Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Some thoughts...

- Note that the text on the back of the brochure is old text from the
  Friends of GNOME page:

    http://www.gnome.org/friends/about-foundation.html

  The text in the above website has been updated and contains
  improvements that should also be reflected in the brochure.  For
  example, the Google Summer of Code blurb reads as follows:

    Participating in the Google Summer of Code program in which 30
    students and mentors participated. They worked on improving the
    photo-management application F-Spot, improving the integrated
    development environment Anjuta, improving the webcam application
    Cheese, and adding LLMNR support to Avahi. See a complete list of

    projects.

  This text is better because it just explains the functionality and
  does not compare GNOME products to Apple or Microsoft products.
  Actually most of the bullets have been improved on the above
  website.  I'd suggest updating all the text to the latest copy.

- The inside says "See the projects.gnome.org website for the entire
  list".  I think URL's are more clear if you say
  "http://projects.gnome.org";

- In the "GNOME Foundation" section it says "we may sponsor
  GNOME-related technical conferences".  I think we can safely
  remove the word "may" here.  There hasn't been a year where we
  have not done this.

- The text says "The Foundation has over 400 members, all contributors
  to GNOME, who vote once a year".

  Actually we now vote every 18 months

- The bottom of the 2nd inside page says "To follow up, please contact".
  I think we should also provide a URL to http://foundation.gnome.org/

  Would probably also be good to give the foundation.gnome.org website
  a bit of a facelift.

Brian


Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> 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
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