On 29/06/2013, at 1:07, "Charles-H. Schulz" 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Le Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:04:00 -0400,
> Marc Paré <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
>> Le 2013-06-27 16:42, Jean Weber a écrit :
>>> I would really like to have a brochure aimed specifically at
>>> developers for use at OSCON (Open Source Conference) in July, but
>>> I'm not a developer so I don't know what is most relevant and
>>> important to include.
>>> 
>>> I could start with info from http://www.libreoffice.org/developers/
>>> and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development and then ask for
>>> comments and improvements from developers. Not sure there is time
>>> for this, but it's certainly a brochure that is needed for other
>>> conferences, so someone's got to start on it sometime.
>>> 
>>> I'll see what I can do over the next few days. No promises; a lot is
>>> going on in Documentation right now.
>>> 
>>> --Jean
>> 
>> What we really need on this one is for a developer on the marketing
>> to take the lead on this and to put up a bulleted list of items that
>> should be included in such a brochure and we can take care of the
>> "marketing" filler text.
>> 
>> Maybe this could be an item put on the ESC committee list of items of 
>> discussion for a more complete discussion of the contents of that
>> brochure.
>> 
>> I think it would be cutting it really short for OSCON, but yes, this 
>> should really be on our next "hit list" of brochures.
>> 
>> After the dev brochure, I was hoping to work on an "accessibility" 
>> brochure as we are still in need of gaining more devs interest in
>> that particular branch of our project. This is particularly important
>> for large scale installations (whether in a business environment or
>> academic environment). I think this brochure will be a little
>> challenging to work on.
> 
> <Contrarian mode>
> But this begs the question: do developers really read these brochures? 
> I'm afraid we're getting swamped in designing brochures as if everybody
> actually ready them...
> 
> </Contrarian mode>
> 
> Thanks,


I've been thinking along much the same lines as Charles. While it's useful and 
often important to have fact sheets on specific topics or aimed at specific 
audiences, a trifold brochure may not be the most appropriate format in all 
cases. 

For OSCON, I think I will slightly amend the page from the website and/or or 
wiki and print a 1 page handout in portrait orientation instead if a trifold 
brochure. Then when debs ask me questions (as they did at SCALE) I have 
something to hand them with more technical info. Yes, I'll run it by the list 
first. 

--Jean


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