Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:35 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
>   
> > Stormy Peters wrote:
> >     
> > > Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below 
> > > unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it.
> > >       
> > Kalle Persson and myself spent some time on this last night and here is 
> > a sketch.
> > Front and back: 
> > http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-outside.png
> > Inside: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-inside.png
> >
> > Source: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-sketch.svg
> >
> > This would be printable in only two colors (black+green), so it would be 
> > relatively cheap to print.
> > Some text blocks ended up a bit small in size, and some parts felt a bit 
> > massive. Any darlings we can kill?
> > Let me know if you have any feedback. I will go ahead and lay this out 
> > in Scribus now.
> >     
>
> Might be different when it's actually on paper (things usually
> are), but I find the white text on green background on the back
> cover incredibly hard to read.  It's one thing to use this for
> headings and eye-catchers, but it's just not enough contrast
> for extended reading.
>   
Good point. I'll change it to black.
It will also improve readability to cut down on the number of bullets 
and/or the amount of text in each bullet. That way we can grow the text 
size.
Is there any of the points under 2009 that are more important than the 
others?
"Ensure a free and secure desktop environment for everyone." is kind of 
already mentioned inside the folder under the header GNOME Foundation 
already (and under GNOME as well).
- Andreas