Re: Get the promo booklet ready by January

2011/1/3 Felix Michel <[email protected]>

> 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?
>
>
Yes, of course, I will write and send it this evening.


>
> > - 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.
>

Ok great ! For the captions, maybe we should wait for the final screenshots.
I will add these captions if you want once it's done.


>
> thanks again.
>
> cheers
>
> felix
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