Hi Pravin, we can't do any mockups or work on this ticket without content for the flyers. Can you draft up some text for it? For example:

• Where is the FUDcon? Facility / City / Country
• What are the dates for the FUDcon?
• What kinds of talks are you looking for?
• What is the deadline for talk submissions?
• Where do people submit their talk proposals?
• Is there a theme for the event that we can use to come up with graphical ideas?

Also, when do you need the flyer design completed by? What is the deadline?

shatadru, are you working with pravins on this off-ticket?

Another point of information for the designer taking the ticket - you should work with suchakra to make sure you're using his logo: The ticket for the logo is: https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/352

''' Where is the FUDcon? Facility / City / Country'''
Facility:
MIT College of Engineering, Kothrud
Pune, INDIA

''' What are the dates for the FUDcon?'''
26th to 28 June 2015

''' What kinds of talks are you looking for?'''
Talks, Sessions, Workshops and Hackfests

''' What is the deadline for talk submissions?'''
6th March 2015

''' Where do people submit their talk proposals?'''
http://fudcon.in

''' Is there a theme for the event that we can use to come up with graphical ideas?'''
'national animal' or 'city monument'

Also, when do you need the flyer design completed by? What is the deadline?
11th Feb or earlier if possible.

Replying to [comment:5 pravins]:

''' Is there a theme for the event that we can use to come up with graphical ideas?'''
'national animal' or 'city monument'

We don't have a theme for the event itself. Suchakra and others may possibly come up with a theme for the artwork, but that's not decided yet.

Replying to [comment:3 duffy]:

Another point of information for the designer taking the ticket - you should work with suchakra to make sure you're using his logo: The ticket for the logo is: https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/352

Hi,

Sorry for the delay.

I will be working with pravins and suchakra and will be using the logo suchakra submits.

Thank you.[[BR]]

Shatadru

Replying to [comment:5 pravins]:

''' Where is the FUDcon? Facility / City / Country'''
Facility:
MIT College of Engineering, Kothrud
Pune, INDIA

''' What are the dates for the FUDcon?'''
26th to 28 June 2015

''' What kinds of talks are you looking for?'''
Talks, Sessions, Workshops and Hackfests

''' What is the deadline for talk submissions?'''
6th March 2015

''' Where do people submit their talk proposals?'''
http://fudcon.in

''' Is there a theme for the event that we can use to come up with graphical ideas?'''
'national animal' or 'city monument'

Also, when do you need the flyer design completed by? What is the deadline?
11th Feb or earlier if possible.
Thank you for providing the details.[[br]]
-Shatadru

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The CFP text is not looking good in the flyer, we would need a concise text for the flyer.

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Hi, this is my [https://jurankdankkal.fedorapeople.org/FUDCon/FUDConPune2015/final/flyer/ flyers] version.

Pravins, we really need written copy for the flyer here. What you provided is too long - we need a call to action, and also maybe a list of topics for people to understand whatt kinds of proposals you're looking for.

critique/feedback from design team meeting today

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okay so we have this esign by shatadru: https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/raw-attachment/ticket/353/353_2.png
and he astutely noted that the CFP text is way too dense for the flyer, and that more concise text is needed
(maybe this is why he left pravins in the blocked by field)
blue on blue
these are the mockups jurank_dankkal came up with:
https://jurankdankkal.fedorapeople.org/FUDCon/FUDConPune2015/final/flyer/
this is the first one:
https://jurankdankkal.fedorapeople.org/FUDCon/FUDConPune2015/final/flyer/flyer1.png
on this one i have a few points of feedback:
- the orange and green are really bright and will probably be out of gamut for printers
++
- when you look at a flyer like this, there are a few points of information that should stand out right away. since it's a CFP
- the deadline, event name, and the types of proposals they are looking for are the most important htings i think
the green has to be spot color you definitely gets that otherwise printed
but when i stare at this flyer all i see are bright green and orange, they take a lot of attention away
i think it's a cool technique to take the fedora triangles and make them an indian flag but i think it's too loud for this application
i think the ticket requestor needs to provide better copy for the flyer
just replace that with our green and orange
i would even drop the flag colors
or maybe fade it out, 50% transparency or something
fade out seems a better option
yeh it seems like a lot of visual noise otherwise
this flyer doesn't have a call to action either
is it on purpose that some triangles have spaces in between?
like if you want to get people to submit talks, have a big headline like, "We need your talks!"
or "Propose your talk today!"
some kind of call to action
okay jurank_dankkal 's second design is here:
https://jurankdankkal.fedorapeople.org/FUDCon/FUDConPune2015/final/flyer/flyer2.png
i like this one much better because the focus is more on the content
yeah I also feel that way, just trying to do fedora triangle with indian flag, but it's hard to put the content n combine the color
i like the design in the backgroudn too - you got the orange and green in there but it's not as loud. the only thing is it interacts a lot with the fudcon pune logo, i'd consider separating them (or again, the old trick of 50% opacity the wheel in the back)
the information is presented great here too, we're just missing a list of talk topics
which the reporter didn't provide
i think maybe the white outlines on the fudcon logo are too extreme too
trac.ticket.update -- kevin closed a ticket on the Fedora Infrastructure trac instance as 'fixed' https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4676
it looks off to me, i'm not sure why though
also, if it is for printing out (on a lazer or inkjet), having a olid color on the BG is not
going to look that good
yeh it'll have lines
and heavy on the ink for people printing it out
are people going to know what fudcon is? that it's for fedora?
it should maybe point out it's the Fedora conference
here's what i'd suggest -
thin white line for the fudcon logo?
- we'll set the ticket to block on pravins and ask him for solid copy for the flyer, suggesting that he provide a list of topics for people to propose talks about
- jurank_dankkal, i would contact shatadru since it's his ticket and coordinate with him based on the feedback we gave you today - i'd suggest designing on a white bg too
makes no sense anymore
does that seem like a reasonable plan?
deadline 6th march thats next week
yeah sure mizmo , thanks for the feedbacks guys..
cool hope it helps!
i think maybe the white outlines on the fudcon logo are too extreme too >> do you mean the strokes on the logo?
jurank_dankkal, yeh the strokes on the logo, they don't look right, i think they need to be thicker
they make some artifacts like a little diamond between the 4 logomark pieces
okay, so I'll make it more thicker and also ticket 352 need to be changed too..
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Yes.

