[consulting] Still need help with a Drupal one page handout

Wed Sep 20 07:25:56 UTC 2006

We needed to update it locally, so ended up importing the text into
Pages. I'd like to do some more work on this in some common format
that we can all do layout with. I don't know what that is, other than
PDF, I guess, but we struggled with importing from that as well.

Again, thanks to Eric for his work on this.

I'll be posting this to the DrupalCon site and sticking this into CVS
and doing more work on layout. We have a dearth of marketing
materials, both written and graphical, so more is better at this.

On 9/19/06, Eric Goldhagen <eric at openflows.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you.
>
> I have made all the changes you mentioned, except the change in the
> development platform section, and I only left that out because I have
> a deadline in the morning and your edit would have changed the length
> of the box, and I don't have time to do too much on this tonight.
>
> Attached are the new scribus and pdf files.
>
> --Eric
>
>
> >Eric Goldhagen wrote:
> >>I just tried up upload new files with a couple of fixes people
> >>suggested via email (some text was missing at the end of
> >>...
> >>
> >>attached is the revised version for review and comment (if this
> >>list takes attachments)
> >>
> >I took a look at this version, and there's still a couple of spacing
> >problems in the second paragraph.  There's a space after the hyphen
> >in "community-contributed", and apparently a space or some other
> >word break between the i and n of interactions, with the result that
> >the i appears at the end of one line, and the nteractions at the
> >start of the next.
> >
> >Personally, I'd prefer to see that full sentences after a colon are
> >capitalized, especially since the ones starting with Drupal must be.
> >It looks more consistent to me, and easier to read if they're all
> >capitalized.  I realize that both options are acceptable, so this is
> >just a personal preference.
> >
> >For the three paragraphs inside the top-center block, either all
> >three headings should have colons or none.  Also, the first
> >paragraph needs a period.
> >
> >I'd prefer that the sentence style in this block be the same.
> >Currently, the first two start with an imperative sentence, while
> >the last begins with a declarative.  An alternative might be:
> >    A Development Platform
> >    Quickly and easily extend in non-trivial ways.  The Drupal environment is
> >    the ultimate in developer friendliness, as it is cleanly
> >structured and easy to
> >    learn.
> >
> >I'm hoping these are appropriate comments at this time.  I'm afraid
> >I'm not familiar with scribus, and between that and the issue with
> >the wiki, it seemed that trying to go that route would turn into a
> >black hole for me.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Gary
> >
> >>--Eric
> >>
> >>>close to final version in pdf and scribus format are now online.
> >>>
> >>>If you want to use the scribus file to make changes, download the
> >>>gzipped version, the .sla version won't work.
> >>>
> >>>(can someone with admin on the wiki please remove the .sla file, thanks.)
> >>>
> >>>note that I am not a designer, I have not done desktop publishing
> >>>on a professional level for over 15 years. any crit of design and
> >>>layout are encouraged.
> >>>
> >>>--Eric
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I had some minor computer troubles, but the rough draft is
> >>>>finally online at:
> >>>>https://svn.bryght.com/dev/attachment/wiki/DrupalOnePager/drupal_one_pager_new.pdf
> >>>>
> >>>>--Eric
> >>>>
> >>>>>>On 9/11/06, Eric Goldhagen <eric at openflows.org> wrote:
> >>>>>>>At 7:40 AM -0700 9/11/06, Boris Mann wrote:
> >>>>>>>>Hey all:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>I'm writing to ask for more help with a one page handout [1], as Dries
> >>>>>>>>and I are fully booked doing final preparations for DrupalCon.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>This is going to be quite general, and be a one page overview of
> >>>>>>>>Drupal similar to the handout for OSCON 2005 [2]. Ideally, we'll brand
> >>>>>>>>it with Drupal but not add any specific date items, or make it easy to
> >>>>>>>>edit so people can re-use it at other events or for their own
> >>>>>>>>purposes.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>Any additions to the page would be much appreciated, or even better,
> >>>>>>>>someone to stand up and own the process of refactoring and completing
> >>>>>>>>the text for the page.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>[1] https://svn.bryght.com/dev/wiki/DrupalOnePager
> >>>>>>>>[2] https://svn.bryght.com/dev/wiki/DrupalOnePagerOSCON2005
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>I might have some time to help. Can you give me some more info?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Who is the target audience? Is there a list of events to be included
> >>>>>>>as in the OSCON example?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>The target audience is conference attendees in general (i.e. not just
> >>>>>>EuroOSCON). At EuroOSCON, there will be more suits/consultants, at
> >>>>>>FOSDEM there are largely developers.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Dries is giving a talk, and we might briefly mention BarCamp, GovCamp,
> >>>>>>and DrupalCon (although DrupalCon is full).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>By when is the final version needed to allow for time to make copies?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>By early next week. We can easily go to a copy shop and get them made
> >>>>>>quickly. It's the wording / layout that needs work.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Thanks.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>So the target audience is made up of people with some level of
> >>>>>tech background. This is to interest techies and others
> >>>>>attending the conference interested in looking more at drupal
> >>>>>(and not aimed at non-techie folks understanding why they should
> >>>>>look for techies that know drupal).
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I will put up some text changes tomorrow night, and then wait
> >>>>>for others to add their changes to the wiki. Then on friday
> >>>>>night (i've got a 4 hour train ride with nothing to do) I will
> >>>>>do the layout and post that to the wiki for comment on saturday
> >>>>>a.m.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I could then make a final version on the train ride back to NYC
> >>>>>on sunday evening.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>--Eric
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