Hello, Time to speak about the "Open Source, Just Works - The LGM Book Workshop" which is scheduled on saturday on LGM. The idea behind that was to publish the papers of the talks. So see the book as marketing for your project and ideas, second point is - there hopefully will some profit for LGM. ;) So everyone should know now, if he has a talk on LGM now
http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2012/program/ I did the preparations now, first I choosed the size of the book. The book will be 190 x 270 mm and it will be done in paperback. I also calculated the borders for the pages left - 17.105mm right - 33.070mm top - 24.255mm bottom - 47.632mm As u see its a traditionally book border, where is a lot of space on the page borders. I calculated a book with 300 pages and 30 of them in full color. We have 47 talks and workshops means if all speakers participate in the book and want there content published, everyone can have 5 or 6 pages. That includes the illustrations. The rest is needed for titel, index and so on. In that configuration the book will be selled at 39.90€ what means there will be 3.80€ a book for LGM. If we have lesser pages it will be cheaper but most important are the colored pages. We can print each position of a page colored but each colored page costs 0.09€, so I would be happy if there would be lesser then the calculated 30 colored pages. If you need some illustration of your talk pages, it will be mostly charts and diagrams or stuff like that. They can be done mostly in greytones. There are some special needs for printing that, like using steps with 20%grey and the strongth of the lines. So that looks all of that illustrations in the same way, I will do them. Only thing what u have to do is send me a sketch what u need, if u send it with plenty of time before LGM, I will show you the finished illustration before it becomes part of the book, so u can add some wishes or correctings. We will use the LGM font which is OSP-DIN http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/osp-din, text size should be 12, some have headlines and subheadlines, for them its 26 and 22. After the headline should follow a line with the names of the speaker font size is 14 and italic. Text on the first page should begin after the 1/3 of the page. Sizes are only that u can calculate the pages. It should look like this http://gnokii.fedorapeople.org/lgm-book.png (its without border) I will accept all open format, so it doesnt matter if u use abiword, calligra, OOo or Libreoffice or just a text editor. Because of the time, I have to set up an deadline which will be first day of LGM. What is already late, because I have not really time to work on LGM, so I have to do the text preparations on the evenings until saturday. So be fair with me, send it earlier. If u have some questions or need help, just speak with me but wait not to long with it. I have to plan my time a little bit becauseI have to work on another book, which I have to finish next 2 weeks. br gnokii _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
