diff --git a/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Directories/trunk/Identity.docbook b/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Directories/trunk/Identity.docbook new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ca4f962 --- /dev/null +++ b/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Directories/trunk/Identity.docbook @@ -0,0 +1,261 @@ + + + <filename class="directory">trunk/Identity</filename> + + The trunk/Identity + directory implements The CentOS Project corporate + identity based on the The CentOS Project + mission and release + schema. + + + + The corporate mission + + The CentOS Project exists to provide The CentOS + Distribution. Additionally, The CentOS Project provides The + CentOS Web and The CentOS Showroom to support and promote the + existence of The CentOS Distribution, respectively. + + + + + The corporate identity + + The CentOS Project corporate identity is the ``persona'' + of the organization known as The CentOS Project. The CentOS + Project corporate identity plays a significant role in the way + The CentOS Project, as organization, presents itself to both + internal and external stakeholders. In general terms, The + CentOS Project corporate identity expresses the values and + ambitions of The CentOS Project organization, its business, + and its characteristics. + + The CentOS Project corporate identity provides + visibility, recognizability, reputation, structure and + identification to The CentOS Project organization by means of + corporate design, corporate + communication, and corporate + behaviour. + + + + + + The corporate design + + The corporate design is focused on the effective + communication of corporate messages. Corporate messages are + all the information emitted from the corporation to a target + audience. In order for such communication to happen, it is + required to put the messages on a medium available for the + target audience to react upon. These media are know as + corporate manifestations, because the + corporation manifests its existence through them. The specific + way used by the corporation to set their messages on different + media is what the corporate design is about. + + The amount of manifestations a corporation uses to + communicate its existence may very from one corporation to + another. In the very specific case of The CentOS Project, the + following corporate manifestations come to mind: + + + + + The CentOS Distribution — The CentOS + Distribution corporate manifestaion is made from SRPM + packages. There are packages that make a remarkable + use of images (e.g., Anaconda, Grub, Syslinux, Gdm, + Kdm, Gsplash, Ksplash, Rhgb, Firstboot, etc.), + packages that make a moderated use of images and + packages that don't use images at all. Also, there + are some packages that make use of text-based + information that need to be changed, too (e.g., + release notes, eula, the welcome page of the web + browser, etc.), in order for The CentOS Project to + comply with upstream's redistribution guidelines. The + CentOS Distribution corporate manifestation focuses + its attention on SRPM packages that do use images in a + remarkable way, specifically those packages that + involve upstream branding, and those files with + text-based information that need to be changed. This + way, through image and text-based files, is + implemented the corporate design of The CentOS + Distribution corporate manifestations (i.e., all the + releases of the operating system). + + + + + The CentOS Web — This corporate + manifestation exists to support The CentOS + Distribution corporate manifestation. The CentOS Web + corporate manifestation covers web applications used + by The CentOS Project to manifest its existence on the + Internet. These web applications are free software + and come from different providers which distribute + their work with predefined visual styles. Frequently, + these predefined visual styles have no visual relation + among themselves and introduce some visual + contraditions when they all are put together. These + visual contraditions need to be removed in order to + comply with The CentOS Project corporate structure + guidelines. + + + + + The CentOS Showroom — This corporate + manifestation exists to promote The CentOS + Distribution. The CentOS Showroom corporate + manifestation covers industrial production of objects + branded by The CentOS Project (e.g., clothes, + stationery and installation media). These branded + objects are for distribution on social events and/or + shops. They provide a way of promotion and a route + for commercialization that may help to aliviate The + CentOS Project expenses (e.g., hosting, servers, + full-time-developers, etc.), in a similar way as + donations may do. + + + + + The corporate manifestations above seem to cover all the + media required by The CentOS Project, as organization, to show + its existence. However, other corporate manifestations could + be added in the future, if needed, to cover different areas + like building, offices, transportation and whaterver medium + The CentOS Project thouches to show its existence. + + + + + + The corporate communication + + The CentOS Project corporate communication is based on + community communication and takes place + through the following avenues: + + + The CentOS Chat (#centos, #centos-social}, +#centos-devel on