GNOME marketing material git repository

2010-12-17 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi, Is there a git repository where I can store revisions of my brochures and posters? I'm using a git repository locally and thought it be might be a good idea to start keep track of things on git.gnome.org. I realize that a 'git diff' doesn't produce meaningful results for svg files but it's sti

Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.

2010-11-26 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi Dave, Sorry I missed your question. I don't always monitor my mailing lists regularly these days. On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Juanjo Marin wrote: > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/developing-world-list > developing-world-l...@gnome.org > > But it's a not very active I'm afraid J

Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.

2010-11-20 Thread Ben Konrath
-fold-marks-p1.svg http://bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-brochure-with-fold-marks-p2.svg Cheers, Ben On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Ben Konrath wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: >> Sorry for the late feedback. I do have a few comments: >

Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.

2010-11-19 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi, On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: > Sorry for the late feedback. I do have a few comments: > > 1. The green background is quite blurry  giving a potential sub-par > impression on the display quality of the GNOME desktop. Maybe a plain color > or gradient background woul

Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.

2010-11-16 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi Andreas, On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > That looks really great, excellent work! > I would advice to export the icons as bitmaps and then add them to the > document as such, that way you can be sure that they render correctly. Make > sure to embed them rather than lin

Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.

2010-11-16 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi Stormy, On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > Hi Ben, > > That looks awesome! Thanks for the good work. > > Please be sure to put it on the wiki: > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/Resources I've been working with Joshua Joseph Garcìa who contacted me on

Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.

2010-10-30 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi Andre, On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > Am Freitag, den 29.10.2010, 15:33 +0200 schrieb Ben Konrath: >> http://bagu.org/scratch/GNOME-dev-world-flyer.zip > > Small typo fixes: > > "disablites" misses two I and should be "disabil

review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.

2010-10-29 Thread Ben Konrath
Hello all, I spent some time today creating a marketing flyer to promote GNOME is less economically developed countries. This is something that I would have liked to have had when I was represting GNOME at Idlelo earlier this year in Ghana. http://bagu.org/scratch/GNOME-dev-world-flyer.zip I've

Re: posters or banner for the North American Event Box

2010-05-08 Thread Ben Konrath
://www.bagu.org/blog/2010/05/08/gnome-at-idlelo-4/ Cheers, Ben On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Ben Konrath wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going to be running the GNOME Booth at Idlelo 4 [1] in a couple of > weeks. I would like to print a couple of vinyl posters or a vinyl > banner for u

posters or banner for the North American Event Box

2010-04-29 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi, I'm going to be running the GNOME Booth at Idlelo 4 [1] in a couple of weeks. I would like to print a couple of vinyl posters or a vinyl banner for use at the conference. After the conference is over I'm going to send the posters or banner to the North American event box. (I'm currently based

New Poster: "The GNOME Desktop: Open and Accessible"

2010-04-21 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi Everyone! I just uploaded the a11y poster that Brad Taylor and I made at the a11y hackfest last month: http://www.bagu.org/gnome/poster-gnome-a11y.svg The text doesn't seem to render too well in Firefox so you'll have to use Inkscape to read it. Feedback is appreciated. I also uploaded the p

Re: Braille printing for conferences

2009-12-07 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi Stormy, On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > Accessibility: > > [photgraph of user interacting with A11Y tools] Is there a reason why there is no text for this section? Did you guys not have time to write something up during the meeting or was it lost in a cut 'n paste? :-)

Re: Braille printing for conferences

2009-11-19 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi Everyone! We have a Braille printing expert on staff here at the University of Toronto who has offered to help me with embossing the GNOME conference handout. Is there something ready for production yet? I can ask her to provide some input on how well it will transcribe to Braille and the issue

Re: North America Event Box needed for Eclipse Con on March 5-7th

2007-02-22 Thread Ben Konrath
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 11:10 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 09:07 -0500, Ben Konrath wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just sent Rosanna the address to send the box so if everyone agrees > > that we can use the box, we should be good to go from my end

