I've started sketching out a PR piece about Inkscape 0.40, with the intent of writing up something lengthy that both discusses the new capabilities of the project and encourages people to chip in help at improving things.
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ArticleIntroducingInkscape0_40
I've identified a few areas that definitely need more fleshing out; help on those areas would be quite valuable. Also, example images are needed to show off the capabilities; I'm sure I could rough something together but am betting that folks who actually have artistic talent could do a much better job than I. :-) So help would be much appreciated there as well.
I haven't thought about where to publish it; Footsteps perhaps.
This is also a rough "off the cuff" writing, so needs some editing and wordsmithing, as it's probably too wordy at this point. I haven't even spell checked it, so there's probably seplling and that grammer problem too.
Bryce
Great idea Bryce! You are good at pushing for these types of things. I think it would be good to push on footnotes, osnews and lwn.
The last article you wrote did pretty well, and we are in need of pushing PR to the next level while we are still in the Holiday zone to encourage more contributions.
Jon
Bryce Harrington wrote:
I've started sketching out a PR piece about Inkscape 0.40, with the intent of writing up something lengthy that both discusses the new capabilities of the project and encourages people to chip in help at improving things.
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ArticleIntroducingInkscape0_40I've identified a few areas that definitely need more fleshing out; help on those areas would be quite valuable. Also, example images are needed to show off the capabilities; I'm sure I could rough something together but am betting that folks who actually have artistic talent could do a much better job than I. :-) So help would be much appreciated there as well.
I haven't thought about where to publish it; Footsteps perhaps.
This is also a rough "off the cuff" writing, so needs some editing and wordsmithing, as it's probably too wordy at this point. I haven't even spell checked it, so there's probably seplling and that grammer problem too.
Bryce
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Okay, well please contribute some improvements to the article. I'll try to get it printed widely (though I'll need help). Bryce
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:
Great idea Bryce! You are good at pushing for these types of things. I think it would be good to push on footnotes, osnews and lwn.
The last article you wrote did pretty well, and we are in need of pushing PR to the next level while we are still in the Holiday zone to encourage more contributions.
Jon
Bryce Harrington wrote:
I've started sketching out a PR piece about Inkscape 0.40, with the intent of writing up something lengthy that both discusses the new capabilities of the project and encourages people to chip in help at improving things.
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ArticleIntroducingInkscape0_40I've identified a few areas that definitely need more fleshing out; help on those areas would be quite valuable. Also, example images are needed to show off the capabilities; I'm sure I could rough something together but am betting that folks who actually have artistic talent could do a much better job than I. :-) So help would be much appreciated there as well.
I haven't thought about where to publish it; Footsteps perhaps.
This is also a rough "off the cuff" writing, so needs some editing and wordsmithing, as it's probably too wordy at this point. I haven't even spell checked it, so there's probably seplling and that grammer problem too.
Bryce
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Okay, well please contribute some improvements to the article. I'll
try
to get it printed widely (though I'll need help). Bryce
Let me know how I can help... When it's time to start the announcements, I'll hit up a few art sites (like deviantArt, and sites along those lines). I might also try to find some art forums as well to help spread the word to the masses as well. Hmmm... maybe I'll post on Adobe's forums =P (j/k)
-Josh
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:42:39 +0900 From: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Article to introduce Inkscape 0.40
Great idea Bryce! You are good at pushing for these types of things. I think it would be good to push on footnotes, osnews and lwn.
Gnome-Look has a newspage http://www.gnome-look.org/news
Might aslo be worth asking http://art.gnome.org/ for a mention as a 'featured item'
I realise that print publications dont usually want content that has already appeared on the web but offering to allow them to use the content might be a good way to encourage them to write an article. I sent one or two letters to some graphics magazines but got not response whatsoever, but when Inkscape 0.40 comes out I will try again and see if I can't get it included on a coverdisk somewhere.
The last article you wrote did pretty well, and we are in need of pushing PR to the next level while we are still in the Holiday zone to encourage more contributions.
The article you wrote was good, the interview on the Dot was even better. http://dot.kde.org/1099664490/
(While looking for other sites to suggest I submitted Inkscape.org for inclusion in the Open Directory Project (as used by Google Directory http://dmoz.org ).
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org Free SVG Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org
The Dot for KDE news http://dot.kde.org
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:42:39 +0900 From: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Article to introduce Inkscape 0.40
Great idea Bryce! You are good at pushing for these types of things. I think it would be good to push on footnotes, osnews and lwn.
Gnome-Look has a newspage http://www.gnome-look.org/news
Alan, can you try to get us listed there?
Might aslo be worth asking http://art.gnome.org/ for a mention as a 'featured item'
Yeah, it looks like they've not had an item for a couple months. It would be very cool to get on this page, if anyone's interested in writing a short article for Inkscape.
I realise that print publications dont usually want content that has already appeared on the web but offering to allow them to use the content might be a good way to encourage them to write an article. I sent one or two letters to some graphics magazines but got not response whatsoever, but when Inkscape 0.40 comes out I will try again and see if I can't get it included on a coverdisk somewhere.
It'd be great to see Inkscape included in a coverdisk.
The last article you wrote did pretty well, and we are in need of pushing PR to the next level while we are still in the Holiday zone to encourage more contributions.
The article you wrote was good, the interview on the Dot was even better. http://dot.kde.org/1099664490/
(While looking for other sites to suggest I submitted Inkscape.org for inclusion in the Open Directory Project (as used by Google Directory http://dmoz.org ).
Cool. We've gotten some good PR so far with 0.40. The feature article on LWN was a particularly good win. I don't know if we've gained more contributors but hopefully we'll gain one or two new developers. Guess we'll see. :-)
Bryce
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:13:26 -0800 (PST) From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> Cc: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...>, inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Article to introduce Inkscape 0.40
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:42:39 +0900 From: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Article to introduce Inkscape 0.40
Great idea Bryce! You are good at pushing for these types of things. I think it would be good to push on footnotes, osnews and lwn.
Gnome-Look has a newspage http://www.gnome-look.org/news
Alan, can you try to get us listed there?
Some one else did already http://www.gnome-look.org/news/index.php?id=141
- Alan
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