Hi Matthias, On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 14:15 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > Hey, > > one change we are planning to make to the desktop spin in F13 is to go > from targeting a cd to targeting a 1g usb stick. That will give us > enough breathing room to include not only OpenOffice, but also some > example content on the spin. We've wanted to do that for a long time, > but the cd size restriction have prohibited that. > > The example content is meant to serve several purposes: > > - Be informative and/or pleasant > > - Allow users to try the included apps So I'm wondering whether template-like content is something we should include, or do we strictly want examples of content? E.g., just to illustrate what I mean: we could maybe brainstorm a set of templates of things a user might like to create with their new Fedora desktop and build templates for each. Just a quick list of examples off the top of my head - note I don't have any particular apps in mind here either: Printables: * a to-do list * calendar * business letter * photo album / photos * mix CD label * business card On-Screen Documents: * slide decks * simple web page * photo album web page * web page banner * simple video * animated gif (popular for online forum avatars) Maybe for each provide a filled-out, polished example and provide a template alongside it. But maybe this kind of idea is going a bit too far towards providing templates rather than just raw content. Probably openoffice.org has some templates that could be used for this purpose - but it could be a nice value-add thing for Fedora to include some hand-picked high-quality ones included out-of-the-box. How about tutorials? E.g. we could hand pick the best-of-the-best of openly-licensed tutorials like these and PDF-ify them maybe with a standard Fedora template (kind of like we did for the 1 page release notes) and include them in the Documents directory: http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/ http://esdev.net/top-10-inkscape-tutorials/ http://gimp-tutorials.net/ http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/ FLOSSmanuals has some great instructional content - the digital foundations ones are particularly good http://en.flossmanuals.net/ They were originally produced for graphic design courses using the Adobe Suite and have been converted to use free software graphics apps instead. At least a default bookmark to these in Firefox would be good. > - Showcase content that has been produced with open source apps Besides Big Buck Bunny, maybe Elephant's Dream to this end. What do you think about including 2S artworks? There's a lot of beautiful digital paintings on deviantart that were created with Gimp and/or Inkscape... artists on there are usually quite willing to license CC and deviantart does have a built-in system to license under CC. > > - Make the desktop spin more useful, e.g. to ambassadors > > > Examples that might fit some of these categories are: > > - Suitably licensed music or movie trailers (big buck bunny has been > mentioned already) How about Sita Sings the Blues? http://sitasingstheblues.com/ I did an 'I am Fedora' video (http://a28.video2.blip.tv/3020000043336/Mairin-IAmFedora740.ogg) but its not great. Maybe Colby (cc'ed) can think of some good Fedora videos he's produced that would be short-ish and easy to include. Maybe some audiobooks from librivox? Or just load their feed urls so they're easily downloaded post-install without taking up space on the disk? I filed this bug earlier but For music would it be worth putting together a playlist (maybe 5-10 songs) of really high-quality work from Jamendo? > - Spreadsheets or documents that contain interesting facts about Fedora > or open source It might be cool to do something with some of the data we've got from smolt on Fedora usage? > > - the 1-page release notes pdf that was debuted for F12 ~m -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
