Re: [libreoffice-design] A template for the LibreOffice Conference

On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 23:05 +0200, Christoph Noack wrote:
> Hi Charles, all!
>
> I wasn't able to follow the discussion very closely (being partly
> offline) due to some vacation (numerous family visits), so please (all)
> bear with me with regard to the template topic.
<snip>

Howdy, great I was hoping you would pop on with a template.

> I had a look at the conference templates suggested so far - and although
> some parts are simply beautiful, I got stuck a bit. Here are some things
> I consider to be issues:
>       * the templates are very large (5 ... 7 MB) --> many people who
>         cannot attend the conference will need to download the
>         presentations afterwards (non-broadband Internet)
>       * although highly detailed, the templates add a bit too much to
>         the motif --> last time I spoke with Nik he mentioned "lots of
>         white"
>       * High contrast should be a priority, due to the (typically) less
>         ideal data projectors ...
>       * I've never seen any presenter really care about the presentation
>         template ;-) To be serious again, I think its helpful to make
>         the (non-marketing people) template as simple as possible
>         (because other people will add what they like, and - in the end
>         - that's usually not what we like as well).

Cool - when I went to start I looked at the template you posted on the
wiki, way back when - rather expected you might pick that one back up
and run with it though, so went for the more Baroque No-1_Green. It's
huge and maybe I can trim it, which I'll put a few more days into, but
your right on the points and the more trimmed down model makes sense for
most uses. Anyway sometimes it's fun to be meat eater..*chuckle*, and
I'll make use of it somehow I suspect.

> So, I created (with the small laptop screen and an even smaller
> touchpad ... grmbl) another proposal which has been added to the
> proposal page:
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ConferenceTemplates
>
> Or directly:
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Proposal_LibOConf2011_Template.odp
>
> Still a draft, but should work already:
>       * based on some motif examples by Nik
>       * added overall asymmetry due to the conference logo design and
>         the non-tagline logo layout (some may remember the nice LibO
>         postcard idea created by Nik)
>       * the template contains four master page definitions (first slide,
>         section header, default slide, final slide) incl. footer
>         elements, styles definitions and details like font substitution
>
> Feedback (especially technical stuff) highly appreciated :-)

I like it - are you going to bring in some of the secondary colors, as
you did in the earlier template then?

> [...]
> > One word of advice:
> > - do use the existing conference logo and the full logo of LibreOffice

tsk tsk...

> Mmh, it seems that I've missed that requirement - I simply haven't read
> your mail in detail ;-) However, my gut feeling told me that the
> LibreOffice non-tagline logo is more appropriate here (presentations
> will contain personal statements) ... 

I don't think I agree - but separate email makes more sense, it's an
easy swap in or out, yes!

> but switching back to the TDF
> tagline logo is easy.
>
> > - follow our colours :-)
>
> ... and our overall branding language (at least what exists *g*).
>
> Mmh, maybe it would be nice to add some pre-defined boxes / graphical
> elements to let the authors work with ... idea for one of the next
> iterations.

//drew


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