as an offspring of the http://drupal.org/node/894030 (marketing release d7) issue,
how about running on as many websites as possible a banner looking like the personal appela banner on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) but then with dries. Can be localized (but will take much more time)
see attachment (with and without text)
then the link should go to an articel on d.o about why dries thinks that people should upgrade to d7. it can be funny -if done right- if the text is loosly based on te orginal appeal from wikipedia, though we have to be carefull with this. of cource, since the the text suggests that it is dries' appeal, dries should be okay with this as well.
people should be able to easy copy the code (hence, make a a href hosted pic on d.o with link towards d.o/landingpage
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #7 | please read drupal founder.psd_.zip | 241.9 KB | mo6 |
| #6 | please-read-drupal-founder-2.png | 80.36 KB | mo6 |
| #1 | please read drupal founder no text.png | 65.59 KB | bertboerland |
| please read drupal founder.png | 79.72 KB | bertboerland | |
| please read drupal founder.png | 79.72 KB | bertboerland |
Comments
Comment #1
bertboerland commentedand now with the right image (no text)
Comment #2
BarisW commentedLove it! +1
Comment #3
rolf van de krol commentedSounds like a good idea to me!
Comment #4
mo6Please use a "proper" font, Helvetica/Arial is sooo boring (but don't "overdo" it)
For inspiration: http://www.1001freefonts.com/headline-fonts.php
Comment #5
bertboerland commentedgeorge, there is text free version as well, be my guest :-)
Comment #6
mo6Took the liberty to elaborate a bit on Berts version.
Comment #7
mo6Photoshop version attached.
Comment #8
droplet commentedoh my god. this banner make me LOL
Comment #9
Amazon commentedWe are developing Drupal 7 banners and buttons.
The banners will be using the Drupal.org branding including the same color and typography. The banners focus on the Drupal 7 release parties, and getting started with Drupal 7.
Please join the Drupal 7 release public relations meeting 3 next Tuesday. http://groups.drupal.org/node/114144
Comment #10
geerlingguy commentedWhile this may be relatively humorous (and I kinda like it), I think it's not very original, and doesn't really help the Drupal cause. Drupal is not a 'not for profit' that depends on appeals to raise money to continue its survival. Rather, it's a large community of developers and end users who somehow band together to make great software.
Something like this banner, which attaches a single person to the Drupal 7 initiative, might make it seem that Dries is the 'CEO' of Drupal, as it were. Not to discount his amazing help, his ownership of the domain, and his great leadership... but webchick, chx, sun, etc. (sorry to leave you out, other 997 people!) are all as heavily invested in this release.
I don't know, it just rubs me the wrong way for a public image.
Comment #11
bertboerland commented@geerling
It is indeed a way of marketing Drupal that is at its best "leaning" against another (good) cause and might in fact have some counter issues. Also, I do agree on personalising the work of 1000s in one person (Dries) is not doing the commonity any good.
Still, that can all be addressed in the landing page? As a teaser it is working rather well I think?
Comment #12
coltraneI'm not in favor of this banner for a couple reasons,
1. It duplicates another (and different) groups efforts
2. Dries is not the "face" of Drupal
3. The banner message has nothing to do with the Drupal 7 release (only once clicked through)
so, I'm -1
Comment #13
islandlinux commentedI am interested in multiple banners with different styles.
+1
Comment #14
Bojhan commentedSo while its an interesting approach for Wikipedia's approach and clearly worked well for them, it probably won't work for Drupal for various reasons :
1) Its a duplication, not original therefor less appealing as funny as it is.
2) We disrupt the site, so it will only be placed on blogs of people who are already over :)
3) It will be hard to find something that appeals to people but also shows off Drupal 7
So although a interesting option, it might be more worthwhile to spend time on other PR activities. I feel proper updates to important tech sites is one of them.
Comment #15
drummhttps://infrastructure.drupal.org/drupal.org-style-guide/brand.html has the guidelines used for the Drupal.org redesign. Please keep this in mind. (Related, #947638: Convert MBD Visual Language style guide to docs nodes on d.o. is about bringing those resources onto *.drupal.org itself.)
The personal note doesn't work at all. In addition to the reasons above, we have a completely different goal. Fundraising is different from promoting a new version and deserves different treatment.
Comment #16
drummI should say the placement on the Drupal.org homepage is 300x100. If it is an image/text ad, the height will scale to the text.
Comment #17
bertboerland commented@drumm, it was not meant for d.o but for "bloggers"
Comment #18
tvn commentedTo add to all mentioned reasons against this banner: wikipedia's one became quite annoying by now and is the source for all kinds of jokes all over Internet, so if Drupal will also join this trend it might just have negative effect.
I think it must be something more unique for such an event as new version release.
Comment #19
EvanDonovan commentedThis seems obnoxious and obtrusive, as others have said. I don't think people would click so much as be annoyed.
Comment #20
bertboerland commentedMost people think it doenst do justice to the power of the community (although more people contributed to wiki then to drupal :-) and it harms another good case.
http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-7-link-to-us#Countdown is much better (although I fail to see why is needs or has blessing from the DA)