6:17 a.m.
Hey,
A week or so ago we talked on IRC about creating an "overview"
document of all the new features in Fedora...kind of like a leaflet
sort of thing?
Has there been any progress on this? If not, I might try and do a bit
this afternoon on it...
Best wishes,
Jon
6:23 a.m.
Jonathan Roberts wrote:
Hey,
A week or so ago we talked on IRC about creating an "overview"
document of all the new features in Fedora...kind of like a leaflet
sort of thing?
Has there been any progress on this? If not, I might try and do a bit
this afternoon on it...
I said I would but I haven't done it yet. If you are going to do, do it
in the wiki so that I and others interested can participate.
Rahul
8:11 a.m.
On 22/10/2007, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> Hey,
>
> A week or so ago we talked on IRC about creating an "overview"
> document of all the new features in Fedora...kind of like a leaflet
> sort of thing?
>
> Has there been any progress on this? If not, I might try and do a bit
> this afternoon on it...
I said I would but I haven't done it yet. If you are going to do, do it
in the wiki so that I and others interested can participate.
Sure :D
Jon
9:38 a.m.
Hey again,
So I've started a bit of work on this, just rough I guess. For people
who are interested, it's going up in my personal wiki area (unless
somebody knows of a better location for drafting it):
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JonathanRoberts/F8Overview
The PulseAudio bit is more or less what I had in mind, except we could
include screenshots/screencasts where relevant too. Anything much
longer is going to be a lot of work I think.
What do people think about trying to beautify it a bit too? Rather
than just having a plain wiki page? Scribus PDF as an option for
reading it? Would art team people be interested in this?
Jon
8:40 a.m.
Jonathan Roberts wrote:
What do people think about trying to beautify it a bit too? Rather
than just having a plain wiki page? Scribus PDF as an option for
reading it? Would art team people be interested in this?
PDF is definitely needed for wider redistribution. Anyone here have any
experience with Scribus or other software?
Rahul
9:47 a.m.
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:10:43 +0630
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
PDF is definitely needed for wider redistribution. Anyone here have
any experience with Scribus or other software?
Why does it have to be Scribus? Any content that can be printed can be
turned into a PDF.
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9:02 a.m.
jkeating wrote:
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:10:43 +0630
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> PDF is definitely needed for wider redistribution. Anyone here have
> any experience with Scribus or other software?
Why does it have to be Scribus? Any content that can be printed can be
turned into a PDF.
Good publishing software like Scribus can be used to create very
beautiful and professional looking PDF files (in the hands of people
experienced with it) compared to pushing in a wiki page into PDF format.
Not a must but can certainly make a big difference.
Rahul
1:45 p.m.
Hi all,
I've put up a few bits and pieces for the overviews so far.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JonathanRoberts/F8Overview
What do people think? Is the text appropriate/long enough/too
long/giving correct information!? Would be good to get some feedback
before I go on too much further so I know I'm heading along the right
tracks!
Best wishes,
Jon
12:58 p.m.
Jonathan Roberts wrote:
Hi all,
I've put up a few bits and pieces for the overviews so far.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JonathanRoberts/F8Overview
What do people think? Is the text appropriate/long enough/too
long/giving correct information!? Would be good to get some feedback
before I go on too much further so I know I'm heading along the right
tracks!
I think we need to change the track a bit. Use very simple language.
Less technical. Talk about benefits before features, fill them with
screenshots and screencasts, Some comparisons.
http://news.opensuse.org/?p=341
http://news.opensuse.org/?p=400
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/710tour
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Tour
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Notes
Rahul
1:45 p.m.
I should have added:
Pictures/Links etc are still needed.
Jon
On 23/10/2007, Jonathan Roberts <jonathan.roberts.uk(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I've put up a few bits and pieces for the overviews so far.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JonathanRoberts/F8Overview
What do people think? Is the text appropriate/long enough/too
long/giving correct information!? Would be good to get some feedback
before I go on too much further so I know I'm heading along the right
tracks!
Best wishes,
Jon
2:33 p.m.
