Thanks for this, Drew. On 29 Jun 2012, at 16:09, drew jensen wrote:
> 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. OSCON has a lot of Mac users, so if it's at all possible to shoehorn on the Mac DMG that would be good. > > 2) The current libreoffice-na disk includes additional OSS applications, > again I propose to drop everything not for Windows. What sort of thing are they? Even Windows add-ons probably aren't essential, and if it makes room for the Mac version all the better. > > 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. Happy to help. Since we're representing TDF, I don't think there will be any trademark problems even if you use the marks with the TDF underline, but I'll wait for the gurus to chip in on that too. > > 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. Great stuff. I gather Friends of OpenDocument are willing to contribute to the costs of production and delivery, and a friend of TDF in Portland has agreed to take delivery of shipments. He can also help find a local production facility if you've not already got a preference. S. -- 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
