On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 08:24 -0700, DuBois, Scott L. wrote:

We could take one (or two) designs from everyone who contributed and then use "highlight point" data of interest from the new release to create a presentation. I'm thinking somewhere along the lines of around 20 slides? If there needs to be more then we can create them.

I don't think that's what Andy was asking about. He's asking about creating the slide template (background of the slides) that we can hand off to people to create their own presentations on. Oftentimes, when some Ambassador is attending a local conference, they will either look at a set of slides created by the marketing team (different from artwork team) or create their own presentation by grabbing the template for the current release version. We typically make the template reflect the desktop look and feel in order to maintain a consistent release theme throughout the 8 month period. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

I completely understand. I was just thinking (as a proposal or perhaps a different side project) that we represent as a community our community contributions in our public presentations? We have two agendas that we are approaching at conferences, summits and public presentations: 1. Promote openSUSE and how awesome our system is and how great Linux works 2. Promote how great it is to be involved with a community project and openSUSE community in particular What I am thinking is figuring out a way to go "beyond" just the desktop images and incorporate all the contributions that went into helping to promote this release and all the releases to follow. When a person sees one image over and over, they may think "monopoly" which we are not M$. We work as a community and our releases and everything involved with our distribution is community driven. While I agree with staying "theme" driven, I think it would be nice, cool, awesome (insert motivational adjective here) to perhaps use the desktop as the primary background and then incorporate a border or something made up of the various submissions. Something that emphasizes a community effort. Eventually I believe we would like to see 10, 20, 50, 100 artists all contributing something to the release and all being recognized for that contribution no matter how small it was or whether or not it was "selected" to be "the" default desktop for that release. While everyone who contributes may not be a talented artist, it doesn't mean their contributions should fall to the way side as "not good enough" or into a bottomless submission pit. It's a big task and with only 8 days left, now may not be the time to think along these lines, I believe it is worth thinking about though. Scott~ On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Andres Silva wrote:

Exactly right. Every release we update the slides to a new version inspired design in case there are ambassadors who want to hold an information session about openSUSE. These slides are in git and can be tweaked to the new version. Generally, we just change the background, but more can be done with them.

Andy (anditosan)

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:

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On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 08:24 -0700, DuBois, Scott L. wrote:

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We could take one (or two) designs from everyone who contributed and then use "highlight point" data of interest from the new release to create a presentation. I'm thinking somewhere along the lines of around 20 slides? If there needs to be more then we can create them.

I don't think that's what Andy was asking about. He's asking about creating the slide template (background of the slides) that we can hand off to people to create their own presentations on.

Oftentimes, when some Ambassador is attending a local conference, they will either look at a set of slides created by the marketing team (different from artwork team) or create their own presentation by grabbing the template for the current release version. We typically make the template reflect the desktop look and feel in order to maintain a consistent release theme throughout the 8 month period.

Bryen

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On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 19:30 -0600, Andres Silva wrote:

I have now pushed 4 sets of slides to git with changes. However, I am not sure if the other slideshows need to be updated as well. For example OBS, SUSE studio and so on.

Is that necessary yet? I updated the ones that introduce openSUSE only.

Andy (anditosan)

Please don't top-post. Also, no need to do a Reply-to-All. No need for us to get double copies of the same emial. Just do a reply-to-list. I haven't looked at these slides, but judging by what you are writing here, it sounds like you updated existing slideshows with 12.2 artwork. Based on what we discussed in IRC channel and on this thread, that's not what people are looking for. They're asking for a slide template with the 12.2 artwork that they can then create new slideshows off of. Did you create a template? Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

On Monday, September 17, 2012 16:42:42 Jos Poortvliet wrote:

On Monday, August 27, 2012 08:14:24 Andres Silva wrote:

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Since 12.2 is ad portas, there is a need to update the presentation slides used to introduce openSUSE to other people. You can find them here

https://github.com/openSUSE/artwork/tree/master/slides

We need to update these to a 12.2 inspired design. Any takers?

You probably noticed that the design used in the current slides is, unlike our previous designs, NOT release dependent. It looks far more professional and doesn't need replacement all the time. I personally would vote for NOT making something based on our release artwork but keeping things as they are.

Content-wise, I'll hope to find time soon(ish) to work on this...

BTW my opinion isn't very important - if you folks feel that we should have 12.2 artwork for the slides, awesome, get me a template and I can work on updating the slides tomorrow or whenever I have time ;-)

/Jos

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Andy (anditosan)