---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tord Jansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:19 PM Subject: Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Announcement: SpreadUbuntu 0.1 - codename "evan" To: Rubén Romero y Cordero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rubén, First of all I would like to thank and congratulate you and the rest of your team for your work on SpreadUbuntu. I believe a site like SpreadUbuntu is long overdue and will be a cornerstone in the future DIY marketing of Ubuntu. I attempted to add my posters (currently available from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/Materials/) but unfortunately I ran into a problem. My posters are available as PDFs since they that way provide superior printing quality as well as a smaller size compared to bitmap images and the source code is in SLA-format (made with Scribus). I could easily upload the source code as a zip-file, but I can not upload the PDFs as images! May I suggest that you allow PDF as a format for huge images besides the bitmap formats specified? I also find it weird that you allow pdf as source files since pdf definitely isn't any source file format suitable for edit. The way that would make most sense to me is if I could put a thumbnail image as "Image", the PDF as "Huge Image" and the zip as "Source File". After all, PDF is THE cross-platform portable format for print content, including posters. Huge Images is in my mind a much worse solution for creating print content although it should remain an option. In many cases I also provide multiple versions of the same posters (with and without tear-away-tabs, colorful or ink conservative versions), it would be nice (but not necessary) if these somehow could be grouped together under the same thumbnail and with the same source files. If not it would be nice if you could advice me how you would like me to handle them (upload them separately or maybe bunch them together in the source archive?) Once again, I'm very glad you have put a first version of SpreadUbuntu online and would gladly contribute with content. Regards, Tord Jansson Sweden Rubén Romero y Cordero wrote: Hello fellow Ubunteros! I am going to announce the first release of what in time will be come the SpreadUbuntu Do-It-Yourself repository for marketing material. This is not official yet, but calling it a usable alpha is not unfair. I am asking all of you to tell all ubuntu enthusiasts about our project and invite them to use it, to come to our site and thus get the repository bigger and more relevant for the global ubuntu community! You can visit it here: http://ubuntu.ec/su/drupal5/ I leave you the release announcement just below my signature. Best regards, Rubén Romero https://launchpad.net/~huayra <https://launchpad.net/%7Ehuayra> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After over two weeks of site tunning, bug fixing and<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue114#Spread%20Ubuntu%20Alpha%200.1> lots<http://nancib.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/pengs-links-for-saturday-25-october/> of <http://www.ossblog.it/post/4501/spreadubuntu-alpha> news<http://punto-informatico.it/2457489/PI/Commenti/ubuntu-810-stambecco-intrepido.aspx> coverage <http://ubuntupodcast.net/2008/11/08/ubuntu-podcast-episode-11/>(which, by the way, helped test the site) let me introduce to you: *SpreadUbuntu 0.1 - "evan"* Evan <https://launchpad.net/%7Eedb82189> is by far the greatest contributor to our project and the first release goes to him! Cheers mate! *So what do we have here?* *The short story:* SpreadUbuntu <https://launchpad.net/%7Espreadubuntu>, a project by the Ubuntu Marketing team<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-marketing>. This release includes multilingual support and basic features of what in time will become the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) part of the SpreadUbuntu Marketing site. Among our features we have *download, upload and share all kind of ubuntu marketing material so we can all go out and SPREAD ubuntu to the masses!* Now you have no excuse for not having that flyer in your own language, or the poster you saw *somewhere* on the internet! If this sounds interesting please read *the long story.* It can be found here <https://launchpad.net/spreadubuntu/0.1/0.1>. Does this sound like something you want to be part of? The easiest way to do it is to *use the site yourself AND to tell everyone about it!** *Besides that you can put your hands to work and become part of SpreadUbuntu, we have already plans for 0.2 <https://launchpad.net/spreadubuntu/0.2/+milestones>. Our team <https://edge.launchpad.net/%7Espreadubuntu> and project<https://launchpad.net/%7Espreadubuntu>are in Launchpad, and we also have a space in the UbuntuWiki <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/Projects/SpreadUbuntu>. *I hear you say it, but where is all this awesomeness?* Don't hesitate, you are NOT dreaming: *it's right here<http://ubuntu.ec/su/drupal5/> !* You may kill our bandwidth, but hey, we can always upgrade our slicehost<http://www.slicehost.com/>plan for a month or two. As for the server I believe it will be up to the task: It is after all running your favorite server OS<http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition> [image: ;)]** * Go UbuSpreaders(tm), go!*
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