Hi Tony, On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 11:11:00AM -0800, tony mancill wrote: > (resend with the correct debconf-team address) Sorry, my mistake. > On 11/03/2013 03:05 AM, Raphaël Walther wrote: [...] > > 2) I am concerned about these details at the end: > > > > "DebConf has evolved from humble beginnings in Bordeaux, > > France in 2000 with 30 attendees and virtually no budget, to recent years where we accommodate > > an average of 250 attendees, with a budget of around $230,000 USD." > > > > My question is where this 250 come from ? Is it the average of attendance of last few years ? > > > > My second question is where this USD 230'000 come from ? > > > > I have just check it was also in the brochure of DC13. For me these number are > > wrong and difficult to understand. > > I didn't make up the numbers; as you said, they were in the DC13 > brochure. My assumption is that they are averages over "recent years." > If someone can provide me information about provenance, I'll update the > comments in the document source. If someone has another set of numbers, > please provide them, but be aware that fund-raising team is expecting > this document to be ready, so time is of the essence. Otherwise, I > think we should assume that they are not wildly inaccurate or > mis-representative, and use them. I guess, they give a good idea of what the conference is in term of size in general. > > 3) The brochure size is 1.5 Mo. Would it be possible to make it lighter ? Last > > year we had a 0.7 Mo brochure. > > > > What do you think ? > > My initial attempts with qpdf, pdftk, and the usual ghostscript > transformations resulted in either the same size or larger files. The > DC13_Group_Picture is by far the heaviest component, so I have reduced > the resolution to a point where it still looks okay, and the resulting > PDF is now about 600kB. I don't really see the point in spending a lot > of time to decrease the size of the brochure further unless there is a > technical problem. > > One more change in this version - I made the name of the magazine more > generic as Brian Gupta had suggested on Oct 29. > > Old text: > > Logo in full-page ``Thank you!'' advertisement in Linux Magazine, > worldwide > > New text: > > Logo in full-page ``Thank you!'' advertisement in a well-known Linux > periodical > > Thank you, > tony > > Updated version: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debconf-data/dc14/sponsorship-brochure/brochure.en.pdf?view=log Unless someone has other comments on the brochure I plan to send it to our DC13 sponsors probably on Tuesday. Any other comment on the brochure before we start sending it ? Cheers, Raphaël
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