Some time ago, Markus Neteler asked me if I could work on a renewal of
the current grass gis flyer [1]. The point was initially just to bring
it some /cosmetic/ improvment.
After doing that, I suggested it would an opportunity to update also the
contents/illustrations of this promotional material. It's now time to
share this on the list so that you volunteers discuss its form and
substance 
This archive contains my proposal, as is :
http://lesfavrets.fr/telec/grass_flyer_0.tar.gz
Bye,
Vincent.
[1] https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Promotional_material#GRASS_Flyers
On 25/08/15 14:20, Vincent Bain wrote:
Some time ago, Markus Neteler asked me if I could work on a renewal of
the current grass gis flyer [1]. The point was initially just to bring
it some /cosmetic/ improvment.
After doing that, I suggested it would an opportunity to update also the
contents/illustrations of this promotional material. It's now time to
share this on the list so that you volunteers discuss its form and
substance
This archive contains my proposal, as is :
http://lesfavrets.fr/telec/grass_flyer_0.tar.gz
Nice, great job !
Just a few comments:
- I don't think that history should take such a place on a promotional flyer. Actually, I don't think this section should be there at all. Possibly just mention GRASS' age to show its historical stability.
- Is this meant as a flyer to be distributed in A4 format, or is it meant as tri-fold ? If the latter, don't you think it is a bit annoying to have text and image across folds ?
- Would it be possible/interesting to elaborate a black and white version ?
Thanks a lot for you effort !
Moritz
Hello Moritz,
thank you for your quick reaction,
Le mardi 25 août 2015 à 14:37 +0200, Moritz Lennert a écrit :
- I don't think that history should take such a place on a promotional
flyer. Actually, I don't think this section should be there at all.
Possibly just mention GRASS' age to show its historical stability.
I partly share your opinion, this section could be severely shrinked.
- Is this meant as a flyer to be distributed in A4 format, or is it
meant as tri-fold ? If the latter, don't you think it is a bit annoying
to have text and image across folds ?
it's actually a triptycal leaflet (the central image being the "cover"),
but folds follow the length of the sheet, the idea is to make an
attractive --at least striking-- format.
- Would it be possible/interesting to elaborate a black and white version ?
yes, and it's particularly important for illustrations : their b&w
version should be carefully adjusted to be printable on e.g. a standard
laser black printer. Later on, when the layout is fixed, we should also
care for technical margins (reduce to printable area).
Yours,
V.
Nice work, Vincent.
The history should be really short, I prefer something like "...celebrated
30 years of GRASS GIS development in 2013...last change was probably just
few hours ago..."
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Vincent Bain <bain@toraval.fr> wrote:
> - Is this meant as a flyer to be distributed in A4 format, or is it
> meant as tri-fold ?
Tri-fold or not, I'm afraid I'll need US Letter version. Would that be
possible? At least somehow compatible layout would be fine. I have no
access to standard paper sizes 
Hello Vaclav,
Le mardi 25 août 2015 à 09:10 -0400, Vaclav Petras a écrit :
The history should be really short, I prefer something like
"...celebrated 30 years of GRASS GIS development in 2013...last change
was probably just few hours ago..."
Your aphoristic suggestion sounds good to me !
Don't know how many people will contribute, but it might be a good idea
to write down things on a dedicated wiki page...
Tri-fold or not, I'm afraid I'll need US Letter version. Would that be
possible? At least somehow compatible layout would be fine. I have no
access to standard paper sizes
Letter or legal or anything else rectangular... isn't the main concern
the source tool used to produce the document? the most
practical/powerfull format is surely latex (or any tex typesetting
engine) as used for the former flyer, but by convenience I did the first
draft with Inkscape.
I'll probably be short of time for the next two weeks, so I apologize
for the delay in taking remarks/suggestions into account.
Yours,
V.