GNOME marketing material git repository
Hi, Is there a git repository where I can store revisions of my brochures and posters? I'm using a git repository locally and thought it be might be a good idea to start keep track of things on git.gnome.org. I realize that a 'git diff' doesn't produce meaningful results for svg files but it's still nice to keep track of revisions. Obviously I'm thinking of this from a software development point of view. If there's a better tool for keeping track of revisions of art work, please let me know. Thanks, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.
Hi Dave, Sorry I missed your question. I don't always monitor my mailing lists regularly these days. On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Juanjo Marin juanjomari...@yahoo.es wrote: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/developing-world-list developing-world-l...@gnome.org But it's a not very active I'm afraid Juanjo is right about it not being very active but it would be great if you would join us anyway. It's a new a community with a bit of a lack of focus right now but these things take time to develop. Cheers, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.
Hi, Sorry, I gave you some incorrect links to the new files. Here are the correct ones: PDFs: http://bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-brochure-v5.pdf http://bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-brochure-with-fold-marks-v5.pdf Inkscape 0.48 SVGs: http://bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-brochure-with-fold-marks-p1.svg http://bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-brochure-with-fold-marks-p2.svg Cheers, Ben On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Ben Konrath b...@bagu.org wrote: Hi, On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Frederic Muller fr...@gnome.org wrote: Sorry for the late feedback. I do have a few comments: 1. The green background is quite blurry giving a potential sub-par impression on the display quality of the GNOME desktop. Maybe a plain color or gradient background would fix this. I agree. I've replaced the screenshot in the new version. 2. Remaining typo in mobile phones section, 2nd sentence: you get get the... Thanks, it's fixed. 3. Accessibility: I would try to rephrase the paragraph without the word 'disabilities' and emphasizing on 'unconditional access' or 'access for everyone'. I am not a native speaker, but if needed, can give it a try. I agree. I've re-worded it to this: The GNOME desktop includes applications that allow everybody to use a computer regardless of physical or mental ability. From a screen reader for people with visual impairment to specialized applications for people who can't use regular mice and keyboards. 4. No Serial Numbers: having lived in the developing world for the past 15 years, serial numbers are never an issue: they actually come on the CD with the pirated copy of whatever proprietary software you decide to use. Maybe replacing that section with all the productivity, graphic/artistic, fun/games, and web applications available for GNOME might make the space usage more compelling. Then again it might depend on the audience but from my experience I've never met any developing world government who was concerned about internal piracy (ymmv). Yeah, I have seen serial numbers on the CDs when doing ICT support work rural Uganda. But they don't always work and when that happens it a pain to track a new one down. I'm also trying to say some about the annoying 'please validate your OS' messages that keep popping up if you don't have a legitimate version of windows. As a side note, perhaps you'd be interested in joining us on the GNOME developing world list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/developing-world-list I'm sure you would have comments to add to our discussions. 5. Joining GNOME: I would probably add something more dynamic like mentioning that it's fun, you make lots of friends and Yeah, I agree fun and friends are good things. I tweaked the wording a bit in this section. you get to learn of a lot of (new) stuff which could get you a job. I made this brochure for some outreach marketing activities in sub-Saharan Africa. I don't think it's realistic to say that learning how to use or program GNOME might lead to employment. At least not in this region and not at this time. 6. joining GNOME user groups: unfortunately there are a lot more LUGs than GNOME user group and only recommending to visit GUG limits the possibilities for our target audience. I'd mention any Free Software group such a *nix UG, Free Software groups and others (including GUGs) as they will encounter the GNOME experience in any of those. This is good suggestion but right now I want this brochure to be about GNOME. 7. You might mention somewhere in the bottom made with GNOME? I made the brochure with Inkscape but I don't think it's part of GNOME. The first page says that I'm using GNOME icons and graphics from openclipart.org. 8. It'd be nice to have a native speaker reduce word repetitions and help produce a better phrased document. (9.) As a side note I don't think Linux is the best platform for multimedia playback or encoding (not something I'd put forward anyway) but I suppose we can allow ourselves to embellish the reality... I don't agree with this point. Every platform has pluses and minuses but I think GNOME has pretty good multimedia support. Ok, now for the updated files: PDFs: http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-brochure-with-fold-marks-v5.pdf http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-brochure-v5.pdf Inkscape 0.48 SVGs: http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-flyer-p1-with-fold-marks.svg http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-flyer-p2-with-fold-marks.svg Thanks for your extensive review. Cheers, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.
