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Create countdown banners for Intrepid:

Quick notes: [Gerry] Dates for completion - we make the banners available from beta so 30 days prior to release on the October 1st.

Guidance - while there is no issue with making a number of these available, it is less desirable to use the code name for Ubuntu 8.10. Ubuntu is for everyone, for noobs especially and Intrepid Ibex is 'insider-speak' great for our internal reference, a great tradition but exclusionary to new arrivals.

Other than that - go for it - the more creative the better.

Historical

8.04 countdown for syndication -

note that it is too big for most sites - should have been a standard banner size like 180x150 (standard sizes can be found here)

8.04 countdown for ubuntu.com -

designed to mate against the masthead banner on the homepage

7.10 countdown for syndication -

7.10 countdown for ubuntu.com -

Javascript to display them is quite simple and can be seen here - http://www.ubuntu.com/files/countdown/display.js (it gets modified at release time in order to change the image from "almost ready" to "its here" when the release team gives the ok.

Concepts

Put your ideas here

MadsRH

Here are my suggestions:

//MadsRH (6/7/08)

I just learned that the banners above isn't the right size. So I've made some new ones in 180x150 px

//MadsRH (31/9/08)

VBabiy

Here is my suggestion:

Updated (7/8/08)

thorwil

The dots represent the days, so the red moves.

While 4 hands would be a bit much, I guess 3 would be OK if counting from 10 isn't enough.

nealmcb

thorwil - I love the counting by hands approach - very human!

It might be too esoteric or difficult to lay out, but would also be cool in other ways, to use Sign Language, which takes fewer hands: http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/Counting-on-Numbers-in-Sign-Language.id-1972.html