Claus Schwarm wrote: > Hi, Andres! > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:51:13 +0200 > Andreas Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Hi all! >> Here is the ad we're going to print in Linux Magazine. >> http://andreasn.se/diverse/temp/guadec2007-lm-poster.pdf >> Feedback is welcome! [...] >> > > This is a rather flat design when compared to what you do usually. Is > there going to be some more changes? Very cool nevertheless. > Hi Claus! Thanks for the feedback. Your text great. (it's on http://live.gnome.org/ClausSchwarm in case someone missed that)
We're going with the same style as the Guadec leaflets we did for Fosdem [1]. Using a flatter style than our interfaces and web graphics because we're going to print this, and being on safe side, that means no gradients and shadows. I also wanted to portray the energy and fun coming from Guadec. There is also a web-banner [2] in the works that we hopefully can put up soon. > Some points maybe worth mentioning: > > First, the headline is a good start. However, it generates no real > value: Nobody is is going to travel large distances *just* to find out > about GNOME's future. An brief artiticle in a magazine does the job, > too, and bears no travel expenses. Additionally, if nobody's going > to listen to your opinion, would you *really* bother? > > A small sidenote... What's the 1000 euros thing? > Second, the text misses an opportunity to make some advertising for > GNOME. Additionally, it excludes potential visitors, namely > those who wouldn't consider themselves "GNOME community members" yet. > Also, it adds nothing new. Readers are usually not *that* clueless. > They don't need an explanation that the answer to a rhetorical > question is the advertised conference. In fact, they are not that > interested at all. > > Third, as a page in the Linux magazine, the text will be read by a > rather broad audience I guess. Thus, only a minority of their readers > will recognize the names of the keynote speakers. And names > present no benefit. Thus -- unless there's space to include the topics > of the keynotes --, I suggest to drop the names completely. > Interesting point. Need to think this over though. > Forth, I'd center the date and place to give it more prominence. > > Fifth, you didn't forget the action item. Good. Unfortunately, due to > the color people will probably place it close to the upper paragraph and > miss them. Insert black text in between or use a different color. > > Sixth, what about a conference fee? If it's free to attend, we should > say so. I remember some problems about this in the past. If not, we > should say so, too. > Good point. What is the fee this year? 1. http://andreasn.se/diverse/temp/guadec2007-leaflet-a5.pdf 2. http://andreasn.se/diverse/temp/guadec-splash.png - Andreas _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