Hi, On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Frederic Muller fr...@gnome.org wrote: Sorry for the late feedback. I do have a few comments: 1. The green background is quite blurry giving a potential sub-par impression on the display quality of the GNOME desktop. Maybe a plain color or gradient background would fix this. I agree. I've replaced the screenshot in the new version. 2. Remaining typo in mobile phones section, 2nd sentence: you get get the... Thanks, it's fixed. 3. Accessibility: I would try to rephrase the paragraph without the word 'disabilities' and emphasizing on 'unconditional access' or 'access for everyone'. I am not a native speaker, but if needed, can give it a try. I agree. I've re-worded it to this: The GNOME desktop includes applications that allow everybody to use a computer regardless of physical or mental ability. From a screen reader for people with visual impairment to specialized applications for people who can't use regular mice and keyboards. 4. No Serial Numbers: having lived in the developing world for the past 15 years, serial numbers are never an issue: they actually come on the CD with the pirated copy of whatever proprietary software you decide to use. Maybe replacing that section with all the productivity, graphic/artistic, fun/games, and web applications available for GNOME might make the space usage more compelling. Then again it might depend on the audience but from my experience I've never met any developing world government who was concerned about internal piracy (ymmv). Yeah, I have seen serial numbers on the CDs when doing ICT support work rural Uganda. But they don't always work and when that happens it a pain to track a new one down. I'm also trying to say some about the annoying 'please validate your OS' messages that keep popping up if you don't have a legitimate version of windows. As a side note, perhaps you'd be interested in joining us on the GNOME developing world list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/developing-world-list I'm sure you would have comments to add to our discussions. 5. Joining GNOME: I would probably add something more dynamic like mentioning that it's fun, you make lots of friends and Yeah, I agree fun and friends are good things. I tweaked the wording a bit in this section. you get to learn of a lot of (new) stuff which could get you a job. I made this brochure for some outreach marketing activities in sub-Saharan Africa. I don't think it's realistic to say that learning how to use or program GNOME might lead to employment. At least not in this region and not at this time. 6. joining GNOME user groups: unfortunately there are a lot more LUGs than GNOME user group and only recommending to visit GUG limits the possibilities for our target audience. I'd mention any Free Software group such a *nix UG, Free Software groups and others (including GUGs) as they will encounter the GNOME experience in any of those. This is good suggestion but right now I want this brochure to be about GNOME. 7. You might mention somewhere in the bottom made with GNOME? I made the brochure with Inkscape but I don't think it's part of GNOME. The first page says that I'm using GNOME icons and graphics from openclipart.org. 8. It'd be nice to have a native speaker reduce word repetitions and help produce a better phrased document. (9.) As a side note I don't think Linux is the best platform for multimedia playback or encoding (not something I'd put forward anyway) but I suppose we can allow ourselves to embellish the reality... I don't agree with this point. Every platform has pluses and minuses but I think GNOME has pretty good multimedia support. Ok, now for the updated files: PDFs: http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-brochure-with-fold-marks-v5.pdf http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-brochure-v5.pdf Inkscape 0.48 SVGs: http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-flyer-p1-with-fold-marks.svg http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-flyer-p2-with-fold-marks.svg Thanks for your extensive review. Cheers, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.
