Prepare for Mel Chua FOSS Talk

[jwflory]

Summary

Set up infrastructure and update printed promotional materials for @mchua's FOSS Talk on Monday, Sept. 24

Background

@mchua is delivering a FOSS Talk on Monday, Sept. 24. We need to start promoting her session and getting infrastructure in place for the FOSS Talk.

Details

• [x] Set up EventBrite form to collect RSVPs for ordering food
• [x] Promote EventBrite on all RIT FOSS community mailing lists
• [x] Update the FOSS Talk poster from file dump (#62)
• [x] Send to @itprofjacobs + Brenda for approval and request for printing (quantity based on how many people we can recruit to hang posters)

Outcome

@mchua has an awesome FOSS Talk on Monday, Sept. 24, people come to see it, people have an all-around good time :tada:

[jwflory]

An Eventbrite form is now created, pending final approval before sending out more widely.

I am having battles in Inkscape to get the old Illustrator file working (found here). I'll try to work with a lab computer to make the edits in the short-term.

[ghost]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 05:27:24PM -0700, Justin W. Flory wrote:

An Eventbrite form is now created, pending final approval before sending out more widely.

I am having battles in Inkscape to get the old Illustrator file working (found here). I'll try to work with a lab computer to make the edits in the short-term.

Do you have access to a workstation somewhere with a license for the legacy proprietary software that handles that format, and that might be able to export or "save as" a format more amenable to use in Inkscape et al?

[jwflory]

@ritjoe wrote… Do you have access to a workstation somewhere with a license for the legacy proprietary software that handles that format, and that might be able to export or "save as" a format more amenable to use in Inkscape et al?

I'm hoping to get my hands on an IST lab computer with a recent version of Illustrator to get it into an Inkscape-workable format. :slightly_smiling_face:

[nlMeminger]

@ritjoe wrote… Do you have access to a workstation somewhere with a license for the legacy proprietary software that handles that format, and that might be able to export or "save as" a format more amenable to use in Inkscape et al?

I'm hoping to get my hands on an IST lab computer with a recent version of Illustrator to get it into an Inkscape-workable format. slightly_smiling_face

I'm pretty confident that the IST lab computers have illustrator, but if they do not I would suggest trying one of the College of Arts labs or the libray

[jwflory]

I got it figured out (see FOSSRIT/brand@1b27b39400da61cd0863bd3f7ac7864d8880a0dc). An updated PDF is available here. I'm sending this off for final approval now.

Edit: 25 color copies were requested.

[jwflory]

The email announcement was sent out to the fossrit, floss-seminar, and ritlug-announce mailing lists. I'm leaving this issue open pending printed posters to hang up this week.

[jwflory]

Attendee list sent for accounting purposes to MAGIC. Successfully held FOSS Talk this past Monday. Thanks @mchua for the awesome presentation.

Closing as complete. :clapper: