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In my view, those who show dedication in contributing to the project, and produce quality contributions as determined by the existing team, are invited into the team to participate in the marketing and/or technical processes. We’ve been careful to select new team members as we’ve progressed over the past year, but have rarely if ever rejected anyone that displayed the talent and initiative to become a team member. So I really don’t see that the marketing efforts have been kept closed-door any more than the SVN repository is only available for approved team members that possess the skills and/or desire to make commits to the core code. In fact, we let our early community post ideas on branding and took everything into account (we had a lot less posts and other things to deal with at that point) when making the decisions we have so far, and I don’t plan to stop listening to the voice of the community in this regards.
Just wondering because I have no experience with this sort of open source project; why is the branding and design a closed door process and the code/backend an open process. It seems as MODx attracts more design oriented users you will have a very talented pool to draw from for ongoing brand development.
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psd files won’t do me much good, I use Gimp. Maybe you could save them as .tiff files instead?
Quote from: sottwell at Feb 05, 2006, 01:12 PM
psd files won’t do me much good, I use Gimp. Maybe you could save them as .tiff files instead?
Susan, tiff files don’t support layers do they? You would have to use some sort of editor that supported a format with layering, otherwise, the idea of customized graphic templates is not very useful, since you would not have the individual layers of the images to modify without affecting the rest. I use Paint Shop Pro, cause I don’t like to spend so much money on software, but it does support PSD files and even has it’s own native layered format.
The PSD files is the best option in my opinion, as most professional designers do work with this format, and it provides a very flexible and standard way of distributing graphics that are easy to change for your sites’ needs.
In my view, those who show dedication in contributing to the project, and produce quality contributions as determined by the existing team, are invited into the team to participate in the marketing and/or technical processes. We’ve been careful to select new team members as we’ve progressed over the past year, but have rarely if ever rejected anyone that displayed the talent and initiative to become a team member. So I really don’t see that the marketing efforts have been kept closed-door any more than the SVN repository is only available for approved team members that possess the skills and/or desire to make commits to the core code. In fact, we let our early community post ideas on branding and took everything into account (we had a lot less posts and other things to deal with at that point) when making the decisions we have so far, and I don’t plan to stop listening to the voice of the community in this regards.
I for one welcome the growing talent pool, and as an active contributor, I can’t imagine you will not at some point be invited to the team; or you might request membership before then, if you feel compelled to contribute at that level before we take notice (though I think we already are
And great idea on the MODx for designers site. I would like to see something similar for developers eventually, as well.
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Whitefen, the design stuff is really not up for debate much more as the bulk of the work was completed months ago. Now we’re going to start plugging in content. But as stated elsewhere, Tattoo is not ready for prime time and MODx will btw the defacto project to base your sites on.
Also, I really like your idea on the designers resource site. That’s exactly the type of documentation we’ve wanted on our site here and we’ve planned for a long time to put up such content... Feel like taking the reigns and pushing forward with it?
tatoo is php5?
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), read Ryan’s post. And, for the sake of clarity : don’t expect Tattoo anytime soon. 
and ’’for designers’’ :D) sure will love this name! 
on tattoocms.it.
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