books!)
Inkscape seems to me like a perfect tool for creating these designs. And I've thought a collection of either downloads, (or if someone wanted to go the trouble of publishing a collection), could be sold, and the proceeds donated back to the Inkscape project.
I've been working on some designs, and thought I would offer them for download from my site. And try to advertise on whatever kind of social media sites where these people gather (Groan -- I might have to actually join FB or other similar.) I'd have to see some success from that, before I would get involved with PayPal, or whatever.
But if Inkscape had a site for t-shirts and other merchandise, etc. that certainly would be more convenient for me (especially if I'm doing it alone -- not much interest in my postings, so far). Calendars would be another nice product, where the artwork was made with Inkscape. Maybe there could even be a contest to choose 12 images!
Of course, I don't have the skills to make any kind of custom webpage or store. I could do a simple page using the django editor or simple html, but it would be extremely simple. (There must be an open source webstore app out there -- maybe even django?)
But I'd be happy to make coloring pages, or run a contest to create an Inkscape calendar. Or possibly other stuff, if anyone has other ideas. (The Grays merchandise?)
All best, brynn
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...155...> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 9:45 PM To: "inkscape-devel" inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; "inkscape-user" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: "Golden Ribbon" <water.ribbon@...155...> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] New Donate Link Graphics
Dear all,
Thanks to Golden Ribbon (inkscape user and maker of recently good tutorials) he's provided to us some graphics for encouraging more donations through affiliate links.
They look really nice too. I've just finished adding them to the English page on the website.
If you go to https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/donate/ you will see the new images and the copy-paste html if you want to add a link to your own website to support inkscape.
Golden Ribbon is also interested in making t-shirts and other mechanise; we don't yet have anyone (I know of) who is skilled or interested in looking into merchandise, but maybe if we had some nice designs someone would step forwards to add this feature.
What are your thoughts?
Best Regards, Martin Owens
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Brynn <brynn@...3089...> wrote:
(The Grays merchandise?)
Thanks for the hat tip, Brynn, but based on our abject failure to sell much merchandise via our own website, I'm not sure The Greys (with an "e", 'cos we're English) could bring in much money for Inkscape.
Aside: we initially tried selling merch to cover our hosting costs, but the total amount of profit we've made from this over the past 6 years doesn't even cover 2 months of hosting! Now that we're producing the Elvie strip for Linux Voice magazine (using a combination of MyPaint and Inkscape), and getting paid for it, we've been able to cover our hosting *and* made a small donation to Inkscape last year. Unfortunately, however, more time on Elvie means less time on The Greys, which is why there hasn't been a new strip for many, many months :(
Mark
Sorry about top posting but I have a HUGE issue with the fact that the Inkscape logo was not used in those images. It resembles the logo, but it is NOT our logo. It is not as clean as our logo. It was immediately noticeable to me and it is not acceptable to dilute our branding.
In the "branding" subfolder under "share", is a "draw-freely.svg" that has our old flat logo which is what should be used. This needs to be done ASAP so these incorrect ones are not redistributed.
Cheers, Josh
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote:
Dear all,
Thanks to Golden Ribbon (inkscape user and maker of recently good tutorials) he's provided to us some graphics for encouraging more donations through affiliate links.
They look really nice too. I've just finished adding them to the English page on the website.
If you go to https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/donate/ you will see the new images and the copy-paste html if you want to add a link to your own website to support inkscape.
Golden Ribbon is also interested in making t-shirts and other mechanise; we don't yet have anyone (I know of) who is skilled or interested in looking into merchandise, but maybe if we had some nice designs someone would step forwards to add this feature.
What are your thoughts?
Best Regards, Martin Owens
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On Tue, 2016-02-23 at 09:21 -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
Sorry about top posting but I have a HUGE issue with the fact that the Inkscape logo was not used in those images. It resembles the logo, but it is NOT our logo. It is not as clean as our logo. It was immediately noticeable to me and it is not acceptable to dilute our branding.
Do you want the white back-line removed or can that stay?
In the "branding" subfolder under "share", is a "draw-freely.svg" that has our old flat logo which is what should be used. This needs to be done ASAP so these incorrect ones are not redistributed.
They won't be redistributed, the html code feeds into fastly cache, so unless people save them it's fine.
Martin,
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote:
On Tue, 2016-02-23 at 09:21 -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
Sorry about top posting but I have a HUGE issue with the fact that the Inkscape logo was not used in those images. It resembles the logo, but it is NOT our logo. It is not as clean as our logo. It was immediately noticeable to me and it is not acceptable to dilute our branding.
Do you want the white back-line removed or can that stay?
The white line surrounding it isn't an issue, but I'd be curious to see it both with and without.
In the "branding" subfolder under "share", is a "draw-freely.svg" that has our old flat logo which is what should be used. This needs to be done ASAP so these incorrect ones are not redistributed.
They won't be redistributed, the html code feeds into fastly cache, so unless people save them it's fine.
I just tend to be concerned about people saving stuff which is why I brought it up... so, I suppose redistributed was a worse choice of words than available. :)
Cheers, Josh
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:27:01AM -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote:
On Tue, 2016-02-23 at 09:21 -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
Sorry about top posting but I have a HUGE issue with the fact that the Inkscape logo was not used in those images. It resembles the logo, but it is NOT our logo. It is not as clean as our logo. It was immediately noticeable to me and it is not acceptable to dilute our branding.
Do you want the white back-line removed or can that stay?
The white line surrounding it isn't an issue, but I'd be curious to see it both with and without.
In the "branding" subfolder under "share", is a "draw-freely.svg" that has our old flat logo which is what should be used. This needs to be done ASAP so these incorrect ones are not redistributed.
They won't be redistributed, the html code feeds into fastly cache, so unless people save them it's fine.
I just tend to be concerned about people saving stuff which is why I brought it up... so, I suppose redistributed was a worse choice of words than available. :)
Good catch, yes I agree this should be fixed. Do you think it'll take more than a day or two to get them fixed up? If it will take longer, should we perhaps hide these incorrect ones on the website? Josh has a good point that images posted to the internet can sometimes get copied around inadvertantly...
Bryce
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