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[Francesco Ugolini]

Hi all. My names, as many of us know, is Francesco Ugolini, i'm a  
Fedora ambassador.
I think that Fedora is a great system and many people have to know  
this. It's a mission, i know but we have to broke all prejudice that  
many people (bad people) have said of this system.

I've done some banner ( http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/ 
Banners ) that everybody can put in their site or blog to make fedora  
more visible to all. Those are a beginning.

Thanks

Francesco Ugolini

[Clair]

On Sunday 12 March 2006 21:45, Francesco Ugolini wrote:
> i know but we have to broke all prejudice that
>  many people (bad people) have said of this system. 
That's a fine way of getting them on our side! :)


Clair

[Francesco Ugolini]

Yes ;)

Il giorno 12/mar/06, alle ore 22:56, Clair ha scritto:

>  On Sunday 12 March 2006 21:45, Francesco Ugolini wrote:
> > i know but we have to broke all prejudice that
> > many people (bad people) have said of this system.
>
>  That's a fine way of getting them on our side! :)
>
>
>  Clair
>
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[Michael Larabel]

Francesco,

Are there any intentions of creating 125 x 125 or 468 x 60 px (which are 
pretty much standard sizes when it comes to advertising) Fedora banners?

Thanks.

Michael Larabel

Francesco Ugolini wrote:

>  Hi all. My names, as many of us know, is Francesco Ugolini, i'm a
>
>  Fedora ambassador.
>  I think that Fedora is a great system and many people have to know 
>  this. It's a mission, i know but we have to broke all prejudice that 
>  many people (bad people) have said of this system.
>
>  I've done some banner ( http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/ 
>  Banners ) that everybody can put in their site or blog to make fedora 
>  more visible to all. Those are a beginning.
>
>  Thanks
>
>  Francesco Ugolini
>
>  -- 
>  Fedora-marketing-list mailing list
>  Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com
>  https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
>
>
>

[Francesco Ugolini]

Yes, the current banner are to big and aggressive to be placed in  
every site or blog, i will make them in a few days (before thursday).

Best regards

Francesco Ugolini


Il giorno 12/mar/06, alle ore 22:57, Michael Larabel ha scritto:

>  Francesco,
>
>  Are there any intentions of creating 125 x 125 or 468 x 60 px  
>  (which are pretty much standard sizes when it comes to advertising)  
>  Fedora banners?
>
>  Thanks.
>
>  Michael Larabel
>
>  Francesco Ugolini wrote:
>
> > Hi all. My names, as many of us know, is Francesco Ugolini, i'm a  
> > Fedora ambassador.
> > I think that Fedora is a great system and many people have to know  
> > this. It's a mission, i know but we have to broke all prejudice  
> > that many people (bad people) have said of this system.
> >
> > I've done some banner ( http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/ 
> > Marketing/ Banners ) that everybody can put in their site or blog  
> > to make fedora more visible to all. Those are a beginning.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Francesco Ugolini
> >
> > -- 
> > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list
> > Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com
> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
> >
> >
> >
>
>  --
>  Fedora-marketing-list mailing list
>  Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com
>  https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

[Nicu Buculei]

Francesco Ugolini wrote:
>  
>  I've done some banner ( http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/ 
>  Banners ) that everybody can put in their site or blog to make fedora  
>  more visible to all. Those are a beginning. 
I know animations in web pages are evil, but for some obscure reasons, 
some people seems to prefer them. So here is an animated one:
http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/banners/fedora_banner_composite.gif

note: I did not put it on the Wiki because the procedure with 
certificates and stuff look to complicated for such a small thing.

-- 
nicu
my hats collection: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/hats/
Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org
my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro

[Tejas Dinkar]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:55 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>  I know animations in web pages are evil, but for some obscure
> reasons, 
>  some people seems to prefer them. So here is an animated one:
>  http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/banners/fedora_banner_composite.gif 
This is my favorite one so far!!!

unfortunately, this is a bit grainy (the word 'voice' is), so can you
please make a bigger one, and we'll put it on the fp.o wiki.

Hell, I vote for it to come on the first page!!!

GJa

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tejas Dinkar wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:55 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>   
>
> >I know animations in web pages are evil, but for some obscure reasons, 
> >some people seems to prefer them. So here is an animated one:
> >http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/banners/fedora_banner_composite.gif
> >    
> >
>
> This is my favorite one so far!!!
>
> unfortunately, this is a bit grainy (the word 'voice' is), so can you
> please make a bigger one, and we'll put it on the fp.o wiki.
>
> Hell, I vote for it to come on the first page!!!
>
> GJa
>  
Its pretty good but I wouldnt want to put it in the front page without 
atleast slowing down the animation speed. Can you help document the 
procedure of doing it?

