[HLUG] SFD files - feedback

[Paul Stenning]

The timeline could be a good thing to put up on a display panel if we 
have room and think it's relevant.

I'm probably not the best person to write that sort of short description 
as I'm not that knowledgeable and would have to research it. If someone 
knows the info and has experience with the different distros they could 
probably do it quicker.

Paul


On 02/08/2010 09:39, info at lifespacedesign.co.uk wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback, I'm a big boy now so I'm not at all bothered by
> criticism.
> I knocked these up for exactly this purpose. The dpi settings are low to keep
> the file size down for sharing; all this can be reset in the final version.
>
> The timeline does not work, so Paul, when you have a few minutes, can you knock
> up a VERY SHORT description of the distro's as you suggested and post it in our
> Piratepad. I think we can make boxes for each with name, badge, url/homepage and
> description.
>
> Pete
>
> On 02 August 2010 at 09:22 Julian Robbins<joolsr1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 2 August 2010 07:49, Paul Stenning<paul at sp-tech.co.uk>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I think the Popular Distros timeline thing will be unreadable when printed
>>> at A4 and even A3.
>>>
>>> It's too much detailed information anyway, what people will want is a short
>>> list of popular distros and some indication of which to try, what the
>>> differences are etc.  We are targeting Windows users who want to try Linux
>>> and should be guiding them towards suitable options.
>>>
>>> They won't care that distro B is a fork of distro A and that it was renamed
>>> in 2004, they want to know if it's easy to use, will run on their computer,
>>> can run the programs they want, and they can get help if they have problems
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> Its always difficult when someone has worked really hard on something and
>> then appear negative. But I do agree with Paul on this.
>>
>> The graphics themselves are nice though.The power of FOSS!
>
>>
>> One small point, most logos are available as svg or eps vector files which
>> mean they will not lose their crispness whatever size they are blown up to.
>> Some of the logos look like they may be less than 300dpi which is what you
>> need as a minimum for 'proper' printing (though you can get away with less
>> depending on the print media used etc)
>>
>> Julian
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