[klug] Ubuntu 5.10 + KLUG Poster

[Steve Withers]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 09:15 +1300, peterd wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a whole bunch of Ubuntu discs that I'd like to put into the P'ram 
> library (for people to take) + the KLUG poster I hit together last year 
> (my wife says aok - she works there)    ...only if you guys are keen 
> that is.

Absolutely. GO for it. :-) 

Ultimately,.we want to recruit more active members. Meetings for the
past 2-3 months have been interesting and very useful, but attendance
has been quite small (4-5 people). 

No reason why everyone has to come to every meeting. Far from it. But it
would be great to have 150-200 in the 60,000 pop area and see maybe 10%
turn up to a given meeting for projects / presentations / events of
interest. 

Ultimately, the goal should be to host an installfest - preferably at
Coastlands or in a school hall. If they let churches in on the weekends,
some ITC stuff should be able to get a look-in. :-)  

> I haven't been coming to the KLUG meetings as I find Linux is still 
> behind with DTP - Scribus is getting there but it's lack of direct pdf 
> import is still a problem. (I receive pdfs from designers and I need to 
> import them directly into my page layout program    +++ colour 
> management is almost non existent in Linux (a Big problem).

Fair enough. 

> However, don't write me off as yet  ...it's only a matter of time.  Xara 
> is porting to Linux and they're, of course, aware of  Linux's lack of 
> colour management + Scribus will get there re pdf import.    
> http://www.xaraxtreme.org/

Ta for that. 

> I'm using The GIMP for most of my image work now. For 'bitmap image' 
> work I do find The GIMP to be the best there is - re brushes, channels, 
> masking and so on. The current lack of CMYK is not a problem as an image 
> can be imported into another app and exported via CMYK.
> 
> I've copied/pasted the poster as below ...I hope it travels ok  
> 
> I'll soon find out  :-D

The list doesn't allow attachments, I don't think. 

Best to send it to each of us individually if we put our hand up - I'll
have a copy.  I trust you'll be printing it and posting it at the
Library? 

Steve