Hello Christoph, 2011/8/1 drew <d...@baseanswers.com>
> On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 23:05 +0200, Christoph Noack wrote: > > Hi Charles, all! > > > > I wasn't able to follow the discussion very closely (being partly > > offline) due to some vacation (numerous family visits), so please (all) > > bear with me with regard to the template topic. > > > <snip> > > Howdy, great I was hoping you would pop on with a template. > > > I had a look at the conference templates suggested so far - and although > > some parts are simply beautiful, I got stuck a bit. Here are some things > > I consider to be issues: > > * the templates are very large (5 ... 7 MB) --> many people who > > cannot attend the conference will need to download the > > presentations afterwards (non-broadband Internet) > > * although highly detailed, the templates add a bit too much to > > the motif --> last time I spoke with Nik he mentioned "lots of > > white" > > * High contrast should be a priority, due to the (typically) less > > ideal data projectors ... > > * I've never seen any presenter really care about the presentation > > template ;-) To be serious again, I think its helpful to make > > the (non-marketing people) template as simple as possible > > (because other people will add what they like, and - in the end > > - that's usually not what we like as well). > > Cool - when I went to start I looked at the template you posted on the > wiki, way back when - rather expected you might pick that one back up > and run with it though, so went for the more Baroque No-1_Green. It's > huge and maybe I can trim it, which I'll put a few more days into, but > your right on the points and the more trimmed down model makes sense for > most uses. Anyway sometimes it's fun to be meat eater..*chuckle*, and > I'll make use of it somehow I suspect. > > > > > So, I created (with the small laptop screen and an even smaller > > touchpad ... grmbl) another proposal which has been added to the > > proposal page: > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ConferenceTemplates > > > > Or directly: > > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Proposal_LibOConf2011_Template.odp > > > > Still a draft, but should work already: > > * based on some motif examples by Nik > > * added overall asymmetry due to the conference logo design and > > the non-tagline logo layout (some may remember the nice LibO > > postcard idea created by Nik) > > * the template contains four master page definitions (first slide, > > section header, default slide, final slide) incl. footer > > elements, styles definitions and details like font substitution > > > > Feedback (especially technical stuff) highly appreciated :-) > > I like it - are you going to bring in some of the secondary colors, as > you did in the earlier template then? > You make a good point on the template size, but as long as it's beautiful and does not look like it's been made in 1997, I'm fine. > > > > > [...] > > > One word of advice: > > > - do use the existing conference logo and the full logo of LibreOffice > > tsk tsk... > > > > > Mmh, it seems that I've missed that requirement - I simply haven't read > > your mail in detail ;-) However, my gut feeling told me that the > > LibreOffice non-tagline logo is more appropriate here (presentations > > will contain personal statements) ... > > I don't think I agree - but separate email makes more sense, it's an > easy swap in or out, yes! > Sorry I did express myself very unclearly: I was mentioning the conference logo in full (the conference logo with the TDF/LibO logo at its left). Best, Charles. > > > but switching back to the TDF > > tagline logo is easy. > > > > > - follow our colours :-) > > > > ... and our overall branding language (at least what exists *g*). > > > > Mmh, maybe it would be nice to add some pre-defined boxes / graphical > > elements to let the authors work with ... idea for one of the next > > iterations. > > //drew > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
