looking for volunteer to create a ConTeXt ad (220x250 px)
Is there any volunteer to create an image with add for contextgarden.net, 220x250 pixels big? See http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1184/community-promotion-ads-1h-... for examples. Mojca
Am 2011-10-27 um 15:06 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
Is there any volunteer to create an image with add for contextgarden.net, 220x250 pixels big?
See <http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1184/community-promotion-ads-1h-...
for examples.
Grrr, I’d like to smash/downvote/flame that horrible uppercase-gothic CTAN ad, but I don’t have the privileges... Some others are really bad, too. Ok, here are my own designs, you may find them no better. I don’t have upload permissions. The photo of the first one is by Dieter Schütz (pixelio.de), my request for the necessary permissions is still open. Since the pics are some bytes too big, I uploaded them to the garden: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/File:garden1.png http://wiki.contextgarden.net/File:garden2.png Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 2011-10-27 um 15:06 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
Is there any volunteer to create an image with add for contextgarden.net, 220x250 pixels big?
See http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1184/community-promotion-ads-1h-... for examples.
Grrr, I’d like to smash/downvote/flame that horrible uppercase-gothic CTAN ad, but I don’t have the privileges... Some others are really bad, too.
Ok, here are my own designs, you may find them no better. I don’t have upload permissions. The photo of the first one is by Dieter Schütz (pixelio.de), my request for the necessary permissions is still open.
Since the pics are some bytes too big, I uploaded them to the garden: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/File:garden1.png http://wiki.contextgarden.net/File:garden2.png
Personally, I am not a big fan of garden based analogy. I think that the advertisement should be of ConTeXt (with link to context garden) rather than of Contextgarden. My vote is for something alone the lines of this year's graphic for the context meeting. Aditya
On 27-10-2011 18:31, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
My vote is for something alone the lines of this year's graphic for the context meeting.
Attached. Maybe I should commission Duane for a couple of small context lions so that we have some variation. Or we could build a collection (each conference an extra one). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 27-10-2011 18:31, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
My vote is for something alone the lines of this year's graphic for the context meeting.
Attached.
I meant this one: http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2011/website.png
Maybe I should commission Duane for a couple of small context lions so that we have some variation. Or we could build a collection (each conference an extra one).
That will be great. Aditya
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 19:40, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 27-10-2011 18:31, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
My vote is for something alone the lines of this year's graphic for the context meeting.
Attached.
I meant this one: http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2011/website.png
Looking and comparing all the different proposals ... I like the design by Hraban a lot, but the problem is that when a LaTeX user comes to the site and sees an advertisment for a garden, with a photo of garden and CTOETNT title, he has absolutely no idea what the advertisment is about. My first association would be some gardening tools. Even though it is visually nice, I would probably not click on it unless I was interested in flowers. The attachment by Hans is very nice, but doesn't tell anything, while the picture of a castle is really nice and does tell some story even to someone unfamiliar with ConTeXt: MathML, Metapost, XML, Lua, ... The only remaining problem is photoshoping the image to remove 2011 and Belgium if we want to create a generic add. Mojca
Am 2011-10-27 um 18:31 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
Personally, I am not a big fan of garden based analogy. I think that the advertisement should be of ConTeXt (with link to context garden) rather than of Contextgarden.
Mojca asked for a contextgarden ad, not a generic ConTeXt ad. Am 2011-10-27 um 20:59 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
I like the design by Hraban a lot, but the problem is that when a LaTeX user comes to the site and sees an advertisment for a garden, with a photo of garden and CTOETNT title, he has absolutely no idea what the advertisment is about. My first association would be some gardening tools. Even though it is visually nice, I would probably not click on it unless I was interested in flowers.
I thought the advertising would only appear on a TeX related site. Perhaps my use of Zapf Dingbats wasn’t typographical enough. But I don’t insist. Just delete my files on the garden.
The attachment by Hans is very nice, but doesn't tell anything, while the picture of a castle is really nice and does tell some story even to someone unfamiliar with ConTeXt: MathML, Metapost, XML, Lua, ...
The only remaining problem is photoshoping the image to remove 2011 and Belgium if we want to create a generic add.
Here you are: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/File:context_castle_2011.png Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 15:23, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 2011-10-27 um 18:31 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
Personally, I am not a big fan of garden based analogy. I think that the advertisement should be of ConTeXt (with link to context garden) rather than of Contextgarden.
Mojca asked for a contextgarden ad, not a generic ConTeXt ad.
Am 2011-10-27 um 20:59 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
I like the design by Hraban a lot, but the problem is that when a LaTeX user comes to the site and sees an advertisment for a garden, with a photo of garden and CTOETNT title, he has absolutely no idea what the advertisment is about. My first association would be some gardening tools. Even though it is visually nice, I would probably not click on it unless I was interested in flowers.
I thought the advertising would only appear on a TeX related site. Perhaps my use of Zapf Dingbats wasn’t typographical enough. But I don’t insist. Just delete my files on the garden.
The attachment by Hans is very nice, but doesn't tell anything, while the picture of a castle is really nice and does tell some story even to someone unfamiliar with ConTeXt: MathML, Metapost, XML, Lua, ...
The only remaining problem is photoshoping the image to remove 2011 and Belgium if we want to create a generic add.
Here you are: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/File:context_castle_2011.png
Thank you very much, I added it to SX, feel free to vote: http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1184/community-promotion-ads-1h-... I'm missing a clear message to the user, but I'm not sure what that could be. I only wrote "ConTeXt" for "mouse over". Suggestions for better text are welcome. Mojca PS: It is a pitty that Taco didn't send you the original high resolution before you started, but this one is just fine. I have chosen to do exact 0.5x magnification in order to avoid weird artifacts, so one foot is missing now :) Something is missing in the part where 2011 was written, but well ... we will figure something out. I can still edit the post.
On 28-10-2011 15:47, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
PS: It is a pitty that Taco didn't send you the original high
The scanning happened here, so I have the several resolution scans on my machine. On the other hand, you don't want too large images on a wiki (and there's also the issue of limiting the distribution somewhat in order to prevent misusage). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
The only remaining problem is photoshoping the image to remove 2011 and Belgium if we want to create a generic add.
Here you are: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/File:context_castle_2011.png
Can you add "wiki" in the same style as ConTeXt from the space where "2011" was removed? Aditya
Am 2011-10-28 um 18:07 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
The only remaining problem is photoshoping the image to remove 2011 and Belgium if we want to create a generic add.
Here you are: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/File:context_castle_2011.png
Can you add "wiki" in the same style as ConTeXt from the space where "2011" was removed?
No, sorry, I cannot draw. BTW: The retouched pic wasn’t meant as ad itself, I wanted only to provide a base for one. I find Bibby’s style a bit too oldfashioned for ConTeXt or LuaTeX, even if it might fit TeX or LaTeX. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
Am 2011-10-27 um 19:29 schrieb Hans Hagen:
On 27-10-2011 18:31, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
My vote is for something alone the lines of this year's graphic for the context meeting.
Attached. Maybe I should commission Duane for a couple of small context lions so that we have some variation. Or we could build a collection (each conference an extra one).
I retouched this one, too: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/File:context_knight_2011.png Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
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