Re: North America Event Box needed for Eclipse Con on March 5-7th

2007-02-22 Thread Ben Konrath
> pickup tomorrow for shipment on Friday. After that, the price doubles. > Any decisions need to be made quickly. > > Thanks, > Rosanna > > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 22:39 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > > > Ben Konrath wrote: > > > I

North America Event Box needed for Eclipse Con on March 5-7th

2007-02-21 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi, I'm helping to coordinate the GNOME Booth at Eclipse Con again this year and I would like to know how I can request the North American Event Box. I would need the box from March 5 - 7th. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http

Re: live CDs for conference booths

2006-05-28 Thread Ben Konrath
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 12:08 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > On 4/15/06, Ben Konrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I whipped up 50 GNOME 2.14 live CDs last night for distribution at > > conferences. I printed a simple image on the CD so they look semi-sli

live CDs for conference booths

2006-04-15 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi, I whipped up 50 GNOME 2.14 live CDs last night for distribution at conferences. I printed a simple image on the CD so they look semi-slick. I ended up using the same image we used for EclispeCon which can be seen here: http://www.bagu.org/pictures/EclipseCon-GNOME-booth3.jpg If you're graphi

Re: Report from the GNOME booth at Eclispe Con

2006-04-15 Thread Ben Konrath
On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 11:31 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > On 4/14/06, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ben, what have you done with the actual hard-copy posters? They'd be > > nice to throw in the gear bag with some of the other stuff, so we > > could ship it around to other folks. > > Never

GNOME booth at MySQL Users Conference

2006-04-15 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi, When I was running the GNOME booth at Eclipse Con, Jay Pipes (jay ~at~ mysql ~dot~ com - Community Relations Manager, North America, MySQL Inc.) invited GNOME to run a booth at the MySQL Users Conference [1] April 24-27 in Santa Clara. The booth would be part of the Open Source pavilion and th

Re: Report from the GNOME booth at Eclispe Con

2006-04-05 Thread Ben Konrath
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 15:51 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Ben Konrath wrote: > > I actually noticed these problems at the conference and when I got back > > updated the text and submitted my changes to Andreas. He hasn't had time > > to update his posters or didn't

Re: Report from the GNOME booth at Eclispe Con

2006-04-05 Thread Ben Konrath
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 11:40 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi Murray, > > Murray Cumming wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 20:35 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: > >> Except the 'dekstop' typo - > > > > And "whenever" should probably be "whether" or "if". > > Any chance you could have a check over the rest

Re: Report from the GNOME booth at Eclispe Con

2006-04-05 Thread Ben Konrath
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 20:35 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 20:02 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: > > The posters and Live CD's looked *awesome* too! > > Except the 'dekstop' typo - > > http://www.bagu.org/pictures/EclipseCon-GNOME-booth3.jpg > > Would obviously be good

Report from the GNOME booth at Eclispe Con

2006-04-04 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi, I just wanted to take the time to let everyone know how the GNOME booth at Eclipse Con went. Eclipse Con was primarily attended by windows developers. Andrew Overholt and I bought an inkjet printer to make professional looking CDs that we could hand out but I honestly didn't think that we w

plan for the EclipseCon GNOME booth

2006-03-14 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi, Now that my plans for the EclipseCon GNOME booth have solidified a little, I just wanted to run them by this list to get some comments or suggestions. I going to get these three posters professionally printed and have them on display: http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/officialdektha

Re: making live CDs for EclipseCon

2006-03-06 Thread Ben Konrath
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:55:03 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > [I'd definitely suggest adding java-gnome: > http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/bin/view/Main/GetJavaGnome > > as well.] Yeah, that was my plan. I'm going to add the java-gnome eclipse plugin that I hacked up too. >> Anyway, the CD

making live CDs for EclipseCon

2006-03-01 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi, I'm going to be running a GNOME booth at EclipseCon this year (March 20 - 23) and I want to make a live CD with GNOME 2.14 and Eclipse. Looking at the release date for 2.14, I might have to change that to GNOME 2.12. Anyway, the CDs that were handed out at GUADEC last year were kinda slick b