Re: Conference Brochure

Hey Meg!

Thanks for working on this! It looks great to me. If the GUADEC team can
provide details on any other content they'd like, I could try to find a
visual designer to help finish the layout.

Allan

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 2:33 AM, meg ford <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Alberto and Allan,
>
> I finished a first draft of the brochure including the timeline you
> wanted. I'm linking to a PDF version [0] and I uploaded the svg to GitHub
> [1]. Allan et al, if you have time please send me feedback. Since I spend
> all my time coding these days it might look like crap :) I also updated the
> description of the town with info I found in the GUADEC bid. Let me know if
> you would like any of the info/wording changed. I also updated the
> sponsorship form so you can use it for 2017 [2].
>
> Thanks!
> Meg
>
>
> [0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8Rn9opx982NUjlZUXJ4SVJLZU0/
> view?usp=sharing
>
> [1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnom
> e-marketing/master/events/guadec/2017/conference-brochure-2017-sketch.svg
>
> [2] https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/blo
> b/master/events/guadec/2017/guadec-2017-sponsorship-form.odt
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Alberto Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey Meg!
>>
>> This is great timing! So yeah, we do need help on this, I think the first
>> step would be to take last years' version and update it a bit.
>>
>> Our one goal for this year would be to improve a justification on why
>> GUADEC is valuable for sponsors, not just in terms of perks, but also in
>> terms of the technology base. I'd been thinking of gathering quotes and
>> also explaining the technologies that GNOME has produced for the Linux
>> ecosystem, beyond desktop related stuff, that has been a benefit for these
>> potential sponsors.
>>
>> I'm attaching a concept that I was playing with which is a timeline for
>> technologies that have spawned out of the GNOME community, and cooked at
>> GUADEC.
>>
>> Beyond that, I don't have any more specifics, I guess the first step
>> would be to take last years (we're keeping the pricing), and try to update
>> it to reflect that it's about GUADEC 2017, that is going to be held in
>> Manchester etc etc... and once we have a draft we can iterate over it.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for offering your help Meg, this is really appreciated as
>> we've been looking for sponsors already and lacking an up to date brochure
>> has been an issue already. Let me know if you need anything from us.
>>
>>
>> 2016-12-12 2:52 GMT+00:00 meg ford <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> Allan mentioned that the GUADEC local team is interested in helping
>>> out with this year's event brochure. He said that the team has already
>>> done some work on it, so I'm writing to ask what has been done and how
>>> I can help get things finished up.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Meg
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Alberto Ruiz
>>
>
>

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