irc.freenode.net) + The CentOS Mailing Lists (). + The CentOS Forums (). + The CentOS Wiki (). + Social events, interviews, conferences, etc. + + + + + + + + + The corporate behaviour + + The CentOS Project corporate behaviour is based on + community behaviour which take place in + . + + + + + + The corporate structure + + The CentOS Project corporate structure is based on + a monolithic corporate visual identity + structure. In this configuration, one unique + name and one unique visual style is used in all corporate + manifestations of The CentOS Project. + + In a monolithic corporate visual identity structure, + internal and external stakeholders feel a strong sensation + of uniformity, orientation, and identification with the + organization. No matter if you are visiting web sites, + using the distribution, or acting on social events, the + one unique name and one unique visual style connects them + all to say: Hey! we are all part of The CentOS + Project. + + Other corporate structures for The CentOS Project + have been considered as well. Such is the case of + producing one different visual style for each major + release of The CentOS Distribution. This structure isn't + inconvenient at all, but some visual contradictions could + be introduced if it isn't applied correctly and we need to + be aware of it. To apply it correctly, we need to know + what The CentOS Project is made of. + + The CentOS Project, as organization, is mainly made + of (but not limited to) three corporate manifestions: The + CentOS Distribution, The CentOS Web and The CentOS + Showroom. Inside The CentOS Distribution corporate + manifestations, The CentOS Project maintains near to four + different major releases of The CentOS Distribution (e.g., + the operating system), parallely in time. However, inside + The CentOS Web visual manifestations, the content is + produced for no specific release information (e.g., there + is no a complete web site for each major release of The + CentOS Distribution individually, but one web site to + cover them all). Likewise, the content produced in The + CentOS Showroom is created for no release-specific at all, + but for The CentOS Project in general. + + In order to produce the correct corporate structure + for The CentOS Project, we need to concider all the + corporate manifestations The CentOS Project is made of, + not just one of them. If one different visual style is + used for each major release of The CentOS Distribution, + which one of those different visual styles would be used + to cover the remaining visual manifestations The CentOS + Project is made of (e.g., The CentOS Web and The CentOS + Showroom)? + + Probably you are thinking, that's right, but The + CentOS Brand connects them all already, why would we need + to join them up into the same visual style too, isn't it + more work to do, and harder to maintain? + + Harder to maintain, more work to do, probably. + Specially when you consider that The CentOS Project has + proven stability and consistency through time and, that, + certainly, didn't come through swinging magical wands or + something but hardly working out to automate tasks and + providing maintainance through time. Said that, we + consider that The CentOS Project corporate structure must + be consequent with such stability and consistency + tradition, beyond the work it might require initially. It + is true that The CentOS Brand does connect all the visual + manifestations it is present on, but that connection would + be stronger if one unique visual style backups it, too. + In fact, whatever thing you do to strength the visual + connection among The CentOS Project corporate + manifestations would be very good in favor of The CentOS + Project recognition. + + Obviously, having just one visual style in all + corporate manifestations for eternity would be a very + boring thing and would give the impression of a visually + dead project. So, there is no problem on creating a brand + new visual style for each new major release of The CentOS + Distribution, in order to refresh The CentOS Distribution + visual style; the problem itself is in not propagating the + brand new visual style created for the new release of The + CentOS Distribution to all other visual manifestations The + CentOS Project is made of, in a way The CentOS Project + could be recognized no matter what corporate manifestation + be in front of us. Such lack of uniformity is what + introduces the visual contradition we are precisely trying + to solve by mean of themes production in the CentOS + Artwork Repository. + + + + diff --git a/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models.docbook b/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models.docbook new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d1f7d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models.docbook @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ + + + <filename class="directory">trunk/Identity/Models</filename> + + diff --git a/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models/Themes.docbook b/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models/Themes.docbook new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e64cad0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models/Themes.docbook @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ + + + + <filename