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

Christoph, Drew, all,

2011/8/13 drew <drew@baseanswers.com>

> On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 00:48 +0200, Christoph Noack wrote:
> > Hi again!
> >
> > Am Dienstag, den 02.08.2011, 16:05 +0200 schrieb Christoph Noack:
> > [...]
> > > > I like it - are you going to bring in some of the secondary colors,
> as
> > > > you did in the earlier template then?
> > >
> > > I thought a little bit about that - since we've chosen the motif, I'm a
> > > bit hesitant and I think that the basic "green-ish/white-ish"
> appearance
> > > is better. On the other hand, I really like your idea that we need some
> > > colors to highlight stuff ... so how about adding those pre-colored
> > > boxes and graphic objects that people can easily copy-and-paste?
> >
> > Sooo, I finally managed to add some pre-defined gradients,
> > (hierarchical) styles and shapes - it should now be quite simple to put
> > together (at least) something. Please try it and report issues, thanks!
> >
> > So, as a summary, we have:
> >       * a rather decent template,
> >       * mimicking (I hope) the style Nik introduced,
> >       * making "clean" use of master pages,
> >       * showing their use in examples,
> >       * even for footer elements,
> >       * providing pre-defined drawing styles, shapes and gradients,
> >       * defining font alternatives (but works best with Liberation*)
> >       * and the size is still less than 700 KB
> >
> > Available here:
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Proposal_LibOConf2011_Template.odp
>
> Thats really is very nice, appearance and content, quite so.
>
> > [...]
> > > Drew, thanks a lot for the feedback and the encouraging words ... I'm
> > > sure that we'll, together, deliver something very good for our first
> > > conference. (Which needs to be awesome *g*).
> >
> > Still valid ;-)
> >
> > I think we are "template wise" well prepared ...
>
> One more update to come from me still - and very soon.
>
> @Kévin - you mentioned that you where learning about setting up
> templates. Christoph just put up a very good example of how to lay it
> out, please do if you are up to it, take the time to try and update your
> first submittal after looking at Chris' and update file on the wiki, I'd
> love to see it.
>
> Adios,
>
> //drew
I think that while we'll still are waiting for Kevin's updated template we
can call it a day and we may organize a jury of sorts next week?

Best,
Charles.

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