Hi, @Guillaume In fact, the Autoflow picture looks grainy because my scan is low quality. In the book , the illustration looks better. But I will try to give it a vintage effect. It seems there is a Gimp effect to do the job.
@Vincent Why not ! Do you think it is a good idea ? @Caty + Ricardo Thank you for your response. Maxime 2010/12/3 Guillaume Lerouge <[email protected]>: > 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 > > > 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 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 > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
