[Marketing] marketing brochure

Mon Dec 2 18:55:33 PST 2019

Nice, I am not against Scribus and would you personally be willing to try
again.

 The last challenge is harder, I would like us as volunteers to be able to
hire a graphics designer to get stuff done faster for regional events and
projects.

Personally I think the website is most important, and printing things out
is hopefully going away. But it does make an impression, and that
impression helps break down “open source is not professional” hesitation
allowing us to reach more folks.

I am aware how silly it is we need to work so hard to give software away.
Still it makes people so happy it is worth a bit of our time.

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 12:45 AM adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Looks like inDesign may need to be part of the process, scribus cannot
> import the .indd files in marketing collateral [1], and the PDFs in print
> [2] don’t open with fonts as editable fonts (although the text can be
> replaced easily enough).
>
> Both Scribus and Inkscape have moved a long way since 2017. For my own two
> cents I find inDesign and illustrator at least as painful to use, and you
> have to then pay for them also ;) - so I haven’t used them in a very long
> time.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adam
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/marketing/collateral/brochure
> [2] https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/marketing/print
>
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 04:35, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <astrid_emde at osgeo.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Jody,
>>
>> great that you have more time now and great that you would like to work
>> on the flyer/brochure.
>>
>> It would make sense to update the brochure and make ist sustainable (do
>> not list sponsors) so we can print it and us that version for quite
>> while.
>> Although I would prefer a lighter weight version of the OSGeo brochure.
>>
>> It also is great if you can update some of the one-page flyer too.
>>
>> It looked like with some files scribus did not work, so I am fine if you
>> do it with inDesign. Maybe you leave the scribus files that work as they
>> are.
>>
>> You could choose the license that you think make sense.
>>
>> Astrid
>>
>> Am 02.12.2019 18:25 schrieb Jody Garnett:
>> > Brian I had a terrible couple of weeks before foss4g boston using
>> > scribus for the one page handouts. The teams produces results that
>> > were visually inconsistent and their work had to be redone so that all
>> > the output had the logos and so on in a consistent fashion.
>> >
>> > When you say Scribus get's good reviews ... can I ask from where? It
>> > certainly works but it honestly reminded me of desktop publishing
>> > solutions on an an Amiga 4000.
>> >
>> > We can go through some old email where Antia Graser worked really hard
>> > evaluating options and getting scribus to work.  We also had our
>> > graphics designer give it a go but it was too slow/frustrating given
>> > the timeframe.
>> >
>> > -
>> > https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/2017-September/003967.html
>> > [2]
>> >
>> > The other option that folks discussed in that thread was InkScape,
>> > however it was producing SVG output that could not be used in the
>> > browsers due to a difference in SVG standard support. Sadly at the
>> > time it was also producing PDF output inconsistently.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jody Garnett
>> >
>> > On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 at 16:07, Brian M Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi - Here in California/USA Adobe products are certainly very
>> >> popular, and I use them myself (old purchase). However, the FOSS
>> >> desktop publishing suite Scribus also gets good reviews. Is it
>> >> truly the only forward, to use inDesign for the brochures? The
>> >> fonts can be used in any case.
>> >>
>> >> cheers --Brian
>> >>
>> >> On 12/2/19 6:39 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I have been resisting taking on any more activities until my term
>> >>> as Director was up. With today's announcement I have some more
>> >>> capacity :)
>> >>>
>> >>> Astrid you mentioned wanted to update the osgeo brochure last
>> >>> year, and we did not have any members available with access to
>> >>> InDesign. The economics of using scribus did not work out for us
>> >>> (when we had access to a graphic designer it was better to use a
>> >>> WYIWYG tool to take advantage of their training).
>> >>>
>> >>> I would be willing to do the update, if the marketing committee
>> >>> was able to provide an InDesign license. In the past I purchased
>> >>> proprietary fonts when they were mandated by our logo design,
>> >>> however InDesign is a more expensive commitment.
>> >>>
>> >>> a) InDesign US$239.88/yr
>> >>> b) InDesign US$31.49/mo, only subscribe when needed?
>> >>>
>> >>> Another good approach is:
>> >>>
>> >>> c) Contact GetInteractive and set up a time and materials contract
>> >>>
>> >>> d) Ask on our mailing list if anyone else has access to InDesign
>> >>> and would be willing to do the work.
>> >>>
>> >>> Please reply with your preference, and any discussion. I feel we
>> >>> should make a motion this calendar year while we have marketing
>> >>> budget to work with.
>> >>>
>> >>> aside: I was able to make use of scribus for some of our one page
>> >>> handouts, porting content from a number of projects for a
>> >>> consistent appearance. It was a very frustrating learning curve,
>> >>> but I think I can safely update these now.
>> >>> --
>> >>> Jody Garnett
>> >>>
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>> >
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>> > [2]
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