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Posted to dev@community.apache.org by "Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org> on 2015/03/21 20:11:02 UTC
RE: ACNA Presentation Template - Crunch
I am having a problem.
Because the background image in the ACEU14 set is all JPEG with no way to take it apart, I looked at the others on SourceForge. They each have problem, especially with the name and location of the conference being bolted into the feather images as combined raster/JPEG images.
So I come back to the one from nick:
1. The feather and typography about the conference are beautiful to me.
2. It is designed for a dark background and that matters these days.
3. The name of the conference is a slight problem because "North America" cannot fit in the style used for "Europe".
THE KEY PROBLEM
There are three versions of the background, varying where the logo goes and some small details.
The problem is that the three versions are each single JPEG files. That is, the
logo, and other components of each background are not separable components.
WHAT I NEED
If Nick has original graphics in which these are separated, especially vector graphics except for the building and overall background image that I will replace anyhow, I can move ahead quickly.
If not I am seriously stuck. Morphing the jpegs directly strikes me as a Waiting to Fail. I would rather fail now, though I have no great Plan B. And I love Nick's feather image.
- Dennis
PS: "Hey, you know that simple change you wanted? It turned to be extremely simple and it is all done now." -- No software developer, ever.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org]
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 11:18
To: dev@community.apache.org
Cc: 'Melissa Warnkin'
Subject: RE: ACNA Presentation Template
I assume that is what I am working on. I am adapting ACEU 2014 for ACNA 2015 as easily as possible.
I assume that any IP issue is solved when the image is replaced.
I'm also assuming, based on silence, that this template was used and none had a problem with it.
If there is a particular place to upload it, I need to know about that too.
- Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: shaposhnik@gmail.com [mailto:shaposhnik@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman Shaposhnik
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 10:05
To: ComDev
Cc: Dennis Hamilton; Melissa Warnkin
Subject: Re: ACNA Presentation Template
Sorry for jumping into the discussion late, but is there a chance for
[semi-]official templates to be available for ACNA15?
Thanks,
Roman.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 19/03/2015 Rich Bowen wrote:
>>
>>
>> http://templates.openoffice.org/en/search?search_api_views_fulltext=apachecon&sort_by=created&sort_order=ASC
>> and also
>> http://people.apache.org/~nick/NickTemplateACEU14.odp
>> Also, see
>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-dev/201411.mbox/browser
>> for discussion of the differences between the two, and the fact that,
>> apparently, one of them is 14MB, and what to do about it.
>
>
> The unusable (14MB or so) one is neither of the above. It had been
> graciously provided by the Linux Foundation to speakers.
>
> Community-produced OpenOffice templates that were actually used at
> conferences are the following:
>
> ApacheCon Europe 2012
> http://templates.openoffice.org/en/template/apachecon-europe-2012-presentation
>
> ApacheCon NA 2013
> http://templates.openoffice.org/en/template/apachecon-north-amaerica-2013
>
> ApacheCon EU 2014
> http://people.apache.org/~nick/NickTemplateACEU14.odp
> (this ought to have been uploaded to the Templates site too, but apparently
> Linux Foundation never clarified the terms of usage for some images that
> Nick included into it)
>
> By the way, we happen to be speaking about a specific sub-sub-issue where
> the Linux Foundation didn't do a great job, but ApacheCon Budapest was
> amazing, and they surely have a lot of merit for it!
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
Re: ACNA Presentation Template - Crunch
Posted by Melissa Warnkin <mi...@yahoo.com.INVALID>.
Thank you so much for your assistance, Dennis!
Can you guys please respond to his questions?!
Thank you so much!
~M
From: Dennis E. Hamilton <de...@acm.org>
To: dev@community.apache.org
Cc: 'Melissa Warnkin' <mi...@yahoo.com>; 'Nick Burch' <ni...@apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 3:11 PM
Subject: RE: ACNA Presentation Template - Crunch
I am having a problem.
Because the background image in the ACEU14 set is all JPEG with no way to take it apart, I looked at the others on SourceForge. They each have problem, especially with the name and location of the conference being bolted into the feather images as combined raster/JPEG images.
So I come back to the one from nick:
1. The feather and typography about the conference are beautiful to me.
2. It is designed for a dark background and that matters these days.
3. The name of the conference is a slight problem because "North America" cannot fit in the style used for "Europe".
THE KEY PROBLEM
There are three versions of the background, varying where the logo goes and some small details.