class="directory">trunk/Identity/Models/Themes</filename> + + This directory implements the concept of themes' + design models. + + Themes' design models provide the structural part of images + (e.g., dimensions, translation markers, position of each element + on the visible area, etc.) required by + centos-art.sh to perform theme rendition. The + provide the modeling characteristics for all the different visual + manifestations a theme is made of. Using themes' design models + reduce the time needed for propagating an artistic motif to + different visual manifestations. + + In this directory, themes' design models are organized by + name. There is one directory for each theme's design model. Each + design model directory must be named as specified in . Inside themes' design + models directories, there is one directory for each visual + manifestions a theme is made of. These directories are named + visual manifestation directories and contain + one or more SVG files to describe the visual structure of that + visual manifestion. + + Themes' design models are SVG files and + can be localized using the locale functionality of + centos-art.sh script. + + diff --git a/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models/Themes/Default.docbook b/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models/Themes/Default.docbook new file mode 100644 index 0000000..612d398 --- /dev/null +++ b/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models/Themes/Default.docbook @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ + + + + <filename class="directory">trunk/Identity/Models/Themes/Default</filename> + + This directory implements the concept of themes' + default design models. + + Themes' default design models provide the common structural + information (e.g., image dimensions, translation markers, + trademark position, etc.) the centos-art.sh + script uses to produce images when no other design model is + specified through the option at + rendition time. + + diff --git a/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Directories/trunk/Manuals.docbook b/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Directories/trunk/Manuals.docbook new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4247a1b --- /dev/null +++ b/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Directories/trunk/Manuals.docbook @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ + + + <filename class="directory">trunk/Manuals</filename> + + diff --git a/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Repository/Directories/trunk/Identity.docbook b/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Repository/Directories/trunk/Identity.docbook deleted file mode 100644 index ca4f962..0000000 --- a/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Repository/Directories/trunk/Identity.docbook +++ /dev/null @@ -1,261 +0,0 @@ - - - <filename class="directory">trunk/Identity</filename> - - The trunk/Identity - directory implements The CentOS Project corporate - identity based on the The CentOS Project - mission and release - schema. - - - - The corporate mission - - The CentOS Project exists to provide The CentOS - Distribution. Additionally, The CentOS Project provides The - CentOS Web and The CentOS Showroom to support and promote the - existence of The CentOS Distribution, respectively. - - - - - The corporate identity - - The CentOS Project corporate identity is the ``persona'' - of the organization known as The CentOS Project. The CentOS - Project corporate identity plays a significant role in the way - The CentOS Project, as organization, presents itself to both - internal and external stakeholders. In general terms, The - CentOS Project corporate identity expresses the values and - ambitions of The CentOS Project organization, its business, - and its characteristics. - - The CentOS Project corporate identity provides - visibility, recognizability, reputation, structure and - identification to The CentOS Project organization by means of - corporate design, corporate - communication, and corporate - behaviour. - - - - - - The corporate design - - The corporate design is focused on the effective - communication of corporate messages. Corporate messages are - all the information emitted from the corporation to a target - audience. In order for such communication to happen, it is - required to put the messages on a medium available for the - target audience to react upon. These media are know as - corporate manifestations, because the - corporation manifests its existence through them. The specific - way used by the corporation to set their messages on different - media is what the corporate design is about. - - The amount of manifestations a corporation uses to - communicate its existence may very from one corporation to - another. In the very specific case of The CentOS Project, the - following corporate manifestations come to mind: - - - - - The CentOS Distribution — The CentOS - Distribution corporate manifestaion is made from SRPM - packages. There are packages that make a remarkable - use of images (e.g., Anaconda, Grub, Syslinux, Gdm, - Kdm, Gsplash, Ksplash, Rhgb, Firstboot, etc.), - packages that make a moderated use of images and - packages that don't use images at all. Also, there - are some packages that make use of text-based - information that need to be changed, too (e.g., - release notes, eula, the welcome page