Re: Get the promo booklet ready by January

Hi Carl,

the actual plan is to get it ready for Fosdem (5-6 feb), but i dont know if it 
is possible. because we have to check if the layout is printable in the way i 
imagined and usually the discussions with printers can take a while.

if Eugene is able to finish the artwork by the end of januaray we still have a 
chance to get the booklet ready. it would be great to show Eugene the booklet 
and wait for his response because i have no idea how much time he needs to 
make a good cover and some nice background images for the empty sidebars.

thanks.

cheers

felix


> I may have someone who can lend a hand. Not coincidentally, Eugene
> Trounev who did the artwork for the KDE e.V. quarterly report. Eugene
> asks when the booklet really needs to be done. The subject header says
> January. What's the real plan now? How much still needs to be done?
> How long will it take? I know...ASAP, but there is not anything in the
> booklet that has a specific date attached to it.
> 
> It's worthwhile giving Eugene some time to work with. He creates
> gorgeous imagery. His work and ideas will add considerably to the
> impact of the booklet.
> 
> Please let me know what kind of time frame we have to work with.
> 
> Carl
> 
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Damien Tardy-Panis
> 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> > 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.
> > 
> > So, I sent an email a week ago but I didn't get a lot of answers... You
> > can check the small thread there :
> > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-artists&m=129408241416009&w=2. To summarize,
> > someone proposed his help for the screenshots but that's all. I came to
> > the oxygen IRC as recommend by Nuno but I didn't find anybody to do the
> > cover or the artwork (maybe, I do something wrong there, I'm not used to
> > IRC). So this is a bit problematic for us...
> > Any suggestions ?
> > Damien
> > 
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