[Showme-devel] ShowMeBox poster at DebConf16

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Siri Reiter (2016-06-20 11:07:57)
> On 06/13/2016 09:35 PM, Bernelle Verster wrote:
>> As Graham said, while all the info about the ShowMeBox is on the 
>> Debian wiki, it's hard to see what it is exactly that we are doing, 
>> and why. Would it be possible to design a poster, something simple 
>> that can be used for multiple things in future, possibly, to display 
>> at DebConf16?
>
> I would like to do a poster with a "generic" illustration, then text 
> can be changed for the occasion.
> 
> I imagine a small box with a chaos of graphs floating, spewing or 
> exploding out of it.

Nice!


> I have no experience with graphs like I see here: 
> https://pub.beakernotebook.com/publications/featured.
> 
> I therefore have to use images from the online documentation for 
> Beaker Notebook. Imagining the licensing will allow us to use them, 
> they would still be the same graphs that have been circulating for a 
> while, and anyone interested will find them first thing, when diving 
> in. Thats' not cool.
> 
> Any suggestions to how to get fresh examples?
> 
> Since Showmebox is not tied to Beaker Notebook, there might be other 
> examples accessible out there. Any pointers?
> 
> The most convenient format to work with would be svg - vector 
> graphics.
> 
> Meanwhile/ worst case I'll use what I can find online, and we'll live 
> with the downsides. It's going to look great anyway.

I recommend to skip research for ideal imagary at first - work on the 
composition, and hope others do (at least the grunt work of) checking 
licensing and/or locating/producing alternative material - in parallel.

SVG is best: Try make a complex composition, where you embed external 
images (bitmapped or vector-based) and use Inkscape plugins to skew and 
twist them.

Idea is that you can that way (if it works reliably, all the way to 
print) maintain a layout where the underlying components (image grabs 
etc.) can be easily replaced later, when we get better material.


 - Jonas

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