The problem is that the three versions are each single JPEG files. That is, the
logo, and other components of each background are not separable components.
WHAT I NEED
If Nick has original graphics in which these are separated, especially vector graphics except for the building and overall background image that I will replace anyhow, I can move ahead quickly.
If not I am seriously stuck. Morphing the jpegs directly strikes me as a Waiting to Fail. I would rather fail now, though I have no great Plan B. And I love Nick's feather image.
- Dennis
PS: "Hey, you know that simple change you wanted? It turned to be extremely simple and it is all done now." -- No software developer, ever.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org]
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 11:18
To: dev@community.apache.org
Cc: 'Melissa Warnkin'
Subject: RE: ACNA Presentation Template
I assume that is what I am working on. I am adapting ACEU 2014 for ACNA 2015 as easily as possible.
I assume that any IP issue is solved when the image is replaced.
I'm also assuming, based on silence, that this template was used and none had a problem with it.
If there is a particular place to upload it, I need to know about that too.
- Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: shaposhnik@gmail.com [mailto:shaposhnik@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman Shaposhnik
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 10:05
To: ComDev
Cc: Dennis Hamilton; Melissa Warnkin
Subject: Re: ACNA Presentation Template
Sorry for jumping into the discussion late, but is there a chance for
[semi-]official templates to be available for ACNA15?
Thanks,
Roman.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 19/03/2015 Rich Bowen wrote:
>>
>>
>> http://templates.openoffice.org/en/search?search_api_views_fulltext=apachecon&sort_by=created&sort_order=ASC
>> and also
>> http://people.apache.org/~nick/NickTemplateACEU14.odp
>> Also, see
>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-dev/201411.mbox/browser
>> for discussion of the differences between the two, and the fact that,
>> apparently, one of them is 14MB, and what to do about it.
>
>
> The unusable (14MB or so) one is neither of the above. It had been
> graciously provided by the Linux Foundation to speakers.
>
> Community-produced OpenOffice templates that were actually used at
> conferences are the following:
>
> ApacheCon Europe 2012
> http://templates.openoffice.org/en/template/apachecon-europe-2012-presentation
>
> ApacheCon NA 2013
> http://templates.openoffice.org/en/template/apachecon-north-amaerica-2013
>
> ApacheCon EU 2014
> http://people.apache.org/~nick/NickTemplateACEU14.odp
> (this ought to have been uploaded to the Templates site too, but apparently
> Linux Foundation never clarified the terms of usage for some images that
> Nick included into it)
>
> By the way, we happen to be speaking about a specific sub-sub-issue where
> the Linux Foundation didn't do a great job, but ApacheCon Budapest was
> amazing, and they surely have a lot of merit for it!
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
RE: ACNA Presentation Template - Crunch
Posted by "Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>.
Thanks Nick,
I received the files from you.
I don't know about backgrounds. It may end up being plain, or extra credit once I have anything workable with the essential parts.
I notice that the ACNA14 slides have a Linux Foundation credit on them. I would think this is appropriate for ACNA15 also. Is that correct?
Thanks for the other links. That is very helpful.
- Dennis
PS: Having thoughts about developer dogfood and how AOO is a stranger in a strange land.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Burch [mailto:nick@apache.org]
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 06:01
To: Dennis E. Hamilton
Cc: dev@community.apache.org; 'Melissa Warnkin'
Subject: RE: ACNA Presentation Template - Crunch
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> I have extracted the three background images from the ACEU14
> presentation. They are not possible to morph. They are JPEGs and there
> is no reasonable way to extract pieces and morph the logo and conference
> name.
I'll send you the images I used offline. They were mostly just taken from
the ApacheCon website, with a few edits
> But I will have to do it from scratch. What I need very badly, if there
> are not already drawing components that were used for ACEU14, is the
> feather. Just the feather. Preferably black-and-white and a resizable
> graphic at that.
The SVG of the feather is available from the foundation site:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/
The ApacheCon North America in white with the feather outline, like the
Europe one, is available from the LF ApacheCon site:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/apachecon_na_logo_w.png
Other event logos in various formats, in case they help with ideas /
inspiration / structure / etc can be found at:
http://events.apache.org/organize/logos/
Sadly the LF haven't done us a nice two-colour image of the skyline this
time, nor the funky Denver trees, so it'll be more work...
