> ----- Original message ----- > From: "Dave Neary" <[email protected]> > To: "List for community development" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: maemo.org preferred tools and formats > Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:58:19 +0100 > > > Hi, > > Andrew Flegg wrote: > > Stick a wiki page up: > > > > * SVG (Inkscape enhanced fine) > > * PNG > > * ODF > > * ODP > > * PDF (for stuff which is not intended to be edited) > > Add TIFF, JPG, HTML, I would think. >
JPG and HTML added, as well as numerous others.� I now have a table in progress on google docs: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQ...ODJ2cWNx&hl=en�(editable by all) talk thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=43681 I am testing apps as I build the table so it's very slow going. > The question raises an issue - where should this type of stuff go in the > wiki? I don't necessarily mean categories (ot could be Category:Media > and Users I suppose), but more where does it fit in the navigation? > Clearly this is not a link for the front page (which needs some cleaning > up I think), but if someone comes onto the front page looking for this > kind of information, what link would they look for & click? Good question.� I think we need a high-level Standards category.� Under it would come the logo, fonts, file formats, templates, themes etc. > > > More interesting, IMHO, are the standard presentation templates I've > > been (intermittently) trying to get some momentum for for the past 2.5 > > years. But having a set of standard formats for collaboration within > > the community can't be bad. > > I'm not a fan of presentation templates at all - and I think that effort > put into making them would not be time well spent. Templates sometimes > (often?) encourage poor practice in slide design, and the template > elements like logos distract from the message you're working to get > across. I don't need to see a maemo.org logo on every slide for a Maemo > presentation. > > Personal opinion, of course, but I'd much prefer to teach people good > presentation style than to have everyone use the same template to > artificially enforce a visual identity. I find templates useful as a good launch point if nothing else, and can help when a dominant theme (eg, Maemo Summit) is important. > > Cheers, > Dave. > > -- > maemo.org docsmaster > Email: [email protected] > Jabber: [email protected] > > Randall (Randy) Arnold maemo.org community council http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > maemo-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community > -------------------------------------------------------------- Ovi Mail: Get mail on your mobile or the web http://mail.ovi.com
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