Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (281 mails)

[Manu Gupta <manugupt1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Uploading to git now

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2011-03-09 Pieter wrote:
> > > Nice. We already have some slideshow information, would you be
> > > willing to create a few more of those and put it online with the
> > > other marketing
> >
> > > materials in this area:
> > What is the context I should be keeping in mind? Is this still for
> > the website or is it for a booth slideshow (like your wiki link
> > says)? Cuz I have made some booth slides a few weeks ago but I
> > haven't posted them to the wiki yet. Download is available at:
> > http://www.box.net/shared/mhcya0t2p9
>
> Both, put it on the wiki please! If it is big (and I guess it is) please
> ask Kostas or someone else with access to git to upload it there.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Pieter
> >
> > 2011/3/9 Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > > On 2011-02-24 Pieter wrote:
> > > > +1 for a slideshow - that would be an attention grabber. But
> > > > which format would you like to use for the slideshow? I have
> > > > three ideas.
> > > >
> > > > - SCREENSHOTS. Show off some of the things that are unique to
> > > > openSUSE and by extension Linux. One image with a caption on each
> > > > slide. - TALKING POINTS. Rotate between a few one-liners that
> > > > highlight key advantages over other operating systems or
> > > > distributions. Use neutral, abstract backgrounds. Here's an
> > > > example I put together in five minutes using existing material:
> > > > http://i.imgur.com/ob0tz.png You can link these talking points to
> > > > other pages for more information.
> > >
> > > Nice. We already have some slideshow information, would you be
> > > willing to create a few more of those and put it online with the
> > > other marketing materials in this area:
> > > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_materials#Slideshow
> > >
> > > > - BOTH. Explain talking points briefly and balance out the text
> > > > with an image or a screenshot. Ubuntu's website at
> > > > http://www.ubuntu.com/ features a good example. This approach
> > > > requires more space than is available in the website design
> > > > draft however, otherwise the slideshow would look packed and
> > > > wouldn't be inviting to take a look at.
> > > >
> > > > I like the design, but I noticed that the column alignment isn't
> > > > entirely consistent.
> > > > I highlighted the table grid in blue here:
> > > > http://i.imgur.com/qGMu6.png
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Pieter
> > > >
> > > > 2011/2/24 Thomas Schmidt <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > > On 24.02.2011 08:55, Manu Gupta wrote:
> > > > > > Hi All
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I know it is abrupt but I need some help
> > > > > > Have a look at this http://suseware.com/trial/extended.php
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I will like all of us to apply our minds to get a set of
> > > > > > images that can work as a slide show instead of the 11.2
> > > > > > box..
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Also, please check the links below.. see if something is
> > > > > > missing
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I know I have to add twitter, identica and facebook
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Manu!
> > > > > I agree we should replace the box with a slideshow.
> > > > > Some more things we need to work on until we can put this into
> > > > > production: - I18n: Probably we should use PHP Gettext for
> > > > > this. We need the language dependant content in .pot files, so
> > > > > we can make use of our translation community to have the
> > > > > landing page in many languages
> > > > > - Automatic redirect to the users language
> > > > > - The bento javascript files should get sourced from static.o.o
> > > > > so we don't have to update all sites when something changes in
> > > > > the menu.
> > > > > - The 'openSUSE Project' box: I'm not sure we need that, maybe
> > > > > we should just add more links in the text on the left side, as
> > > > > those links are also in the header and the footer Instead of
> > > > > this I would add an additional box with the latest community
> > > > > blogs from planetsuse.
> > > > >
> > > > > Could you push this to our infrastructure svn at:
> > > > > https://developer.berlios.de/projects/opensuse/ So we can work
> > > > > together on it?
> > > > >
> > > > > Greetings
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org)
> > > > > openSUSE Boosters Team
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