Re: [Picture book] Getting photos

2009-01-05 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: Procedures are available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Picture_book#Submitting_your_image Let me know if you think they should be changed. I've got a watch on the page. Media in a category automatically shows up in a gallery format -- after they enter the "to be approved"

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Ian Weller
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:44:18PM -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > 2009/1/5 Ian Weller : > > My plan I emailed a day or two ago called for an 8.5" square paperback > > with 80 full color pages. > > If I was forced to choose, I'd take color pages over hardback... but > that seems a little odd that you

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2009/1/5 Ian Weller : > My plan I emailed a day or two ago called for an 8.5" square paperback > with 80 full color pages. If I was forced to choose, I'd take color pages over hardback... but that seems a little odd that you can't do both. -jef -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marke

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Ian Weller
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 09:06:08PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:55:17PM -0600, Ian Weller wrote: > > The only real reason I would want to do this is if we decreased the > > purchase price accordingly. I think the less hassle we put on us (have > > distributors do the w

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:55:17PM -0600, Ian Weller wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 09:29:18PM -0800, Doug Berry wrote: > > When I mentioned using Wal-mart or Amazon as vendors, that > > is of course one way we could go. We will have that > > automatically when we register with LSI. But the most

Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Ian Weller
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:52:51PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > If I wanted to be a glory hog I'd have requested one intro, and use it > in all four books. Four times the royalties, woohoo! ;-) > And yet, I ask... *what* royalties :P -- Ian Weller http://ianweller.org GnuPG

Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:45:50PM -0600, Ian Weller wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:24:10AM -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Max Spevack wrote: > > > If there's 4 books, I'd be honored to write an introduction for one of > > > them > > > as an ex-FPL. :) > > >

[Picture book] Getting photos

2009-01-05 Thread Ian Weller
We're going to use the Fedora Project wiki for uploading photos. This ensures that people who are submitting photos have indeed signed the CLA. I discussed the alternatives with Mo and it seemed like the wiki was a good solution, and Infrastructure stated that the amount of storage space shouldn't

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Ian Weller
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 09:29:18PM -0800, Doug Berry wrote: > When I mentioned using Wal-mart or Amazon as vendors, that > is of course one way we could go. We will have that > automatically when we register with LSI. But the most profitable > way to go would be to sell any books ourselves. If a v

Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Ian Weller
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:24:10AM -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Max Spevack wrote: > > If there's 4 books, I'd be honored to write an introduction for one of them > > as an ex-FPL. :) > > Maybe...there's a place for the entire membership of the League of > Ex-FPL

Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Max Spevack wrote: > If there's 4 books, I'd be honored to write an introduction for one of them > as an ex-FPL. :) Maybe...there's a place for the entire membership of the League of Ex-FPL to write something appropriate for one of the 4 book themes. -jef -- Fe

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Doug Berry
--- On Mon, 1/5/09, Nicu Buculei wrote > > I think we may have enough in-house experience for the > task, so maybe the class room can be held by Fedora > "subject matter experts". Exactly, Nicu, thanks for the help on that other thing too. I could probably do a class on Scribus, since I have bui

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Nicu Buculei
Doug Berry wrote: One thing though. After FUDCON, when the pics start rolling in, we are going to be using Open Source Software to create the actual books. Most probably Scribus, Open Office, The Gimp, and ?. Maybe we could approach some of these projects and set-up an agreeable time for the m

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Doug Berry
--- On Mon, 1/5/09, Paul W. Frields wrote: > It seems to me that Max has got a plan for how to make the > finances > work out, whether that's by simply giving these as > community gifts or > using any income to fund other Fedora efforts (or simply > sustain the > publishing and gift-giving on the

Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:42:42AM -0800, Doug Berry wrote: > > --- On Mon, 1/5/09, Max Spevack wrote: > > > At this dollar figure, is it better to just produce them > > and hand them out as gifts to the community? We're not > > talking about huge amounts of money here (comparatively). > > Exa

Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Doug Berry
--- On Mon, 1/5/09, Max Spevack wrote: > At this dollar figure, is it better to just produce them > and hand them out as gifts to the community? We're not > talking about huge amounts of money here (comparatively). Exactly. Maybe the first bound book as a community give-a-way. We'd have to eat

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 09:29:18PM -0800, Doug Berry wrote: > > (However I'm not sure who needs to register on > > LSI's website if Max is > > the one getting all the moneys.) > > I definitely think it should be Max, or someone Red Hat. > LSI is going to like much better dealing with an establishe

Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Pierre-Yves
Max Spevack wrote: On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Ian Weller wrote: 1. Does this sound reasonable? Does it seem viable that we can sell 105 copies in a year? For those who will be in the book, or other Fedora contributors, or other Fedora fans, the $60 for the first set of four price seems a bit larg

Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Ian Weller wrote: Lightning Source would then send us a royalty check, I think it's every three months. We can just have them send it to Max and he can disburse any funds. You OK with this, Max? We could just plan for this, and it would make me feel a lot better if we got