Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Developer-specific brochure

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:
> Le 2013-06-28 14:57, Jean Weber a écrit :
>
> > Many people, including me and a lot of geeks I know, view "official
> > marketing documents" with suspicion, assuming they will likely be full of
> > hype and empty words, with little factual content of interest. For some
> > people, a simple fact sheet is much more likely to be read.
> >
> > --Jean
>
>
> Well, then, even more the reason to do both. No sense in promoting only to
> geeks who think this way and the other geeks who think otherwise. The devs
> that I know work in industry and education would rather read it through
> official docs/channels otherwise they view sheets with suspicion.
>
> Two worlds colliding or cooperating.


Well, an "official doc" need not be a trifold brochure, and a
portrait-oriented fact sheet can look just as official and
professional as any other marketing document -- or it can look like it
was "thrown together really quickly" as you put it. Likewise, a
brochure, however nice in appearance, may have been "thrown together
really quickly" -- as, indeed, was the one I did about the community.

That said, I agree that having both can be useful, assuming some one
has the time, interest, and energy to do the work.

BTW, my earlier comment may have left the impression that I intended
to just print a web page. What I meant was to take the info on that
page and create a handout. That's essentially what I did with the
community brochure, but fitting the info into the space available on a
trifold can be more difficult and time consuming. I was rather
surprised that everything fit so well with minimal tweaking necessary
for that one.

--Jean

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