[Live-demo] OSGeoLive 5.5 draft for background image

Mon Feb 6 10:24:28 PST 2012

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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