[Live-demo] OSGeoLive 5.5 draft for background image

[Angelos Tzotsos]

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
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