Is this the page that we want the scribus/whatever.layout.editor/etc pdf
to feature? I'm still waiting on a few more details about the desired
pdf before I start doing anything with it. Page sizes would be nice too.
Jonathan Roberts wrote:
I should have added:
Pictures/Links etc are still needed.
Jon
On 23/10/2007, Jonathan Roberts <jonathan.roberts.uk(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've put up a few bits and pieces for the overviews so far.
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JonathanRoberts/F8Overview
>
> What do people think? Is the text appropriate/long enough/too
> long/giving correct information!? Would be good to get some feedback
> before I go on too much further so I know I'm heading along the right
> tracks!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jon
>
>
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1:37 p.m.
Michael Beckwith wrote:
Is this the page that we want the scribus/whatever.layout.editor/etc
pdf
to feature? I'm still waiting on a few more details about the desired
pdf before I start doing anything with it. Page sizes would be nice too.
Yes this is the page but wait for it while we gather more content. Then
we can put in a note here that it is ready to be converted to PDF and
you can work your magic.
If you have any sample layouts or anything, let us know.
Rahul
9:53 a.m.
On 22/10/2007, jkeating <jkeating(a)j2solutions.net> wrote:
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:10:43 +0630
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> PDF is definitely needed for wider redistribution. Anyone here have
> any experience with Scribus or other software?
Why does it have to be Scribus? Any content that can be printed can be
turned into a PDF.
It doesn't necessarily need to be Scribus, but Scribus is perhaps the
most flexible tool for creating attractively laid out documents (DTP
etc)...but whatever anybody wants to work in is cool with me :D
Jon
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9:56 a.m.
I have layout experience from 2 semesters of university newspaper. Just
get me the bodies of text and what images you want used and I can throw
some stuff together. Any images and official titles for the top of the
first page that you want would be greatly appreciated as well, but I can
create some too if I need to.
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>
> What do people think about trying to beautify it a bit too? Rather
> than just having a plain wiki page? Scribus PDF as an option for
> reading it? Would art team people be interested in this?
PDF is definitely needed for wider redistribution. Anyone here have
any experience with Scribus or other software?
Rahul
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10:02 a.m.
Jonathan Roberts wrote:
What do people think about trying to beautify it a bit too? Rather
than just having a plain wiki page? Scribus PDF as an option for
reading it? Would art team people be interested in this?
You can make it look like the old GNOME release tours, simple and
beautiful: http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-12/
Or like the OS X features preview (a bit to crowded and hard to read due
to small fonts): http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html
Or maybe something in-between.
Those two look good (IMO) in HTML format so producing a PDF from that
HTML is a good solution.
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7:31 a.m.
Jonathan Roberts wrote:
Hey again,
So I've started a bit of work on this, just rough I guess. For people
who are interested, it's going up in my personal wiki area (unless
somebody knows of a better location for drafting it):
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JonathanRoberts/F8Overview
The PulseAudio bit is more or less what I had in mind, except we could
include screenshots/screencasts where relevant too. Anything much
longer is going to be a lot of work I think.
To explain the kind of content I think we should use, I am writing a
different summary at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ReleaseSummary
Rahul
8:37 a.m.
To explain the kind of content I think we should use, I am writing a
different summary at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ReleaseSummary
I'm happy to go with text like that...I should be able to help out
again tomorrow -
Thanks Rahul,
Jon
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Yes! That focus looks like it's going to be very helpful to the
understanding of people curious about F8 but who are coming to Fedora
from the outside.
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On Oct 24, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> Hey again,
> So I've started a bit of work on this, just rough I guess. For people
> who are interested, it's going up in my personal wiki area (unless
> somebody knows of a better location for drafting it):
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JonathanRoberts/F8Overview
> The PulseAudio bit is more or less what I had in mind, except we
> could
> include screenshots/screencasts where relevant too. Anything much
> longer is going to be a lot of work I think.
To explain the kind of content I think we should use, I am writing
a different summary at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ReleaseSummary
Rahul
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