Re: Marketing Materials in git

[Nelson Marques <07721 ipam pt>]

On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 18:26 -0600, Paul Cutler wrote:
> Hi Marketing Team!
>
> One of the topics I'd like to discuss in Saturday's team meeting is:
>
> Do we want to use GNOME's git repository for marketing materials?

 I would assume that having a repository for marketing materials is a
great achievement by itself. This is a great step to improve
communication and productivity.

 About git itself, it's a powerful tool, maybe too powerful for some of
us. It's easy to use, allows us to make a normal repository locally and
eventually for those who would like to use graphical tools, there are
available for GNOME.
 Eventually those who use Linux can setup a couple of easy crontab
scripts to run at one's flavour and keep the local repository mirror
updated.

 For me, it's a sane choice, though I would recon that maybe for most
people it's way too powerful.

 Someone mentioned google docs. That's a neat tool and it's quite good
aswell, though I would be considering Google's privacy policy which
isn't exactly better than Microsoft or other "evil" companies.

 As a user I would probably consider this the most important points:

 1. Easy of access
 2. Indexing
 3. Version control, which can be actually easier to control is there is
a maintainer for each. This would be easily achieved if the submitter
maintained their own docs (even if we use a note to keep track of
version).

  About formats, I would acknowledge that most people will be using
OpenOffice and other open software, so it really should be easy.

 
   Any option you guys decide is good for me. I do have internet
availability 24 hours per day, so I really don't care which system we
use.

   Someone spoke in another email about access and stuff. This is not
something that is marketing related, but OpenLDAP can actually provide a
good platform to maintain lots of different systems/platforms/appliances
for authentication, and it's quite stable and trustable, allows
replication and easy to install/manage.

   -- my 2 cents

   Nelson.

> What made me think of it is I was working on the FAQ for volunteers
> hosting a GNOME booth[1] that we started at the hackfest last Nov.  It
> looks pretty enough in the wiki, but it's really not ready for someone
> to just print and go with.
>
> There are a number of advantages and dis-advantages to using git that I
> can think of off the top of my head:
>
> Pro's:
>
> * Easier to keep marketing materials up to date (multiple editors,
> revision control)
> * Can have multiple copies (OpenOffice.org, PDF, etc)
> * Better formatting than the wiki
> * Personal opinion: easier than managing on the wiki / live.gnome.org
> (we have attachments in a few different places)
>
>
> Cons:
>
> * Might need to learn git  (though we can document how to do a git clone
> on the wiki)
> * Storing all marketing materials in one git repo could be a large
> download the first time as the user would get all materials, not just
> one
> * Volunteer would need to have git installed
>
> Thoughts?  I don't know if we need an answer right away, or if we'll
> have a quorum in the meeting Saturday, but I'd be curious to hear what
> people think.
>
> Paul
>
> [1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/ConferenceMaterial/BoothFAQ
>
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