I had discussion with shatadru yesterday and referred to him something like http://www.asefma.es/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Call-for-Papers-flyer-723x1024.jpg

I liked https://jurankdankkal.fedorapeople.org/FUDCon/FUDConPune2015/final/flyer/flyer2.png from jurankdankkal. Good if we can further modify with something like above or if any other better idea.

'''I think below contents will be sufficient for CFP FLYERS:'''

FUDCon APAC 2015

26-28 Jun 2015, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

www.fudcon.in

Call for Papers is open now !!

FUDCon is an international free software event held each year in different countries around the world.

Keeping in line with the aim of increasing participation to Fedora and engaging with various OpenSource communities, we hereby invite you to submit proposals of interest for '''Talks, Workshops and Hackfests'''

Submit your papers before 9th March 2015

Should add QR code for http://fudcon.in/call-paper

Okay, I'll try to make it like the referred design.

Replying to [comment:15 pravins]:

Call for Papers is open now !!

FUDCon is an international free software event held each year in different countries around the world.

Keeping in line with the aim of increasing participation to Fedora and engaging with various OpenSource communities, we hereby invite you to submit proposals of interest for '''Talks, Workshops and Hackfests'''

Submit your papers before 9th March 2015

Should add QR code for http://fudcon.in/call-paper

This still seems too verbose for a flyer. Please think of a more concise text, something like:

= FUDCon APAC 2015 =

When | 26-28 June 2015

Where | MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

== Call for Papers ==

Please submit your proposal for talks, workshops and hackfests before 9th March 2015. Know more about it at http://fudcon.in

==== About FUDCon ====

FUDCon or the Fedora Users and Developers Conference is held each year in different countries around the world. It is a premier event for Fedora users and contributors to gather and share ideas on an open platform.

====

The About FUDCon bit could also be optional. The above is just an example btw. It would be nice if someone comes up with something more clever.

What do you guys want the proposals to be about? Fedora specifically? Is it ok for any open source technology to be discussed? Are UX / docs / etc things welcome too? Is there a list somewhere of the topics you're interested in?

Replying to [comment:18 duffy]:

What do you guys want the proposals to be about? Fedora specifically? Is it ok for any open source technology to be discussed? Are UX / docs / etc things welcome too? Is there a list somewhere of the topics you're interested in?

The primary focus would be Fedora and CentOS, but proposals need not be limited to them. We have an indicative list in the [http://fudcon.in/call-paper CFP] but that is not meant to be exhaustive and putting it in the flyer may turn away interesting talks that don't strictly fit into that list. UX, docs, design, technology in education/government, etc. are also equally welcome provided they're about FOSS.

Submitting my draft : https://shatadru.fedorapeople.org/353-simplified_1.png

based on the CFP flyer referred by pravins

Thank you Shatadru.

I liked it. Its basic but working :)

On the other hand its only 1 week remained for CFP, so doing more effort on it might be not worth at this moment.

We can put more effort of actual conference flyer.

If no one has objection with https://shatadru.fedorapeople.org/353-simplified_1.png

Will start spreading this with reminder of CFP.

Oh! I did not follow this ticket progress for quite sometime.

We can put more effort of actual conference flyer.

Yes I would do that in the current situation.

If no one has objection with https://shatadru.fedorapeople.org/353-simplified_1.png

Will start spreading this with reminder of CFP.

The logo is not right however. The stroke length on the text is very less. I would usually just wrap the whole logo in a big white stroke like I did for stickers here [1]. This would be the minimum thing to do at the moment.

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/attachment/ticket/320/sticker-sheet.svg

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I could come up with this [1] quickly. This [2] is how it would look on dark backgrounds. So maybe you can use this. Not super-awesome, but it would be better than previous one till we reach a solution I think.

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/attachment/ticket/353/logo-dark.png [[BR]]
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/attachment/ticket/353/logo-dark-preview.png

Replying to [comment:23 suchakra]:

I could come up with this [1] quickly. This [2] is how it would look on dark backgrounds. So maybe you can use this. Not super-awesome, but it would be better than previous one till we reach a solution I think.

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/attachment/ticket/353/logo-dark.png [[BR]]
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/attachment/ticket/353/logo-dark-preview.png

Suchakra, sorry my apologies, I will update it with the logo you uploaded.

Changed the logo : https://shatadru.fedorapeople.org/353-simplified2.png

here is another one : https://shatadru.fedorapeople.org/fudcon_apac_15/353/353-3-1-compressed.png

since the CFP is over, I'm closing this ticket.