Hi Stormy, On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Ben, That looks awesome! Thanks for the good work. Please be sure to put it on the wiki: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/Resources I've been working with Joshua Joseph Garcìa who contacted me on the gnome developing world list. He came up with a really cool first page and I added links to the files to the wiki. Thanks for the feedback. Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.
Hi Andreas, On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.se wrote: That looks really great, excellent work! I would advice to export the icons as bitmaps and then add them to the document as such, that way you can be sure that they render correctly. Make sure to embed them rather than link them though. Another way is to try and use simpler icons. I found out that the rendering problems come from a bug in evince / poppler. The files render properly in acroread so I've decided to keep them as SVG. I would like the highest quality I can get for printing. The updated files are linked on the gnome marketing wiki but I'll list them here too. PDFs: http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-brochure-with-fold-marks-v4.pdf http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-brochure-v4.pdf Inkscape SVGs: http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-flyer-p1-with-fold-marks.svg http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-flyer-p2-with-fold-marks.svg The PDF with fold marks should be used if you're folding the brochure by hand. The PDF without the fold marks should be used if you're using a printer or folding machine to automatically fold the brochure. The SVG files have the fold marks included but the marks should be removed when generating PDFs for use with automatic folding machines. Cheers, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.
Hi Andre, On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: Am Freitag, den 29.10.2010, 15:33 +0200 schrieb Ben Konrath: http://bagu.org/scratch/GNOME-dev-world-flyer.zip Small typo fixes: disablites misses two I and should be disabilities. distrobuitions should be distributions. evironment should be environment. Thanks! I made the corrections a re-posted the files: http://bagu.org/scratch/GNOME-dev-world-flyer-v2.zip http://bagu.org/scratch/GNOME-dev-world-flyer-v2.pdf The icons are bit messed up in the pdf because the inkscape print to pdf doesn't seem to be able to handle gradients. I'll have to work around that some how. Thank, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.
Hello all, I spent some time today creating a marketing flyer to promote GNOME is less economically developed countries. This is something that I would have liked to have had when I was represting GNOME at Idlelo earlier this year in Ghana. http://bagu.org/scratch/GNOME-dev-world-flyer.zip I've used inkscape to do the layout. I guess it's not the best tool for this but I'm trying to learn how to use it better. I don't know how or if it's possible to embed a png image into the svg so you'll have to edit the properties of the png screen shot and point it to the right location on your computer. The target for the flyer is non-technical, new users from less economically developed countries who may or may not use Linux. I would apprciate some feedback on: layout, content and please check the text for spelling and grammar for errors. I'd like to send this to some FOSS user groups in Zambia next next week through a contact that works with them. If I could get some feedback by Wednesday November 3rd, that would be great. Thanks and happy Friday! Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: posters or banner for the North American Event Box
Hi, I ended up printing the ‘Official Desktop of Happy People’ and the ‘Preferred Language? All of them’ posters on heavy duty vinyl. I will send the posters to the North American GNOME event box when I’m back from Ghana. You can see a snapshot of one of the posters in this blog post: http://www.bagu.org/blog/2010/05/08/gnome-at-idlelo-4/ Cheers, Ben On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Ben Konrath b...@bagu.org wrote: Hi, I'm going to be running the GNOME Booth at Idlelo 4 [1] in a couple of weeks. I would like to print a couple of vinyl posters or a vinyl banner for use at the conference. After the conference is over I'm going to send the posters or banner to the North American event box. (I'm currently based in Toronto, Canada that's why I'm being NA centric). I initially thought that the current posters [2] would work well blown up as conference posters but now I'm thinking a banner might be better. What do people think? If we decide to go with a banner, I'll probably need some help creating it as I'm not too graphically inclined. I'm heading out to Idlelo on May 12th so I'd like to have this sorted out in about a week so that I have time to get things printed. Thanks, Ben 1. http://www.idlelo.net/ 2. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial# Official Desktop of Happy people, Preferred language? All of them!, Count on it -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
posters or banner for the North American Event Box
