Czajkowski

I’ve noticed recently how badly disorganised some organisations seem to be when it comes to making their artwork easy accessible to people who wish to promote their work.  Organisations, projects and groups all want their newest release covered, or what they’ve just announced is going to happen, unfortunately it’s hard to write about something when you’re missing their logo.

What I’ve had to do to find the artwork necessary for logos to be used to search all over Google for their logos, look at their Twitter icon or their G+ icon to see if the sizes are suitable for use.  They really don’t make it easy at all, it’s rather frustrating to say the least and I’m sure they’d be the very ones who would give out if they logo used was not up to their standards.

I’ve also come across organisations who’ve updated their branding for their site and products yet when you go to their press area or branding site it still refers to the old logo. Bit of  a contradiction there! I do wish groups would think a bit about their branding and logo use possibly add a link on their website for press releases make it a bit easier for people to help promote their work, recently I had to spend time searching for the CrunchBang logo it was impossible to use the one off the website searching for a #! on Google isn’t really helpful so again having to use the Twitter icon just doesn’t really seem like a professional way to go forward.

If the likes of Ubuntu, Redhat and Google can make it easy then so should the smaller groups it’s in their interest if they want organisations and people to write about their excellent projects they are working on.

Just a reminder that the IRC Council nominations are soon closing.  If you want to nominate yourself or someone else you only have a few more days to do so.

If you are interested in the Ubuntu IRC community, feel you have a lot give to it and can help to improve it, please review the Leadership Code of Conduct [1] and update your personal wiki page with:

- your ideas how to resolve what you feel are the most pressing issues highlighted in the recent IRC team survey [2]
- endorsements and comments from your peers

The closing date for the nominations is 10th December – please have your nomination into the Ubuntu IRC Council at irc-council@lists.ubuntu.com. The poll should be held in the week after that – as detailed in the wiki restaffing page[3].
These times may be subject to extension if necessary – as per the afore-mentioned wiki.
[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/leadership-conduct

[2] http://jussi01.com/upload/uploads/20111125-083521-UbuntuIRCSurveypreliminaryoverview.pdf

[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil/Restaffing

The Ubuntu IRC community is one of the pillars of the wider Ubuntu community. Everybody benefits from the IRC team’s hard work every day, so it’s important that this community is productive, happy and continues to thrive.

We look forward to seeing your nominations!