[kde-artists] Re: Need artwork/screenshots/cover for the KDE promo booklet
Nuno Pinheiro <[email protected]>
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A Quinta, 6 de Janeiro de 2011 18:43:18 Damien Tardy-Panis você escreveu: > 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]> Sory the kde-artist mainling list is a bit slow :) may bad you probably have better luck on #oxygen in IRC thats were we usualy are cheers > > > 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 -- Nuno Pinheiro | [email protected] | UI Designer Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions ______________________________________________________________________________ [email protected] | https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-artists