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
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: 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
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