[kde-artists] Re: Need artwork/screenshots/cover for the KDE promo booklet

Seriously, nobody would like to do this ? Nobody can ?
... I'm a bit disappointed!
I expected that someone could do a small thing at least to help us :-(

Damien

2011/1/3 Damien Tardy-Panis <[email protected]>

> Hi everybody !
>
> I'm Damien and I'm currently helping the promo team on a promotional
> booklet for KDE.
> About the booklet : "The goal of the booklet is to introduce a wide range
> of people to the KDE community and to what we have created. There is a
> strong focus on those who barely know Free Software, let alone KDE. They
> will probably be most attracted by our software, so that's where the focus
> lies. This booklet should give an interesting overview of what we have, and
> end with who we are and how you could join - for those interested. It will
> be handed out to interested people at trade shows."
>
> The content is done, and the layout will be finished soon. You can take a
> look at a first draft here : http://www.tradukt.ch/kde_booklet.pdf. Don't
> focus too much on this draft, there will be soon some changes there
> following several feedback we had.
>
> I'm sending this mail here because we would need some artwork to put in
> that booklet, and some help on the screenshots.
>
> In the current state you can notice that some pages are half filled and
> some sidebars are empty which is not so cool... In the second draft that
> will be released, we planned to get rid of some of them, and to put text in
> some others. But we thought that some artwork might make the all booklet
> more appealing, which is essential given the targeted people. We don't know
> exactly what we want as artwork, we prefer let you propose what you think is
> the best for a promotional booklet like this one. After all, this is your
> chosen field ;-)
> The goal is not to completely change all the layout (Felix is quite busy
> and already spent a lot of time doing it) but rather adding some stuff on
> empty spaces. But your feedback is also precious so if you see some little
> things that can be improved...
>
> Besides this artwork, we also need a cover for this booklet, and if
> someone could provide better screenshots that look more professional than
> those we have, it will also be great !
>
> Well, I think I said everything... Ah yes, it will be great to have this
> booklet ready for FOSDEM (February 5-6, Brussels) to distribute a few copies
> there.
> If you need more precisions, don't hesitate to ask.
>
> Is there some people up for the artwork ?
> For the screenshots ?
> For the cover ?
>
> Any other suggestion is also welcomed of course ;-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cheers,
> Damien
>

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