From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 11:55:10 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 561DC16A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:55:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD1D543D2F for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:55:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from astrodog@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so100187wra for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:55:06 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=cwUaTgmmM81tysDe2P07ctBgFN+475hlDWMf4iC3RKkcAPJenD2C0lvNMAdRSFArDWPfp8MtcxvaTwx1d7WnjxqmuXTShjnCOsQ/7WWAr2ibW9rN90aAPexeG2EQUJ33xccjH86xgjHgkIWPMLapop9d4oNKLlu91VCDz79Y0Tw= Received: by 10.54.7.68 with SMTP id 68mr42082wrg; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:55:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.40.69 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:55:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2fd864e05021003556a6a1c1b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:55:06 -0800 From: Astrodog To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr In-Reply-To: <755183233.20050210123555@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <2fd864e05021002332e78445c@mail.gmail.com> <755183233.20050210123555@wanadoo.fr> cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Business Information. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Astrodog List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:55:10 -0000 On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:35:55 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Astrodog writes: > > > Assuming its not being done already, I'd like to start putting > > together the "business" information regarding FreeBSD for either the > > FreeBSD.com, or somesuch website with the assistance, and (I hope) > > blessing, as it were, with people on the list. I determined that if > > I'm unwilling to do this myself, it is unreasonable to expect others > > to do the footwork. Please let me know if someone else already does > > this, and if not, who would be interested in contributing to such a > > project. > > I can contribute DTP work. I have a full suite of professional > electronic publishing tools and can prepare things like books, > brochures, leaflets, etc., that might be useful for promotional use. Not > being a marketroid, I'm not necessarily qualified to write the content > (although I can certainly help with that if needed), but I can massage > it all into page layouts that can be converted to PDFs and > professionally printed. (I can't cover the physical printing myself, > though, as actually printing the documents costs more than I can > afford). > > If you're going to pitch FreeBSD to corporations and other serious > organizations, you need some sort of promotional literature. Preparing > PDFs for printing or display is delicate work; and Microsoft Word or > StarOffice are not the tools for doing it, sorry. > > -- > Anthony > > I'm definitly(sp) with you on the tools for creating PDFs and printed materials. Making a StarOffice/Word document look right for publication is a pain. Thanks for the rapid response, interest, and volunteering. --- Harrison Grundy