[fedora-my] FUDCon Guidebook for Foreigner

[Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Prima Yogi Loviniltra <yogi at numoss.org> wrote:
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>> 1 - could you compact this to 1 or 2 pages of A4? .. Considering we
>> are going to email this to the attendees, where they will be printing
>> this on their own, its better to keep the size normal ..
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> What Dean actually think while doing this is that, it's don in A4 size to
> retain the readability quality while read it on the PC but when printed, it
> can be printed as two-pages per sheet. So, when printed out all of it in
> Booklet format, the output will be 2 pages (A4 front/back) full print.

A5 for screen readibility ? .. the smallest text is bigger than my H1
size when viewing full-width

xD ..

imo, A4 is more convenient ... unless you arrange the pages in such a
way, when you print it, it become proper guidebook ..

that is, Page 1, Page 4 in 1 page A4 ... and Page 2, Page 3 in another
A4 page ..

however, that'll cause confusion for screen reading ..

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>> 3 - the for-dummies title .. when i goes through the whole doc
>> quickly, i dont really think its for dummies .. its presenting quite a
>> raw data where unless you have some background in visiting malaysia,
>> you might get a bit confused reading that guidebook .. add some
>> paragraphs to help in giving background information .. write it as if
>> you are writing an email to give directions to a person ...
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> Erm, the 'For Dummies' is not about touring around KL but actually
> specifically refer to the reader who are about to go to the Event itself but
> don't know the way to the place. We try to avoid from putting too much words
> in there to avoid crowded contents. And it's not a raw data; I revised from
> many sites and turn it into points to ease the travellers.

its raw :-) .. just list of train and list of taxis .. without
background instructions .. if you've been in KL before, yes, its
easily understood, but i doubt someone who totally new can understand
it ..

so, add some instructional text on how to get to the venue rather than
just the raw data .. write it as if you are giving vocal instructions
..

and perhaps send it to an Indonesian friend who never been in
Malaysia, to see whether they can understand what the guidebook trying
to convey .. take note that someone who never been here doesnt know
what is KL Transit, what is KL Express, what is Bukit Jalil, what are
Maxis, Celcom, Digi ..

also, its KLIA transit/express .. not KL transit/express

also, it is not clear in the transit map on where they should be
heading to (bukit jalil) .. add instructions for that ..

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> Some of content that will added to make it more content-full is the Tips.
> Lie for instance the USD-MYR exchange.

rather than exchange, tell them the amount of cash in MYR they should
bring over so that they can get to the venue



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