Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media
On 10/4/07 22:40, Christian Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We'd like to print more BSD articles but nobody is submitting any. (Standard reply at German LinuxTag when you ask the press people about this.) Surely there must be a reason why people aren't writing/submitting BSD articles though? That would be the amount of work involved in actually writing something. Speaking for myself, the reason I don't write anything or present at conferences is because I simply cannot believe that anyone would be interested in anything I have to say; the way I do things is obviously the same way that everyone else does things, right? ;-) An ideas list goes some way to helping. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CDROM-Artwork
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:50:48AM +0200, Peer Schaefer wrote: Hi, I have designed some CDROM-related artwork for FreeBSD (CDROM-labels, sleeves and DVD-cases). The first drafts were posted to the FreeBSD-advocacy-mailing-list on Sept 1st, and since then I have received some kind feedback that lead to some changes (see mailing-list archive). In particular I would like to thank (in totally random order) Matt Olander, Simon Nielsen, Don Witt, Dru Lavigne, Ceri Davies, G?bor K?vesd?n, Remko Lodder, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav and Eric Anderson for their kind feedback. All design-flaws and errors remain my own. Peter, thanks again for creating these. I would be pleased if these material could be placed at the website (e.g. http://www.freebsd.org/art.html). I would suggest to place a link to the artwork page in the downloads section, so that everyone who downloads an ISO-image can easily obtain the label and sleeve. If you find this artwork useful, I will also create 6.2 versions for the upcoming release. I want to do this. www@, the question for me is if these should go in CVS or be hosted on the FTP servers (and how we arrange that). Perhaps the thumbnails should be in the www CVS and the rest of it on the FTP servers. LEGAL: The logo and the logo-font are by Anton Gural. The colour palette is taken from Anton Gurals design-studies (but slightly modified). The text is taken from the FreeBSD-website. The remaining artwork is by me. I hereby donate my part of the artwork to the FreeBSD project, so you may use and distribute it under any license you may choose, e.g. under the BSD-license (you may even place it in the Public Domain). Unless the FreeBSD project chooses some other license, the FreeBSD license (http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html) applies. It would be nice if you give me some credit, but that's not legaly required. Deb, could you please look at what we'd need to do to regarding any legal jiggerypokery, assuming that's in your remit? Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere pgpbSE7b4ZmHQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CDROM-Artwork (4)
I think they're great. I have some work to do on the art page anyway, so if there are no objections from anyone else then I'd love to incorporate these. I don't believe that I have a tool to edit SVGs; is there any chance that you could update these to say 6.2 rather than 6.1? That way we can use them for the new release which is due in a few weeks. Cheers, Ceri On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:37:54PM +0200, Peer Schaefer wrote: Hi, one week ago (on Sunday 1st October) I posted some new artworks for FreeBSD (see e-mail below). Since then I have received no feedback, neither positive nor negative. I would be happy to hear any feedback, bad or good. Please let me know if I posted to the wrong mailing-list or if my contribution is of no interest to the project. Thank you and best regards, Peer Schaefer Original-Message About:CDROM-Artwork (3) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:47:10 +0200 From Peer Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tofreebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello once more, some time ago (2006-09-01 and -02) I posted some CDROM-labels and CDROM-sleeves (envelopes) for FreeBSD. I received some kind comments and modified my drafts. Modifications include: * Now compliant with the logo-guidelines: the FreeBSD text/logo is now single-color white (not a white Free with a red BSD as in the first draft). * To bring back a daemonic-red ;-) the version number is now RED. * The background-colors are a little bit brighter now (the old colors looked great on a monitor but were overly dark on printouts). Here are some thumbnails (75 dpi): http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_generic.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_alpha_1of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_alpha_2of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_amd64_1of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_amd64_2of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_i386_1of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_i386_2of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_ia64_1of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_ia64_2of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_ppc_1of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_ppc_2of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_sparc64_1of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_sparc64_2of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Sleeve_FreeBSD_generic.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Sleeve_FreeBSD_alpha.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Sleeve_FreeBSD_amd64.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Sleeve_FreeBSD_i386.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Sleeve_FreeBSD_ia64.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Sleeve_FreeBSD_ppc.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/thumbnails/CDROM-Sleeve_FreeBSD_sparc64.png Here are the high-resolution images (300 dpi): http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_generic.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_alpha_1of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_alpha_2of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_amd64_1of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_amd64_2of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_i386_1of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_i386_2of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_ia64_1of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_ia64_2of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_ppc_1of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_ppc_2of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_sparc64_1of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Label_FreeBSD_sparc64_2of2.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Sleeve_FreeBSD_generic.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Sleeve_FreeBSD_alpha.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Sleeve_FreeBSD_amd64.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Sleeve_FreeBSD_i386.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Sleeve_FreeBSD_ia64.png http://www.wolldingwacht.de/foss/freebsd/full/CDROM-Sleeve_FreeBSD_ppc.png
Re: FreeBSD's SVG logos are broken(was Re: FreeBSD Logo)
On 23/8/06 16:06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also It doesn't matter what the problems are, we still need to separate the logos and provide them in alternate forms, EPS and a hi-res Tiff image. You can't send 10 images in one file to press... It's not how the print industry works Like I said in my previous post, I'll do the work but only if I get a nod from a commiter with access to the website. That's me, and please do. Thank you. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kern/73646: I/O performance: with/without MEMIO option
Synopsis: I/O performance: with/without MEMIO option Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-advocacy-freebsd-bugs Responsible-Changed-By: ceri Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Nov 8 11:41:20 GMT 2004 Responsible-Changed-Why: Not an advocacy PR. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=73646 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:40:00PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote this message on Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 22:46 -0600: [ Choosing a random(ish) post to reply to - I am on holiday right now and I will not pretend to have read the whole thread ] 2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site with a modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (ever here of Cascading Style Sheets?) you mean a sans-serif font? yes, most computer display fonts should be sans-serif since the screen resolution does not always allow you to do that... (and Helvetica isn't that modern, about 50 years old now it appears)... As for CSS, it appears that we do use CSS on the site: link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=./index.css / I just committed that before I left for holidays; it is only a first step towards CSS'ing the site, and once the conversion to CSS is complete then it should be simple to have an a best stylesheet competition or similar (something along those lines was discussed on doc@ a couple of weeks ago). Matt Seaman posted a link to a crappy here is what CSS can do mockup that I posted to doc@ just before the commit mentioned above - it's at http://shrike.submonkey.net/~ceri/data2/index.html (be sure to let all the images load - this is on a slow link - and be aware that it doesn't work properly in IE for reasons that DES mentioned elsewhere). Once the conversion to CSS is complete then I have ideas for a way to offer users a personalised stylesheet (subject to implementation [I do not have a computer with me] and benchmarking [it is likely to be a little slow, though this remains to be seen]), and then you will all whine like bitchen about being asked to accept a cookie. Simon@ also has a parallel project running to redesign the site on a more fundamental which is showing promise; my main focus at present is to migrate all style related bits into stylesheets, at which point it will be easy to mess around with colour/font/layout. At present, it is not. So yes, to whoever asked the question, we have heard of CSS and we have not only been using it (minimally) for over three years, but there is real activity in improving what we do have already. And part of CSS is letting people choose what font they want to display the site in... It appears at least Mozilla chooses Times by default... So I'd more complain to the browers that display with the default font.. Stimmt. Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-- Einstein (attrib.) pgppCJtYYxISF.pgp Description: PGP signature
