Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Additional Platforms - 3rd Party Support Pamphlet

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 14:20 -0400, Marc Paré wrote:
> Hi Drew
>
> Le 2011-05-24 11:26, drew a écrit :
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Alright, I really thought this was a subject worth a flyer (brochure) so
> > took another pass and this time pushed it to the wiki, not close to done
> > - NEED lots of feedback form everyone..I think it should make sense as
> > to what the subject is..
> >
> > I've added the text, mostly unchanged, from Italo's blog post on the
> > timed release model - BTW.

Hi Marc, et al

Pushed new copies to the wiki just now

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibO-Pamphlet-platforms-support.pdf

 or for the ODF file...

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibO-Pamphlet-platforms-support.odt

> Nice! Here are my comments:
>
> Maybe in p.1 panel 1 "Operating System Distributions - User 
> Supported->To name but a few" we could add something like "Check your 
> distribution packager for native availability of LibreOffice" or 
> something like this. Or some statement that LibreOffice may be already 
> available through user's distro packager.

missed that one in this drop...

> BTW ... I would probably move p.1 panel 2 to p.2 panel 2. Reason: p.2 
> panel 1 lists the modules, so, it would seem to make sense to then have 
> the modules' description on the very next panel.

Likely correct, but I would go further - the entire flow is, IMO,
off...but didn't address that this go around.

> p.1 panel 1 ... bottom. Is there anyway to fade the motif a little more? 
> I find reading the text a little difficult to read.

Done

> p.1 panel 1 ... the titles are off-set on the left-hand from the regular 
> text but not the same on all of the pamphlet. I prefer the left-flush 
> look rather than off-setting the titles. I think it looks more 
> professional. Just my take.

Done - oddest thing, then the body text slid a little to the right...huh
*smile*

> BTW ... I am not sure if I like the dark black outline around the 
> letters in the titles. It looks like a try at 3-D but the effect is not 
> working. I like the look of a softer line such as the LibreOffice tm on 
> p.1 panel 3.

OK - 

> p. 2 panel 2 ... small correction: "LibreOffice is thez" <-- remove the 
> "z". Also the Libre in "LibreOffice" is larger than "office"

thanks

> p. 2 panel 2 ... I like the "LibreOffice uses a time based release 
> schedule" ... maybe shorten up the title to "LibreOffice Time Based 
> Release Schedule". I would also steer away from mentioning OOo. There is 
> no need to do this anymore. OOo is no longer a consideration and most 
> people will have had no idea that OOo was not on a time base release 
> schedule. Better, if we could provide a windows software example being 
> developed on a "time based release schedule" (I don't know if Firefox or 
> Chrome fit this ... I think Firefox does) -- KDE and Gnome really don't 
> mean anything to our Windows users which are the majority of our users.

re-worded for this..see the first three paragraphs in that section for
changes

//drew


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