Hi, I'm going to be running the GNOME Booth at Idlelo 4 [1] in a couple of weeks. I would like to print a couple of vinyl posters or a vinyl banner for use at the conference. After the conference is over I'm going to send the posters or banner to the North American event box. (I'm currently based in Toronto, Canada that's why I'm being NA centric). I initially thought that the current posters [2] would work well blown up as conference posters but now I'm thinking a banner might be better. What do people think? If we decide to go with a banner, I'll probably need some help creating it as I'm not too graphically inclined. I'm heading out to Idlelo on May 12th so I'd like to have this sorted out in about a week so that I have time to get things printed. Thanks, Ben 1. http://www.idlelo.net/ 2. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial# Official Desktop of Happy people, Preferred language? All of them!, Count on it -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
New Poster: The GNOME Desktop: Open and Accessible
Hi Everyone! I just uploaded the a11y poster that Brad Taylor and I made at the a11y hackfest last month: http://www.bagu.org/gnome/poster-gnome-a11y.svg The text doesn't seem to render too well in Firefox so you'll have to use Inkscape to read it. Feedback is appreciated. I also uploaded the poster to the marketing material wiki page: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial Thanks, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Braille printing for conferences
Hi Stormy, On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: snip Accessibility: [photgraph of user interacting with A11Y tools] Is there a reason why there is no text for this section? Did you guys not have time to write something up during the meeting or was it lost in a cut 'n paste? :-) I'm really just wondering what's up just so I know if this is something the a11y team needs to write up if we go ahead with the Braille handouts. Cheers, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Braille printing for conferences
Hi Everyone! We have a Braille printing expert on staff here at the University of Toronto who has offered to help me with embossing the GNOME conference handout. Is there something ready for production yet? I can ask her to provide some input on how well it will transcribe to Braille and the issues involved with making a Braille handout with pictures and text. Cheers, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: North America Event Box needed for Eclipse Con on March 5-7th
Hi all, I just sent Rosanna the address to send the box so if everyone agrees that we can use the box, we should be good to go from my end. Thanks, Ben On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 18:09 -0500, Rosanna Yuen wrote: Hi, In order to get the box there in time, I would need to schedule the pickup tomorrow for shipment on Friday. After that, the price doubles. Any decisions need to be made quickly. Thanks, Rosanna On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 22:39 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi Ben, Ben Konrath wrote: I'm helping to coordinate the GNOME Booth at Eclipse Con again this year and I would like to know how I can request the North American Event Box. I would need the box from March 5 - 7th. Any help would be appreciated. Just putting the board in the loop - you don't have to do anything else to request the box. We'll let you know ASAP about the box. In the meantime, can you send in a name address for a recipient for the box, please? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: live CDs for conference booths
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 12:08 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: On 4/15/06, Ben Konrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I whipped up 50 GNOME 2.14 live CDs last night for distribution at conferences. I printed a simple image on the CD so they look semi-slick. I ended up using the same image we used for EclispeCon which can be seen here: http://www.bagu.org/pictures/EclipseCon-GNOME-booth3.jpg If you're graphically inclined and want to cook up a better image for the next round of CDs, that would be cool. Anyway, if you're running a booth somewhere, send me an address and I'll send you the CDs. JRB and I are actually trying to assemble a North American booth box like the European one: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationGrants/EventsBox It would be cool to throw those in there as soon as we get it together. I sent them down to JRB a couple of weeks ago, so he should have them by now. Cheers, Ben signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Report from the GNOME booth at Eclispe Con
On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 11:31 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: On 4/14/06, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben, what have you done with the actual hard-copy posters? They'd be nice to throw in the gear bag with some of the other stuff, so we could ship it around to other folks. Never mind; found the other thread about this. No worries. Just so everyone is in the know, I left the posters down in California because I thought they wouldn't be too useful with the typos. I'm getting new, more durable ones made with the corrections. They should be ready to send out by the next week. Ben signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Report from the GNOME booth at Eclispe Con