-- 
Rahul

[Nicu Buculei]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Tejas Dinkar wrote:
> >
> > This is my favorite one so far!!!
> >
> > unfortunately, this is a bit grainy (the word 'voice' is), so can you 
The grainy part was my mistake in converting from true color to indexed, 
I corrected this along with another visual bug so the image is updated now:
http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/banners/fedora_banner_composite.gif
The animation is also twice as slow (see below for more details).

> > please make a bigger one, and we'll put it on the fp.o wiki.
I have to wave my hand in a Jedi gesture and say: you do not want a 
bigger one :p
This banner is in a standard size, 468x60, we do not want to have 
banners in unusual sizes, that would be evil - for example people who do 
not want to be annoyed by banners can block those standard sizes either 
with some browser extensions (AdBlocker for Firefox) or with a proxy.

The next standard size is 600x120, which is in my opinion somewhat too 
big and not so much used.
Doing the banner at a bigger and non-proportional size would involve 
re-creating it from scratch. I will do it only if absolutely needed.

> > Hell, I vote for it to come on the first page!!!
> >
> > GJa
> >
>  Its pretty good but I wouldnt want to put it in the front page without 
>  atleast slowing down the animation speed. Can you help document the 
>  procedure of doing it? 
Unfortunately, the Gimp does not have (AFAIK) a one click solution, but 
there are at least two ways:

1. open the GIF in Gimp. see the delay in milliseconds in the name of 
each layer. adjust as needed - this is no good in an animation like this 
with a lot of frames.

2. use the XCF source: 
http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/banners/fedora_banner_composite.xcf
open it with Gimp and save as GIF. select to save layers as animation 
and specify the delay you want. the resulting GIF is very big, so open 
it again in Gimp and use Filters->Animation->Optimize and save the 
result again as GIF.

The second method is a little awkward: normally you would first optimize 
and then save as GIF, but this will impose a delay of 100 ms, so you 
have to save as GIF to set the desired delay first (probably I should 
complain to Gimp developers about this).

-- 
nicu
my hats collection: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/hats/
Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org
my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro

[Francesco Ugolini]

Ok, i post your great proposal (very beautifull)in the wiki page.

Best regards

Francesco Ugolini

Il giorno 13/mar/06, alle ore 09:55, Nicu Buculei ha scritto:

>  te: I did not put it on the Wiki because the procedure with  
>  certificates and stuff look to complicated for such a small thing.

[Francesco Ugolini]

If iyou would can you write a short description of your work, so i  
can put that in the wiki above your banner.
Il giorno 13/mar/06, alle ore 09:55, Nicu Buculei ha scritto:

>  Francesco Ugolini wrote:
> > I've done some banner ( http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/ 
> > Marketing/ Banners ) that everybody can put in their site or blog  
> > to make fedora  more visible to all. Those are a beginning.
>
>  I know animations in web pages are evil, but for some obscure  
>  reasons, some people seems to prefer them. So here is an animated one:
>  http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/banners/fedora_banner_composite.gif
>
>  note: I did not put it on the Wiki because the procedure with  
>  certificates and stuff look to complicated for such a small thing.
>
>  -- 
>  nicu
>  my hats collection: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/hats/
>  Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org
>  my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro
>
>  --
>  Fedora-marketing-list mailing list
>  Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com
>  https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

[Nicu Buculei]

Francesco Ugolini wrote:
>  If iyou would can you write a short description of your work, so i 
> can 
>  put that in the wiki above your banner. 
I see you already put it on the wiki, but please, attach the file to the 
wiki page, do not hotlink it from my poor and unreliable server, it may 
become too popular (the wiki software has the ability to upload files).

-- 
nicu
my hats collection: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/hats/
Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org
my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro

[Francesco Ugolini]

Ok
Il giorno 13/mar/06, alle ore 15:18, Nicu Buculei ha scritto:

>  ady put it on the wiki, but please, attach the file to the wiki  
>  page, do not hotlink it from my poor and unreliable server, it may  
>  become too popular (the wiki software has the ability to upload  
>  files).

[Francesco Ugolini]

I've done this.

Il giorno 13/mar/06, alle ore 15:18, Nicu Buculei ha scritto:

>  Francesco Ugolini wrote:
> > If iyou would can you write a short description of your work, so  
> > i  can put that in the wiki above your banner.
>
>  I see you already put it on the wiki, but please, attach the file  
>  to the wiki page, do not hotlink it from my poor and unreliable  
>  server, it may become too popular (the wiki software has the  
>  ability to upload files).
>
>  -- 
>  nicu
>  my hats collection: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/hats/
>  Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org
>  my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro
>
>  --
>  Fedora-marketing-list mailing list
>  Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com
>  https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

[Clair]

On Monday 13 March 2006 15:11, Francesco Ugolini wrote:
>  I've done this. 
To help my poor inbox, can we please not send emails like "OK","Will
do","I've 
done it","Ok, wiki updated" to the mailing list? It's not really
useful, two 
emails saying "I'll do it" and seconds later "Done" is pointless
(people 
don't check their mail constantly) :)


Ta,
Clair.