----- Original Message ----- > From: "mihaela jurkovic" <mihaela.jurko...@gmail.com> > To: "Frédéric Guimont" <frederic.guim...@savoirfairelinux.com> > Cc: "Brynn" <br...@frii.com>, "Inkscape-Devel" > <inkscape-de...@lists.sourceforge.net>, "Inkscape-Docs" > <inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 5:18:48 PM > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] how about some marketing and outreach?
> Hi Frédéric, > > thank you for offering a helping hand, a comic with some topic related to the > new release would be most welcome! Or several even :D > My pleasure. Inkscape has been my favorite application for over ten years now. > You're creative and can come up with something appropriate. Maybe something > funny or catchy, twitter and FB friendly that would get spread wide? I'll talk about it with my co-creator and see if we can't come up with something. > > Lovely comic drawing, although I suspect the dialogue is even more salient :) I'm working on making the meta-data available eventually (so people can translate it). > > I've been playing a lot with SVG on the web lately and would love to see more > of > it, in line with what Martin suggested. If not it would at least be useful to > have the text as text below the image, so Google can take a stab at > translating > it. Retyping it to Google translate is too much of a bother, but having an > easy > way to translate would attract more audience. I play a lot with SVG on the web. Let me know if you ever need help. > > Mihaela > > On 12.10.2016 17:07, Frédéric Guimont wrote: > >> Hi mihaela, > >> I'm willing to help out on marketing and web issues too. I'm currently >> making a >> weekly webcomic (in french) using only inkscape. If I can help with a comic, >> I'd be happy to do that too. > >> Here's the link, for the curious, (don't mean to spam, though I think it's on >> topic): http://quebeccite.com I can also help moderate the forums, make >> tutorials and such (I've made an intro to the powerstroke a while back on >> youtube). >> -- >> Frédéric Guimont, Consultant en logiciels libres >> Savoir-faire Linux > >> Téléphone : 418-525-7354 #362 >> Ring ID : d9396b8004d26120f1e948ac7a075ab7dd165077 >> www.savoirfairelinux.com >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "mihaela jurkovic" <mihaela.jurko...@gmail.com> To: "Brynn" >> <br...@frii.com> , "Inkscape-Devel" <inkscape-de...@lists.sourceforge.net> , >> "Inkscape-Docs" <inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Sunday, October >> 9, >> 2016 10:56:46 PM >> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] how about some marketing and outreach? > >> Hi all! > >> Thank you Brynn for your intro and welcoming me back to the community 😊 it's >> great to be back and you can count me in all Inkscape activities except >> programming :) > >> Some years ago I used to know every little detail happening around Inkscape >> development and in the community. I wasn't very vocal on the lists, mainly >> because I'm not a programmer and couldn't contribute that way, and there >> didn't >> seem to be a lot of non-programming discussions, but I read all the news, >> triaged bugs in the tracker, compiled nightly builds often and tested my >> behind >> off. I also helped in the forum, at first with the usual questions about >> using >> Inkscape, since I knew a lot of tips and tricks, and later fighting spam :p > >> I probably won't be able to commit as much time now, since I'm not giving up >> on >> Drupal, but I hope to come close. I can block a certain number of hours to >> Inkscape each week. I'd love it if you (devs, forum and website committee, >> users) would steer the efforts around website, forum and user community in >> general. Every project needs more users, a larger and more active community. >> But setting a more specific goal can better the chances of success and >> clarify >> which areas are more beneficial to focus on. > >> * What type of community members do we most direly need more of: >> developers, >> testers, professional designers who use Inkscape, hobbyist users, >> evangelists...? And how many? Do we have any stats about the current >> state? >> * How many new developers and their quality/time commitment would be >> ideal in >> the next year? >> * Should Inkscape be branded more as a vector editor in general or SVG >> editor >> (SVG has become a buzzword in web community)? >> * Inkscape has been mentioned as not the best editor for SVG for the web, >> which >> I can't agree with. Is this something you think we should try and change? >> * Should we position Inkscape more strongly with respects to other vector >> and >> SVG editors (Sketch, AI)? >> * What kind of articles would help spread Inkscape (tutorials, reviews, >> user >> testimonies, comics...)? Where should they be published? >> * ... any other topic that should be considered? > >> I hope you don't mind me opening with a bag of questions instead of an >> actionable plan, I haven't forgotten the "code first, ask questions later" >> guideline, but with this type of work questions are the proper procedure to >> start with in order to achieve results more efficiently. > >> Areas where I can help are the forum (installation, migration? and as a mod), >> website (limited), marketing and branding, FLOSS manual, and the usual >> testing >> and bug tracking. Let me know if you think I should focus more on some and >> less >> on the other areas. > >> I can't not mention Tav's manual, to continue on Brynn's thought. That manual >> was what brought me to Inkscape and made me stick with it, and it made me >> skilful. (I'm also a proud owner of the printed version, hefty book Tav in >> many >> ways!) > >> And then it makes sense to ask: What is the usual way users discover >> Inkscape? >> What makes them stick? > >> Thank you again for welcoming me back, I hope we boost Inkscape community in >> the >> next year! > > > Mihaela aka prkos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-docs mailing list Inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs
