Re: Get the promo booklet ready by January

Hey Damien,

Happy new year too and thanks for your comments.


> Yes I think you can include that part in the "Contribute chapter" as a
> subpart like "Get Involved" right after the "KDE teams" pages.
> I think it was designed to be like this.

alright, that´s perfect, i will put it in.

> Yes, I think we should maybe send a mail to the kde-artist mailing list to
> ask for their help on the cover and the screenshots (btw it seems that you
> strangely scaled current screenshots because they are stretched in the
> vertical direction, but that's not a problem for the moment). I also think
> we can ask them some artwork to put in the booklet : some pages have no
> content in the sidebar and rather than always putting there a text, we can
> put some drawings like those you can see in the background of the last KDE
> quaterly report http://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-quarterly-2010Q3.pdf. It will
> make the booklet more "animated". If they don't have time to provide
> several
> artwork, we can also put some available artwork from Oxygen icons and
> things
> like that.
> What do you think of all this ?

great idea! we dont need text all over, but empty spaces are just really bad. Could you write an email to kde-artist list and ask for a cover and so on?



> - As I said pages with nothing in the sidebar feels too much empty. We
> will
> deal with that with some artwork or new texts. For some pages, you can
> also
> transfer some texts from a box to a sidebar when there is a box in the
> page
> and nothing in the sidebar : pages 12, 20, 21.
> 
> - For the pages with "KDE teams boxes" in the Contribute chapter, I think
> we
> can do special pages for them. I mean no sidebar to use the full width,
> this
> way we can put all of them in the 2 facing pages (maybe with one different
> soft color for each ? Green tone ? otherwise it will be all grey...).
> Following the same idea, a special page for the "Links". I think it's
> better
> to have the description and the url on the same line (like what you did
> for
> the previous references) : it's easier to read (btw the previous text
> beginning with "We hope we enjoyed..." was written to be put just above
> these links in the same page).
> 
> - Personally I would slightly lower the tone of boxes' color. These are
> already highlighted due to their shape/position, no need to reinforce that
> with a dark color.
> 
> I have few other really small remarks that can wait some time :
> - check all application names to put them in bold (only once at the first
> appearance)
> - put links as links and not as text : if the booklet is also released as
> a
> pdf, it will be great to have real links you can click on.
> - put a caption for screenshots (as suggested by Agata and Jenny).

i will look into this. could someone add these captions? i will change the grey color of the boxes to a lighter grey and for the teams section i make something more appealing. the links part i have to check put it has to be done the way you said.

thanks again.

cheers

felix
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