[Live-demo] OSGeoLive 5.5 draft for background image

[Brian Hamlin]

Hi Angelos -

   I also have made a background image.  More choices !!

              gisvm/desktop-conf/osgeo_ldvd_55_1F.png

   best regards from California
     -Brian


On Feb 6, 2012, at 3:59 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Any chance we can get this background image for beta3 later today?
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Astrid Emde  
> <astrid.emde at wheregroup.com> wrote:
> Hello Hamish,
>
> Am 06.02.2012 03:38, schrieb Hamish:
>
> Astrid Emde wrote:
> ..
> and have a question about the background image and sleeves.
>
> We have the FOSSGIS conference in march and are going to use
> OSGeo-Live in the workshops and we will give the DVD to the
> participants of the conference.
> excellent, that's its purpose in life!
>
> People from the orga team created a desktop image and are
> going to create an image for the dvd cover too.
>
> I commited the first draft of the background image to the
> svn [2].
> note that the graphic there says "5.0" not "5.5"
> Thanks for the info. I did not notice that.
>
> My suggestion was to make the image a bit more pale to see
> the desktop links better.
> in the artwork/ dir you will see background.xcf.bz2.
>
> If you open that in GIMP and look at the layer list you'll see
> a white and black overlay layer. Make one or the other visible
> and adjust the opacity level to suit.  (GIMP can open .gz or .bz2
> directly without having to un-zip it first)
>
> n.b.: please run 'optipng -o5 filename.png' before uploading.
> For really huge .psd and .xcf image data (eg there's a 60mb image
> file in there) /please/ bzip2 them before upload, or consider
> another place (like flickr) and commit a text file with the link.
> huge binary files clog up the Subversion DB backups!
> ok, I try that out.
>
> And sorry for blowing up the svn with the image. I will keep an eye  
> on this in the future.
>
>
>
> We could take a version without the FOSSGIS logo and the
> building for the official version. What do you think?
> I'm mostly fine with whatever choice is made, as long as it is
> not too day-glow fluorescent and the left side is not too busy
> so the icons gets lost in the clutter.
>
>
> Cameron:
> One thing I'm going to strongly push for is that we have one
> generic background image for each release, rather create a
> different image for each conference.
> personally I feel that each conference committee should make
> it be whatever they like it to be, and a conference-themed
> backdrop is a very nice touch to remember it by. If they're
> paying the bill for the print run = their choice to do as they
> please, not ours..  (but if 3rd parties want something custom
> they'll have to contribute that work themselves of course)
>
> I think it would be highly odd for "FOSS4G 2012 Beijing" not
> to have its own backdrop image if they wanted one. Ideally
> the conference committee should supply it, and we should give
> them good lead time to decide on a design and prepare it (or
> have it prepared).
>
>
> This is because in the past, the effort required to change the
> background image, rebuild the ISO, then retest everything,
> turned out to be much more work that you would expect for such
> a small change.
> over-copying the one file:
>   /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/osgeo-desktop.png
> is a very simple task and does not require recertifying the
> entire build from scratch. AFAIU if nothing else has changed,
> the final ISO build either works or it doesn't. (with a suitable
> number of fingers and toes crossed for good luck)
>
> Would be nice to have our own background image for the FOSSGIS and  
> also would be great to use this image without the FOSSGIS stuff for  
> the official OSGeo-Live design. We could save work.
>
> Astrid
>
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> Angelos Tzotsos
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