Re: [libreoffice-marketing] is there a file for this poster?

On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 15:16 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions wrote:
> I was thinking that since it was a LO poster for a LO table "fest", it 
> would be nice if the file used to create the poster would be shared.
>
> I have no trouble creating a poster for things I am dealing with, but 
> there are some North American events coming soon, with April 28-29 being 
> the LinuxFest Northwest 2012.  I bet they could use as many marketing 
> poster ideas as we can provide them.
>
> I know that locally the 6 foot by 30 inch "LibreOffice" banner cost 
> about $75, and the one shown in the linked photo would be about half 
> that [hopefully].
>
> I know the price of that 6 foot banner since I am working on a design 
> for a local organization and we were quoted that if we provide the PDF file.
>
> It would be nice to share the files [in standard formats] so every 
> region that has these shows where LO could get a booth/table, can have 
> similar materials, posters, banners, etc., for their use.
>
> I have asked on the website list about how to get a 3.4.5 DVD label 
> design shown there.  I think if the designers of the labels, brochures, 
> fliers, posters, banners, and other marketing items shared their 
> creations, we would have a large marketing resource.
>
> I would really like to see a tri-fold brochure, or flier, that was 
> geared towards the school and university students.  Get them while they 
> are young.  Get schools to look at LO as an alternative to buying MSO 
> for all their systems.  Give the parents an option instead of buying MSO 
> for their kid's laptops when they send them on to the colleges and 
> universities.

Most schools, locally, are switching off MSO - and onto Google Docs
(Apps really).

> The more marketing materials we have to access locally, the better we 
> can be.

Yes - only speaking for myself, I've been falling down on that.

> Yes Drew,
> I most likely could make a version of the poster in the photo, if I 
> could read the text and use some translation package to see what it 
> saids, but it would be better to just download it from our marketing pages.

I agree.

Well, I sent a translation along - and I plan to draft a poster
also...will send email when that is on the wiki.

//drew

> On 03/14/2012 02:27 PM, drew jensen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 10:24 -0400, Tim Lungstrom wrote:
> > > Is there any place where we could get copy of this type of poster, shown
> > > in the image listed in the below link?
> > Likely not - well, of course there could be, but likely not that you
> > will ever get your hands on.
> >
> > If you really like though, it could be reproduced in English and using
> > FOSS tools, in an standard format, and shared with the full community.
> >
> > Shall we?
> >
> > //drew
> >
> > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/thumb/1/11/Grazer_Linuxtage_2011_001.jpg/400px-Grazer_Linuxtage_2011_001.jpg
> > >
> > > I was thinking that it looks great, and would be nice to have something
> > > like this for the English "fests" coming up this year.
> > >
> > > Having it in English, instead of needing to take the SVG file and
> > > editing it, would be helpful.
> > >
> > > We need as many marketing posters and "stuff" as possible for the North
> > > American shows ands fests.



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