[gentoo-pr] I'm back, TODO list

[gentoo-pr] I'm back, TODO list

[Sven Vermeulen]

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Hi all,

I'm back again and will start on getting everything on its feet. 

The first move I'll make is to publicise Simon's backgrounds on gentoo.org and
start writing a Presentation-HOWTO, which will inform the user how to create a
presentation based on certain guidelines. Those guidelines should be strict and
clear. Given those guidelines, the presentations have to be readable by all
users, easy to follow, easy to print, etc. I will do some research on the
possible guidelines and report those to the mailinglist. 

You know, all the things you dislike about certain presentations shouldn't be
allowed :)

At the same time I'll start asking input from other Gentoo projects about their
mission statement, development roadmap, etc. Issues that are important, not only
for the project members but also outsiders that want to know what is going on in
a project. This information needs to be made public on their project pages. 

Based on that information those projects should be able to create a presentation
about themselves ("Gentoo Cluster Project", "Gentoo Hardened Project", "Gentoo
Kernel Project", "Gentoo Documentation Project", ...) which should be made
available.

We might also want to start writing up a nice document on the upcoming 2004.0
release. Based on the information given from the releng team
(http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng) and input from all projects we should be
able to have a nice announce text ready. I'm not sure if Daniel wants to do the
honours here - if so, our job is to make sure that all relevant news sites are
informed about the release. 

Another thing I want to start thinking about is how we can leverage the
awareness to gain more coverage in both press and community. This includes
providing more in-depth information on current development projects in Gentoo 
(foremost in the GWN, but also in other sources). 

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen

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Re: [gentoo-pr] I'm back, TODO list

[Simon P. Hough]

Welcome back slacker;) <ducks damned fast> :)

The 2004 release any visuals associatted with it yet? logos etc????  an
identity for it???

A quick thought popped in my head of emptyness;) I hate presenations due to
them been so bloody static...
the only dynamic thing about them is the fading to the
next slide.... :)

Si
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Re: [gentoo-pr] I'm back, TODO list

[Sven Vermeulen]

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On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 05:31:22PM -0500, Simon P. Hough wrote:
> The 2004 release any visuals associatted with it yet? logos etc????  an
> identity for it???

Not to my knowledge. There is a new logo (one that doesn't mention "Linux"
explicitly)[1] but that is unrelated to the release.
 
> A quick thought popped in my head of emptyness;) I hate presenations due to
> them been so bloody static...
> the only dynamic thing about them is the fading to the
> next slide.... :)

We shouldn't focus on dynamical presentations too much. They tend to distract
the crowd easily and focus their attention towards the dynamical nature
instead of the contents of the presentation.

Also the software available to create dynamical presentations is scarce (OOo
is all that comes to mind) while I want to keep the options open to
developers what presentation tool they want to use (I personally like
MagicPoint).

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen

[1] http://beta-store.gentoo.org/images/gentoo-160x110.png

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[gentoo-pr] Gentoo Presentation (was: I'm back, TODO list)

[Corey Shields]

Below is a link to a presentation that a coworker and I gave last year.  
There are a couple of things that are obviously old, but if someone 
would want to use this or something similar, I would be more than happy 
to revise and update it, giving us a standard slideshow that could be 
used in conferences and such.  OpenOffice's shockwave export is quite 
nice as well, we could throw a shockwave version on the website.

http://ussg.iu.edu/~cshields/gentoo.sxi

Cheers!

-Corey

Sven Vermeulen wrote:

>On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 05:31:22PM -0500, Simon P. Hough wrote:
>  
>
>>The 2004 release any visuals associatted with it yet? logos etc????  an
>>identity for it???
>>    
>>
>
>Not to my knowledge. There is a new logo (one that doesn't mention "Linux"
>explicitly)[1] but that is unrelated to the release.
> 
>  
>
>>A quick thought popped in my head of emptyness;) I hate presenations due to
>>them been so bloody static...
>>the only dynamic thing about them is the fading to the
>>next slide.... :)
>>    
>>
>
>We shouldn't focus on dynamical presentations too much. They tend to distract
>the crowd easily and focus their attention towards the dynamical nature
>instead of the contents of the presentation.
>
>Also the software available to create dynamical presentations is scarce (OOo
>is all that comes to mind) while I want to keep the options open to
>developers what presentation tool they want to use (I personally like
>MagicPoint).
>
>Wkr,
>	Sven Vermeulen
>
>[1] http://beta-store.gentoo.org/images/gentoo-160x110.png
>
>  
>

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Re: [gentoo-pr] I'm back, TODO list

[Sven Vermeulen]

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On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 09:12:28AM +0100, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> The first move I'll make is to publicise Simon's backgrounds on gentoo.org and
> start writing a Presentation-HOWTO, which will inform the user how to create a
> presentation based on certain guidelines. Those guidelines should be strict and
> clear. Given those guidelines, the presentations have to be readable by all
> users, easy to follow, easy to print, etc. I will do some research on the
> possible guidelines and report those to the mailinglist. 

I've made a first draft on the Presentation-HOWTO. It's far from complete yet
(I haven't introduced the recommended structure for one) but should show you
how I believe the Presentation-HOWTO should be written.

Please take a look at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pr/docs/howto-presentation.xml
and tell me what you think (and be patient if it doesn't show up immediately,
I just committed it).

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen

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Re: [gentoo-pr] I'm back, TODO list

[Simon P. Hough]

An excellent how-to Sven,  At this point have nothing
to add... its direct without been condicending <typo> :)

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