[Live-demo] OSGeoLive 5.5 draft for background image

Tue Feb 7 00:09:20 PST 2012

Hi all,

I would preper "OSGeo-Live 5.5" and agree with Cameron.

Astrid

On Mon, February 6, 2012 9:43 pm, Brian Hamlin wrote:
> 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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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Angelos Tzotsos
>>>>> Remote Sensing Laboratory
>>>>> National Technical University of Athens
>>>>> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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