[Live-demo] OSGeoLive 5.5 draft for background image

Mon Feb 6 15:04:22 EST 2012

Brian, thanks for that image.
I do like the simplicity of that image you have prepared, in that it 
won't clash with any desktop logos, and I'm mildly in favour of it over 
the suggestion from Astrid. (Although I think Astrid's image would work 
well for a DVD cover).

One minor comment, can we please change the text from:
"OSGEO LIVE DVD v5.5" to "OSGeo-Live 5.5"
Note:
* The ISO will be used on USBs as well as DVDs, hence drop the DVD
* The capitalisation is how we have been referring to OSGeo-Live in 
prior marketing

On 07/02/12 05:24, Brian Hamlin wrote:
>
> On Feb 6, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Bob Basques wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> About the background image, how about cycling through a set of 
>> images, say the previous LiveDVD images in order to end at the latest 
>> version.
>>
>> The process could be accomplished something like this:  
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S35wNiihDM
>>
>> I'm all about the user experience, so may not sit nicely with some 
>> more stoic personalities.
>>
>> bobb
>>
>>
>
>
> Hi Bob-
>
>   I think ... that the disk needs to convey a sense of stability, at 
> all opportunites
> Although there is nothing wrong with images moving at a constant pace..
> the images would have to relate to each other, and in a way that could 
> not alarm
> a nervous new user
>
>  I have added the desktops from the last couple of Live's to the repo 
> just now
> I think   gisvm.desktop-conf/  has some clutter, but I will leave it 
> to all to figure out what to do with that
>
>   best regards
>
> ==
> Brian Hamlin
> GeoCal
> OSGeo California Chapter
> 415-717-4462 cell
>
>
>
>
>>
>> >>> Brian Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:
>> 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
>> > Remote Sensing Laboratory
>> > National Technical University of Athens
>> > http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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