Thanks Brian, the deadline is today from my side so working on it as we speak.On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta@brandorr.com> wrote:I'd say until we hear back from Allison, please continue to flesh out
the brochure. We absolutely need the table in there, so I'd start with
that..
-Brian
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta@brandorr.com> wrote:
> Is everyone ok with this solution/compromise? (Allison?)
>
> If so, we need to tell the rest of sponsors-team (and eventually the
> rest of DC-team) of this compromise, and why it was made. I'm hoping
> that folks will understand, if we are open about the reasons and make
> sure this is a one time occurrence. (IE: The switch to FLOSS tools
> for other brochures, and such needs to happen.)
>
> -Brian
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Tammy Manning <mungojoed@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> If I take the PDF page by page into Inkscape it does work.
>>
>> Regards
>> Tammy
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Bernelle Verster <bernellev@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Brian
>>>
>>> Yes, we wanted to use scribus, and will likely do the final report there,
>>> but there wasn't time to get Tammy versed in scribus and get the brochure
>>> that we wanted. As you well know, shipping the brochure is the top priority.
>>>
>>> After that, we may well get a team (incl. Siri, cc'ed) to convert at least
>>> the layout to scribus for future use.
>>>
>>> Perhaps getting it into inkscape before the final pdf conversion is a good
>>> interim solution. Who can help with that, - Siri?
>>>
>>> B
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, September 14, 2015, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta@brandorr.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Bernelle,
>>>>
>>>> (adding wendar)
>>>>
>>>> One possible issue that I also noticed. It looks like Tammy used Adobe
>>>> Illustrator to make the brochure. Historically we've only used free
>>>> software tools that are available in Debian to generate the brochure.
>>>>
>>>> The metadata is freely available in the generated PDF, so anyone can
>>>> see that it was made using AI on a Mac, once we publish it. (Including
>>>> our sponsors).
>>>>
>>>> This hasn't come up before as I believe people have used Inkscape in
>>>> the past, so there isn't an official policy as far as I am aware.
>>>>
>>>> Being that most of the people contributing to Debian, and many of our
>>>> sponsors believe in supporting Free Software, I could see this as
>>>> being an issue.
>>>>
>>>> That said, in my mind if there is a tool in Debian that can work with
>>>> Illustrator files natively then we should be ok. (We should publish
>>>> the final PDF using that tool.) From a quick web search, it seems that
>>>> if you have the right set of packages installed, Inkscape can read in
>>>> AI files. (In the ideal world this would be done with Inkscape from
>>>> start to finish, but we are running out of time.)
>>>>
>>>> -Brian
>>>>
>>>> P.S. - I've looped in Allison to see if she has any thoughts, and
>>>> might be able to help on the technical end?
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta@brandorr.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > All in all, I think the look of the brochure is beyond fine. We just
>>>> > need to fill in the missing bits (like the table), and update the
>>>> > "placeholder" content to DC16. Most importantly, we need to ship the
>>>> > brochure.
>>>> >
>>>> > We should also make sure to share the "shrunk" version with the team
>>>> > using something other than dropbox.?
>>>> >
>>>> > Perhaps using git like
>>>> >
>>>> > http://media.debconf.org/dc15/fundraising/debconf15_sponsorship_brochure.pdf
>>>> > (Use the dc16 repo)?
>>>> >
>>>> > Generally speaking our brochures are very "functional", as they are
>>>> > assembled by developers, using FOSS tools.
>>>> >
>>>> > -Brian
>>>> >
>>>> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Bernelle Verster <bernellev@gmail.com>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >> Hi Tammy, Brian
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Can you tell me what the status of the brochure is please?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> The sizes of these files are clogging up my DropBox, when done, can
>>>> >> you please store only the source file and final print- and
>>>> >> web-friendly brochure on git (or dropbox if you get stuck).
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thanks
>>>> >> B
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> MUNGO JOE
>> Tammy 082 674 9764
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