Hi, As folks likely know OSCON is coming up the middle of next month.
Both Simon and Jean will be attending. The suggestion has been made to supply a disc image (or possibly on a 2 GB USB drive) for distribution at the conference. Ok - the first thing that came to mind was TIME - not a lot. First thought was to look to the libreoffice-na disk and see if that might fit the bill. (Tim has been doing just a great job with that!) Looking at the possible use of a 2GB USB of course poses a bit of a problem - I went ahead and pulled all of the files off the libreoffice-na.us server for the Libo 3.5.4 distribution ONLY and generated a svelt 5 GB image...not so good for our purpose here. I would like to propose we create a one-off use disk/USB image for the OSCON conference. To get to that I did the following so far: 1) Given that LibreOffice IMO really needs to focus on brand building, particularly in the MS Windows space I would first drop all the platforms other then Windows. 2) The current libreoffice-na disk includes additional OSS applications, again I propose to drop everything not for Windows. 3) Documentation - again I would pare what is on the disk down. If there is a 3.5 guide ready, then drop the older 3.3/3.x docs. DO NOT include the odt files, only the pdf files. Did all that and updated the associated HTML files last night - this gives me an ISO file of 2.4 GB. This morning - 4) The disk image included more then one portable LibreOffice images included - I dropped all but the one of them (keeping the multi-language file) 5) Ran through the other extra items, and again dropped all the files other then the latest windows release. - and the current iso image stands at 1.9 GB.(though I think this will still be to big for the 2GB USB when unpacked...so still needs a little more weight loss.) I've also updated the DVD case artwork, the insert and the brochure for version 3.5.4. The iso is currently uploading to the lo-portal.us server so folks can take a look (not the final work) - it should be done in about 3 hours and I will follow up with a URL as soon as it is. What I would propose is to go ahead and update this cover and the disk label to show that it was distributed at OSCON 2012. I snagged some artwork for doing this, not sure what steps (or rather who to ask) for permission to do so from a trademark perspective - I'm hoping maybe Simon could weigh in on that - if it seems like a good thing to do, and I really think it is, the I could work on the artwork today. So - this is a quick job of course and it will go better with help from folks for sure - any thoughts or comments now would be appreciated - otherwise, let's get this done, shall we. Thanks much, //drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