Nick
RE: ACNA Presentation Template - Crunch
Posted by Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org>.
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> I have extracted the three background images from the ACEU14
> presentation. They are not possible to morph. They are JPEGs and there
> is no reasonable way to extract pieces and morph the logo and conference
> name.
I'll send you the images I used offline. They were mostly just taken from
the ApacheCon website, with a few edits
> But I will have to do it from scratch. What I need very badly, if there
> are not already drawing components that were used for ACEU14, is the
> feather. Just the feather. Preferably black-and-white and a resizable
> graphic at that.
The SVG of the feather is available from the foundation site:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/
The ApacheCon North America in white with the feather outline, like the
Europe one, is available from the LF ApacheCon site:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/apachecon_na_logo_w.png
Other event logos in various formats, in case they help with ideas /
inspiration / structure / etc can be found at:
http://events.apache.org/organize/logos/
Sadly the LF haven't done us a nice two-colour image of the skyline this
time, nor the funky Denver trees, so it'll be more work...
Nick
RE: ACNA Presentation Template - Crunch
Posted by "Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>.
I have extracted the three background images from the ACEU14 presentation. They are not possible to morph. They are JPEGs and there is no reasonable way to extract pieces and morph the logo and conference name.
My plan is to produce three new ones of these and slide them into the ODP in place of the current ones.
But I will have to do it from scratch. What I need very badly, if there are not already drawing components that were used for ACEU14, is the feather. Just the feather. Preferably black-and-white and a resizable graphic at that.
I need it in 72 hours (that's 2015-03-25T01:44Z) I am simply going to default on this.
- Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org]
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 12:11
To: dev@community.apache.org
Cc: 'Melissa Warnkin'; 'Nick Burch'
Subject: RE: ACNA Presentation Template - Crunch
[ ... ]
WHAT I NEED
If Nick has original graphics in which these are separated, especially vector graphics except for the building and overall background image that I will replace anyhow, I can move ahead quickly.
If not I am seriously stuck. Morphing the jpegs directly strikes me as a Waiting to Fail. I would rather fail now, though I have no great Plan B. And I love Nick's feather image.
- Dennis
PS: "Hey, you know that simple change you wanted? It turned to be extremely simple and it is all done now." -- No software developer, ever.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org]
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 11:18
To: dev@community.apache.org
Cc: 'Melissa Warnkin'
Subject: RE: ACNA Presentation Template
I assume that is what I am working on. I am adapting ACEU 2014 for ACNA 2015 as easily as possible.
I assume that any IP issue is solved when the image is replaced.
I'm also assuming, based on silence, that this template was used and none had a problem with it.
If there is a particular place to upload it, I need to know about that too.
- Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: shaposhnik@gmail.com [mailto:shaposhnik@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman Shaposhnik
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 10:05
To: ComDev
Cc: Dennis Hamilton; Melissa Warnkin
Subject: Re: ACNA Presentation Template
Sorry for jumping into the discussion late, but is there a chance for
[semi-]official templates to be available for ACNA15?
Thanks,
Roman.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 19/03/2015 Rich Bowen wrote:
>>
>>
>> http://templates.openoffice.org/en/search?search_api_views_fulltext=apachecon&sort_by=created&sort_order=ASC
>> and also
>> http://people.apache.org/~nick/NickTemplateACEU14.odp
>> Also, see
>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-dev/201411.mbox/browser
>> for discussion of the differences between the two, and the fact that,
>> apparently, one of them is 14MB, and what to do about it.
>
>
> The unusable (14MB or so) one is neither of the above. It had been
> graciously provided by the Linux Foundation to speakers.
>
> Community-produced OpenOffice templates that were actually used at
> conferences are the following:
>
> ApacheCon Europe 2012
> http://templates.openoffice.org/en/template/apachecon-europe-2012-presentation
>
> ApacheCon NA 2013
> http://templates.openoffice.org/en/template/apachecon-north-amaerica-2013
>
> ApacheCon EU 2014
> http://people.apache.org/~nick/NickTemplateACEU14.odp
> (this ought to have been uploaded to the Templates site too, but apparently
> Linux Foundation never clarified the terms of usage for some images that
> Nick included into it)
>
> By the way, we happen to be speaking about a specific sub-sub-issue where
> the Linux Foundation didn't do a great job, but ApacheCon Budapest was
> amazing, and they surely have a lot of merit for it!
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.