of the web - browser, etc.), in order for The CentOS Project to - comply with upstream's redistribution guidelines. The - CentOS Distribution corporate manifestation focuses - its attention on SRPM packages that do use images in a - remarkable way, specifically those packages that - involve upstream branding, and those files with - text-based information that need to be changed. This - way, through image and text-based files, is - implemented the corporate design of The CentOS - Distribution corporate manifestations (i.e., all the - releases of the operating system). - - - - - The CentOS Web — This corporate - manifestation exists to support The CentOS - Distribution corporate manifestation. The CentOS Web - corporate manifestation covers web applications used - by The CentOS Project to manifest its existence on the - Internet. These web applications are free software - and come from different providers which distribute - their work with predefined visual styles. Frequently, - these predefined visual styles have no visual relation - among themselves and introduce some visual - contraditions when they all are put together. These - visual contraditions need to be removed in order to - comply with The CentOS Project corporate structure - guidelines. - - - - - The CentOS Showroom — This corporate - manifestation exists to promote The CentOS - Distribution. The CentOS Showroom corporate - manifestation covers industrial production of objects - branded by The CentOS Project (e.g., clothes, - stationery and installation media). These branded - objects are for distribution on social events and/or - shops. They provide a way of promotion and a route - for commercialization that may help to aliviate The - CentOS Project expenses (e.g., hosting, servers, - full-time-developers, etc.), in a similar way as - donations may do. - - - - - The corporate manifestations above seem to cover all the - media required by The CentOS Project, as organization, to show - its existence. However, other corporate manifestations could - be added in the future, if needed, to cover different areas - like building, offices, transportation and whaterver medium - The CentOS Project thouches to show its existence. - - - - - - The corporate communication - - The CentOS Project corporate communication is based on - community communication and takes place - through the following avenues: - - - The CentOS Chat (#centos, #centos-social}, -#centos-devel on irc.freenode.net) - The CentOS Mailing Lists (). - The CentOS Forums (). - The CentOS Wiki (). - Social events, interviews, conferences, etc. - - - - - - - - - The corporate behaviour - - The CentOS Project corporate behaviour is based on - community behaviour which take place in - . - - - - - - The corporate structure - - The CentOS Project corporate structure is based on - a monolithic corporate visual identity - structure. In this configuration, one unique - name and one unique visual style is used in all corporate - manifestations of The CentOS Project. - - In a monolithic corporate visual identity structure, - internal and external stakeholders feel a strong sensation - of uniformity, orientation, and identification with the - organization. No matter if you are visiting web sites, - using the distribution, or acting on social events, the - one unique name and one unique visual style connects them - all to say: Hey! we are all part of The CentOS - Project. - - Other corporate structures for The CentOS Project - have been considered as well. Such is the case of - producing one different visual style for each major - release of The CentOS Distribution. This structure isn't - inconvenient at all, but some visual contradictions could - be introduced if it isn't applied correctly and we need to - be aware of it. To apply it correctly, we need to know - what The CentOS Project is made of. - - The CentOS Project, as organization, is mainly made - of (but not limited to) three corporate manifestions: The - CentOS Distribution, The CentOS Web and The CentOS - Showroom. Inside The CentOS Distribution corporate - manifestations, The CentOS Project maintains near to four - different major releases of The CentOS Distribution (e.g., - the operating system), parallely in time. However, inside - The CentOS Web visual manifestations, the content is - produced for no specific release information (e.g., there - is no a complete web site for each major release of The - CentOS Distribution individually, but one web site to - cover them all). Likewise, the content produced in The - CentOS Showroom is created for no release-specific at all, - but for The CentOS Project in general. - - In order to produce the correct corporate structure - for The CentOS Project, we need to concider all the - corporate manifestations The CentOS Project is made of, - not just one of them. If one different visual style is - used for each major release of The CentOS Distribution, - which one of those different visual styles would be used - to cover the remaining visual manifestations The CentOS - Project is made of (e.g., The CentOS Web and The CentOS - Showroom)? - - Probably you are thinking, that's right, but The - CentOS Brand connects them all already, why would we need - to join them up into the same visual style too, isn't it - more work to do, and harder to maintain? - - Harder to maintain, more work to do, probably. - Specially