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 20:35 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 20:02 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: The posters and Live CD's looked *awesome* too! Except the 'dekstop' typo - http://www.bagu.org/pictures/EclipseCon-GNOME-booth3.jpg Would obviously be good to fix that before we print too many more posters. Already fixed and added to the MarketingMaterial wiki page :) Thanks. Cheers, Ben signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Report from the GNOME booth at Eclispe Con
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 15:51 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Ben Konrath wrote: I actually noticed these problems at the conference and when I got back updated the text and submitted my changes to Andreas. He hasn't had time to update his posters or didn't want my changes, which is why I posted my updated versions. FWIW, I like the typoed versions - they have a cheeky charm. And who wouldn't want a dekstop? :-) Ben signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
plan for the EclipseCon GNOME booth
Hi, Now that my plans for the EclipseCon GNOME booth have solidified a little, I just wanted to run them by this list to get some comments or suggestions. I going to get these three posters professionally printed and have them on display: http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/officialdekthappy.svg http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/poster-ontheminute.svg http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/poster-language.svg (with corrected spelling mistake) I might even get them printed on something that won't get damaged in transit so that I can pass them on to other people running such booths in the future. I'd also like to print out a flyer that I can hand out to people at the conference. I found this one on the Marketing Material page: http://www.viralata.net/blog/archives/2004/10/13/why-choose-gnome-out-in-pdf/ but I'd like to have something more colourful. I noticed that the images on the front page of gnome.org are kinda slick (nice colours and graphics, simple and to the point slogan: Power Combined). Unfortunately, I'm not a graphics whiz and I don't really have time to make up a little flyer based on those images. If somebody feels like lending a hand, that would be cool. As far as the demo DVD goes, I'm going to use kadischi to generate a live-DVD based on pre Fedora Core 5. The reason I chose Fedora over Ubuntu is because I work with the Fedora version of Eclipse and I know that it is working well in Fedora at the moment. The discs will have GNOME 2.12, but I figured having a stable Eclipse was more important than the newest GNOME - it is EclipseCon after all :) In order to get the discs in time and at a reasonable cost, I bought a bunch of blank DVDs and an inkjet printer that can print on CDs/DVDs. I'm not sure how well it will work, but I'll post a message to the list when I'm done. Anyway, that's my plan. Please let me know if you have any comments or suggestions. Thanks, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: making live CDs for EclipseCon
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:55:03 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: [I'd definitely suggest adding java-gnome: http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/bin/view/Main/GetJavaGnome as well.] Yeah, that was my plan. I'm going to add the java-gnome eclipse plugin that I hacked up too. Anyway, the CDs that were handed out at GUADEC last year were kinda slick because they had a nice pretty graphic. Does anybody know how they were made or where the graphic came from? Hrm. Not sure how the GUADEC liveCD images were made; I'm guessing they were expensive (because of the color); inkscape plus some tracing made for a nice-looking and cheap liveCD for LWE Boston last year. Did you burn them and print the image with an inkjet printer yourself or did you use a duplication service? http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLiveCd has all the instructions I have used in the past to generate liveCDs; I admit I have not tested them with Ubuntu Dapper so I don't know how well they work right now. Thanks, I'll update the wiki if I find any problems. Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
making live CDs for EclipseCon
Hi, I'm going to be running a GNOME booth at EclipseCon this year (March 20 - 23) and I want to make a live CD with GNOME 2.14 and Eclipse. Looking at the release date for 2.14, I might have to change that to GNOME 2.12. Anyway, the CDs that were handed out at GUADEC last year were kinda slick because they had a nice pretty graphic. Does anybody know how they were made or where the graphic came from? Any other details that might help me put something together would be appreciated. Thanks, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
