Hi Maxime, looks great :-) Thanks for the effort!
I have only one suggestion: the picture on the AUTOFLOW ad looks a bit "grainy", which is part of what makes it look vintage. It might be cool to add the same "grainy" effect to the XWiki ad, WDYT? Merry Christmas to you as well!! Guillaume On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 09:30, Maxime Sinclair <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello XWiki Community, > > Christmas is coming, and I have a gift for you. I hope you will enjoy it. > > As you may know, recently, a Brazilia advertising agency produce fake > vintage ads for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype. I thought these > posters are really amazing. You will find the story here > > http://www.dailybloggr.com/2010/08/cool-vintage-ads-of-facebook-twitter-youtube-skype/ > > More recently, I read the book "From Airline Reservations to Sonic the > Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry" by Martin Campbell-Kelly > (2003). Each chapter is illustrated by an official old ad of a > software. And I was charmed by the poster of AUTOFLOW, showing the > face of a woman with beautiful eyes. > http://u1.ipernity.com/17/25/71/9552571.c1e1c1ef.jpg > > This give me an idea : to make a fake XWiki ad, copying the Autoflow > one. Of course, XWiki is a so great wiki that it doesn't need > advertising to spread the world. Maybe it can help... It's the result > of this idea that I'm glad to give you today. > > I paid attention to produce this work with public domain material so I > think I can publish this poster in the public domain (even if I'm far > from being a license specialist). So I encourage you to print it on > your t-shirt, on your mug, to modify it, to share it, to redistribute > it. > I've tried to preserve the message of the ad, just replacing some > words, or at least to retain the spirit of the original sentences. But > I'm sure you can find better arguments and it's easy to edit with > Gimp. > > This page will show you the fake ad for XWiki in a small size but it's > easier to compare with the original work : > http://www.ipernity.com/doc/sinclair/9552524 > > The full work is available in a public google doc folder (you don't > need to have an account) > > https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B2p8AuezuBCcZDc2MWY0M2EtNjBiNC00MWRmLWEzZTktNTJmOGVmMTE5MDFj&hl=en > - copyrights.txt describes the origins of the photo and fonts used > - XWikiForChristmas.xcf is the Gimp file of the poster > - XWikiForChristmas.jpg is the full resolution image (exported from Gimp) > > > For your information, Autoflow was a software development tool that > produces automatically the flowchart of a computer program. In 1965, > Autoflow was the first commercial software to be sold as an > independant product (not attached to a hardware device). It was a big > success for ADR, its editor, with more than 10000 units sold. > > To conclude, I hope this encourage you, the XWiki community, to > develop smart features, to maintain a high level of quality and to > support kindly stupid users. > > Long live XWiki and merry Christmas to you and your family. > > Maxime Sinclair > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
