Know your audience: --- Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 05-Jul-06, at 1:47 AM, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
On 05/07/06 01:07 +0530, Steven Joseph wrote:
Hi ,
I'd be more than happy to volunteer for this, I
have not used
these tools but i have sound knowledge of the ubuntu system.
Please stop top posting. I suspect though that
someone with more
experience in those tools would be better in this
particular case.
A Scribus/GIMP expert would be more suited to
answer questions than an
Ubuntu expert (since this is going to be a rather
distro independent
issue).
and although i hate to rain on the parade, it is going to be a hell of a job convincing journalists that gimp, inkscape, scribus are the 'equivalent' of quark express, corel draw, adobe illustrator ...
What makes you think that the journalists who show up for the meeting will have any knowledge of any of these apps?
Either the proprietary or OSS ones? What is needed for this demo is a few slides or how-tos that show that you can do straightforward cut/paste on pictures in Gimp, and text/graphic placement in Scribus (plus create a document of up to about 150 pages), with accompanying style sheets/templates. This will take a little preparatory work, but it is in a good cause, right?
Actually, since it is raining quite hard in any case, let me add my own dampening comments: the journos who show up are not going to be decision-makers on technology in their own outfits. Focus on showing them that non-proprietary and not-so-well known apps actually do work, that's all. If you can prepare some screenshots in advance, hand them out on CD so the journos will hopefully use them in their stories (ie, I hope this exercise results in stories).
And carry a wooden leg: the bar at the Press Club is really very reasonably priced.
Vickram
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