[Live-demo] OSGeoLive 5.5 draft for background image

Mon Feb 6 13:43:28 PST 2012

the ALL CAPS style is because it it a headline
(if you look at billboards and other large type applications, you may  
notice that they rarely use mixed case or lower case)
I can make the change to drop the DVD part now

I am mildly against changing the case of the type for that reason

   -Brian

On Feb 6, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> 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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>>> >
>>> >
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>>> > Remote Sensing Laboratory
>>> > National Technical University of Athens
>>> > http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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