[TOS] POSSE print material designs: looks like we're going to get 'em looking good.

[Mel Chua]

So, update:

A bunch of us have bemoaned the lack of quality design/layout for POSSE 
materials - we want a snazzy little bunch o' dead trees we can be proud 
to hand out to people at conferences and workshops! - and so Sebastian 
and I dropped Emily Dirsh, Fedora Design ninja, a line to see if a 
little freelancing to create open materials for this might be an option.

After talking with Emily: the gameplan is to first come up with a LaTeX 
stylesheet we can use to generate good-lookin' print materials, and then 
work on a LaTeX --> html stylesheet so the same markup can be loaded 
into a CMS (likely Drupal) to generate both web and print.

Full logs at 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teachingopensource/2011-02-28/posse_design.2011-02-28-20.06.html.

A few notes:

1. All designs and materials will be released under an open content 
license (CC-BY-SA-X.X unless someone tells me why this is a terrible 
idea), made in open formats using open tools (LaTeX, Drupal, etc) and 
generally be free and open all the way through. This was important to us.

2. The first milestone (LaTeX --> pdf stylesheet) is slated to come in 
right before SIGCSE, so we can have samples out. For instance, imagine 
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/IRC_and_wiki_introduction_exercise 
with screenshots and a layout as gorgeous as the pdf at the end of 
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/inkscape-class-day-1/.

3. Emily has asked for sample markup with all the syntax we'll be using, 
so it looks like I'll be refreshing my LaTeX memory shortly. :) LyX has 
spoiled me - it's been a while since I cranked open a text editor and 
wrote TeX with my BARE HANDS *gruntgrunt* - but it shall be done.

Favorite LaTeX tips and stylesheets, notes, etc. extremely welcome. 
(Between LaTeX and XML, we thought LaTeX might be a bit more palatable 
to tech academia, in case profs end up wanting to tweak the document 
sources.)

--Mel