First of all I hope this message would not be off-topic, due it is intended to the promotion of the whole Linux landscape and not only about Gnome.
All around the world (and particulary in Italy, from where I wrote) a lot of Linux Users Groups daily act to organize courses, conferences, InstallParty and many other events to explain freesoftware to the people and provide assistance on technical stuffs. The main problem is that LUGs are generally composed by high technically skilled guys but bad artists, so most of those events are promoted by very low-quality flyers which often miss to catch attention of the target public, and many efforts fail to collect a decent audience due lack of communication. I have recently experienced this phenomenon in occasion of the "Linux Day" (annual country-wide event in which each LUG in Italy provides his own schedule on the same day, this year was on October, 24: http://www.linuxday.it ), when many groups were unable to spread to the public more than an ugly blank sheet with some text and a Tux as only decoration. Starting from this, the purpose is to involve as many people as possible with artistic eye to produce a set of nice and good-looking templates for flyers, customizable by LUGs, share them and made it easy to promote any kind of Linux moment with a decent presentation. No constraints about layout, colors, images or other graphic elements, the best would be to obtain SVG source files with fields to fill with custom text (for location, date, schedule...), perhaps dedicated to specific genre of contents (some to promote InstallParties, some to promote conferences and so on). The project is still in evaluation phase, so any kind of comment, suggestion, and reference to other source of collaborative artists are welcome. What do you think about this? -- Roberto -MadBob- Guido http://claimid.com/madbob _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list
