Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (140 mails)

[Manu Gupta <manugupt1@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Rajko M. <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sunday, December 04, 2011 07:23:20 PM Manu Gupta wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I think its the perfect oppurtunity for everyone to start working on
> > openSUSE Magazine.  We all have been interested but the idea got lost
> > somewhere since none of us had enough time.
> >
> > One of the results of GCI was design for the magazine. While printing
> > of the magazine maybe very expensive. I think we can create this
> > magazine for inviting new sponsors to the project and also for the
> > upcoming openSUSE Conference.  So printing a few 100 copies and
> > sending it across should not matter but thats upto Jos to decide.
>
> Linux Journal changed this year from printed form to electronic.
> Reason, majority of expenses were around printing and delivering.
> Although, there is a lot of content on the web free of charge, they obviously
> hope to provide quality that poeple will pay for.
>
> Reading printed on a paper is interesting only to older generation growing
> with books and magazines, younger use computers and related devices.
>
> What can make magazine interesting and worth to read is quality content.
> Blogs, forums posts, wiki, IRC have various level of quality, magazine should
> be much more serious about its selection of published articles.
Offcourse, I agree on this.

> > Please have a look at the design, I will soon set up it in the artwork
> > repo for openSUSE and if somebody can do that for me, it will be great
> > as I have bandwidth and speed limitations as of now. Patches are
> > always welcome :)
> > http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2011/7174228
>
> From GCI perspective I consider work done, as it used elements and colors that
> we use everywhere.
>
> From non GCI perspective it looks good if we accept that only offical mascot
> (no shape and color changes allowed) and green can be used anywhere in a
> design, which, in my humble opinion, is not the case.
Yes, other colors than green can be used too.
> (I guess it is a time to subscribe to git<something> and start uploading Geeko
> variations that are easy copy-paste element for future designs.)

However, I think you missed my point over here. What I mean to say is
have a small brochure or set of articles in a printed form and send it
to various companies or in corporate conferences where we can actually
show what openSUSE has been doing and ask for sponsorship. Giving
something that can be preserved instead of leaflets maybe a good way.
It may or may not work. Its just a thought byte.

> > Thanks a lot.
>
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> Regards, Rajko
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