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> ----- Original message ----- <br />
> From: "Dave Neary" <dneary@maemo.org><br />
> To: "List for community development" <maemo-community@maemo.org><br />
> Subject: Re: maemo.org preferred tools and formats<br />
> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:58:19 +0100<br />
> <br />
> <br />
> Hi,<br />
> <br />
> Andrew Flegg wrote:<br />
> > Stick a wiki page up:<br />
> ><br />
> > * SVG (Inkscape enhanced fine)<br />
> > * PNG<br />
> > * ODF<br />
> > * ODP<br />
> > * PDF (for stuff which is not intended to be edited)<br />
> <br />
> Add TIFF, JPG, HTML, I would think.<br />
> <br />
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JPG and HTML added, as well as numerous others.  I now have a table in progress on google docs:<br />
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<a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQAht1tOx2U6ZGRoYmg4eGdfMGdkODJ2cWNx&hl=en" target="_blank"><font color="#ee6100">http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQ...ODJ2cWNx&hl=en</font></a> (editable by all)<br />
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talk thread: <a href="http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=43681">http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=43681</a><br />
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I am testing apps as I build the table so it's very slow going.<br />
<br />
> The question raises an issue - where should this type of stuff go in the<br />
> wiki? I don't necessarily mean categories (ot could be Category:Media<br />
> and Users I suppose), but more where does it fit in the navigation?<br />
> Clearly this is not a link for the front page (which needs some cleaning<br />
> up I think), but if someone comes onto the front page looking for this<br />
> kind of information, what link would they look for & click?<br />
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Good question.  I think we need a high-level Standards category.  Under it would come the logo, fonts, file formats, templates, themes etc.<br />
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> <br />
> > More interesting, IMHO, are the standard presentation templates I've<br />
> > been (intermittently) trying to get some momentum for for the past 2.5<br />
> > years. But having a set of standard formats for collaboration within<br />
> > the community can't be bad.<br />
> <br />
> I'm not a fan of presentation templates at all - and I think that effort<br />
> put into making them would not be time well spent. Templates sometimes<br />
> (often?) encourage poor practice in slide design, and the template<br />
> elements like logos distract from the message you're working to get<br />
> across. I don't need to see a maemo.org logo on every slide for a Maemo<br />
> presentation.<br />
> <br />
> Personal opinion, of course, but I'd much prefer to teach people good<br />
> presentation style than to have everyone use the same template to<br />
> artificially enforce a visual identity.<br />
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I find templates useful as a good launch point if nothing else, and can help when a dominant theme (eg, Maemo Summit) is important.<br />
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> <br />
> Cheers,<br />
> Dave.<br />
> <br />
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