So, update: A bunch of us have bemoaned the lack of quality design/layout for POSSE materials - we want a snazzy little bunch o' dead trees we can be proud to hand out to people at conferences and workshops! - and so Sebastian and I dropped Emily Dirsh, Fedora Design ninja, a line to see if a little freelancing to create open materials for this might be an option.
After talking with Emily: the gameplan is to first come up with a LaTeX stylesheet we can use to generate good-lookin' print materials, and then work on a LaTeX --> html stylesheet so the same markup can be loaded into a CMS (likely Drupal) to generate both web and print. Full logs at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teachingopensource/2011-02-28/posse_design.2011-02-28-20.06.html. A few notes: 1. All designs and materials will be released under an open content license (CC-BY-SA-X.X unless someone tells me why this is a terrible idea), made in open formats using open tools (LaTeX, Drupal, etc) and generally be free and open all the way through. This was important to us. 2. The first milestone (LaTeX --> pdf stylesheet) is slated to come in right before SIGCSE, so we can have samples out. For instance, imagine http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/IRC_and_wiki_introduction_exercise with screenshots and a layout as gorgeous as the pdf at the end of http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/inkscape-class-day-1/. 3. Emily has asked for sample markup with all the syntax we'll be using, so it looks like I'll be refreshing my LaTeX memory shortly. :) LyX has spoiled me - it's been a while since I cranked open a text editor and wrote TeX with my BARE HANDS *gruntgrunt* - but it shall be done. Favorite LaTeX tips and stylesheets, notes, etc. extremely welcome. (Between LaTeX and XML, we thought LaTeX might be a bit more palatable to tech academia, in case profs end up wanting to tweak the document sources.) --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
