Nice Maxime! We could put this somewhere on xwiki.org for visibility.
Any idea where it could fit? Maybe as a blog post? Thanks -Vincent On Dec 3, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Maxime Sinclair 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