when you consider that The CentOS Project has - proven stability and consistency through time and, that, - certainly, didn't come through swinging magical wands or - something but hardly working out to automate tasks and - providing maintainance through time. Said that, we - consider that The CentOS Project corporate structure must - be consequent with such stability and consistency - tradition, beyond the work it might require initially. It - is true that The CentOS Brand does connect all the visual - manifestations it is present on, but that connection would - be stronger if one unique visual style backups it, too. - In fact, whatever thing you do to strength the visual - connection among The CentOS Project corporate - manifestations would be very good in favor of The CentOS - Project recognition. - - Obviously, having just one visual style in all - corporate manifestations for eternity would be a very - boring thing and would give the impression of a visually - dead project. So, there is no problem on creating a brand - new visual style for each new major release of The CentOS - Distribution, in order to refresh The CentOS Distribution - visual style; the problem itself is in not propagating the - brand new visual style created for the new release of The - CentOS Distribution to all other visual manifestations The - CentOS Project is made of, in a way The CentOS Project - could be recognized no matter what corporate manifestation - be in front of us. Such lack of uniformity is what - introduces the visual contradition we are precisely trying - to solve by mean of themes production in the CentOS - Artwork Repository. - - - - diff --git a/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Repository/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models.docbook b/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Repository/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models.docbook deleted file mode 100644 index 2d1f7d0..0000000 --- a/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Repository/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models.docbook +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ - - - <filename class="directory">trunk/Identity/Models</filename> - - diff --git a/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Repository/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models/Themes.docbook b/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Repository/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models/Themes.docbook deleted file mode 100644 index e64cad0..0000000 --- a/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Repository/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models/Themes.docbook +++ /dev/null @@ -1,32 +0,0 @@ - - - - <filename class="directory">trunk/Identity/Models/Themes</filename> - - This directory implements the concept of themes' - design models. - - Themes' design models provide the structural part of images - (e.g., dimensions, translation markers, position of each element - on the visible area, etc.) required by - centos-art.sh to perform theme rendition. The - provide the modeling characteristics for all the different visual - manifestations a theme is made of. Using themes' design models - reduce the time needed for propagating an artistic motif to - different visual manifestations. - - In this directory, themes' design models are organized by - name. There is one directory for each theme's design model. Each - design model directory must be named as specified in . Inside themes' design - models directories, there is one directory for each visual - manifestions a theme is made of. These directories are named - visual manifestation directories and contain - one or more SVG files to describe the visual structure of that - visual manifestion. - - Themes' design models are SVG files and - can be localized using the locale functionality of - centos-art.sh script. - - diff --git a/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Repository/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models/Themes/Default.docbook b/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Repository/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models/Themes/Default.docbook deleted file mode 100644 index 612d398..0000000 --- a/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Repository/Directories/trunk/Identity/Models/Themes/Default.docbook +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ - - - - <filename class="directory">trunk/Identity/Models/Themes/Default</filename> - - This directory implements the concept of themes' - default design models. - - Themes' default design models provide the common structural - information (e.g., image dimensions, translation markers, - trademark position, etc.) the centos-art.sh - script uses to produce images when no other design model is - specified through the option at - rendition time. - - diff --git a/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Repository/Directories/trunk/Manuals.docbook b/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Repository/Directories/trunk/Manuals.docbook deleted file mode 100644 index 4247a1b..0000000 --- a/Manuals/Docbook/repository-parts/Repository/Directories/trunk/Manuals.docbook +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ - - - <filename class="directory">trunk/Manuals</filename> - -