[Kolab-devel] btw, an intro to why i'm suddenly here =P

[Martin Konold]

Am Freitag, 24. Juni 2005 03:56 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:

Hi Aaron,

> 	http://aseigo.bddf.ca/dms/32/211_kolab_admin.png

> you'll probably notice a couple things about it right away: a) it's a bit
> prettier than what exists in CVS and 

Yes, it is indeed much prettier.

> b) there's no mention of kolab. 

This is not common. Why would it hurt in mention Kolab?

Are you intending to also remove the credits?

> i'll be submitting a patch for (a) sometime in the next few days as i think
> it really makes a significant difference to things.

So this means that we can reuse everything except the upper left logo? To me 
it looks like the other artwork is from KDE.

Did you use css?

> as for (b), the reason for no mention of kolab once you are in the admin
> area is that i'm doing work for a local IT consultancy building up a set of
> software that they are selling into the SMB market as a SMB server stack.
> it's Kubuntu (with KDE installed) + a variety of server solutions (e.g.
> kolab) + a variety of graphical server config tools (some web based, some
> KDE). we're branding pretty much everything we can, and for fairly obvious
> reasons.

I don't see the obvious reason why it is a good idea to remove the name Kolab 
from the admin interface entirely?

> 	http://bddf.ca/~aseigo/kolab_admin_login.png

I am fine with that.

> the phrase "The Open Source Groupware Solution" is linked to kolab.org. so
> every time they log in via the web they see, front and centre, the name of
> the project and have a link to the project page. i hope that makes up for
> my replacing the kolab logo with the IT consultancy's logo in the upper
> left.

I am fine with replacement of the logo but in case you remove credits I have 
definetly a problem with it.

> in fact, i feel that this sort of branding is a plus for kolab since it
> encourages regional IT consultancies with an SMB focus to take advantage of
> thesse tools. and i personally believe very strongly that the SMB market is
> critical for our (free / open source) initiatives right now and that the
> only rational way to reach them is by harnessing the regional IT
> consultancies en mass. that was a big part of the idea behind the
> Microsoft's, Cisco's, Novell's, etc... certification programs, no?

This paragrapgh makes no sense to me. Are you trying to tell me that anyone 
was ever allowed to remove MS branding or credits from any MS product??!!

Regards,
-- martin

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