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Business cards to promote a Codidact site?

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In August, I'll be attending a conference about microcontrollers and electronics in general. This would be the perfect opportunity to promote the Electrical Engineering site. I'll be talking to many people directly and even teaching a class where I can mention Codidact and the EE site.

I'd like to make up business cards for the site. These should have the Codidact logo, the site title and logo, a brief description, and of course the URL.

I have multiple questions, but these are all closely related to the single topic:

  • Has anyone already laid out such a card?
  • Something for another site I can tweak?
  • What about copyright and trademark issues of the logos? What requirements are there to use these with permission?
  • How do I get high-res versions of the logos that I can then shrink to whatever size I want?
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How does this look?

Sample business card

Happy to tweak as necessary, then I can send that to you in any convenient format with our permission to use as you've described.

As far as the more general case is concerned:

  • The logo image in the site header is high-res enough for the majority of purposes, but if larger sizes are needed I can export them from the originals on request.
  • Permission to use Codidact or community logos will always be case-by-case, but can generally be requested either by posting here as you have, or by email to our support address.
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Some tweaks I'd like (7 comments)
Thanks, but I'd still like to know the answers to my questions. (1 comment)
Some tweaks I'd like
Olin Lathrop‭ wrote 3 months ago

I like the site logo at top and the bottom line with the URL and the Codidact logo. The words in the middle sound to "salesy", and I really dislike the much overused exclamation point. I was envisioning something I could create on my own so that nobody else needs to see the many iterations from first draft to final version. I'll be back with different middle text later, but I have to go now.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote 3 months ago

I'm back now. Here is proposed middle text:

Q&A site for enthusiasts to professionals, hosted by a non-profit organization using open-source software. In the page referenced below, click Help in the banner, then read the pages under Electrical Engineering Site for more information.
Olin Lathrop‭ wrote 3 months ago

OK, that looks good. What can you give me that I can send to a place that prints business cards? Standard business cards are 3.5 x 2 inches. 600 DPI should be more than enough for whatever process the business card place has. That comes out to 2100 x 1200 pixels. If you can get that to me in a TIF file with lossless compression, then I can take it from there.

ArtOfCode‭ wrote 3 months ago

Olin Lathrop‭ I've emailed it to you

Monica Cellio‭ wrote 3 months ago

Olin Lathrop‭ if you'd like a dismissible message on the main page like "new here? read this (link)", we can do that. For an example of what I mean, visit Software Dev n an incognito window. (If you had that, you might not need the instructions to read help on the business card.)

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote 3 months ago

That sounds like a good idea in general. I didn't know it was available. The link should go to the first help article for the EE site. I should edit the help articles so that each has links to the next, previous, and table of contents. That way someone can read the whole thing thru easily without having to go back and forth (and loose their place) to some list of articles.

We should start a question in EE meta about the text of the newbie message.

I don't like the help system in general for Codidact sites, but that's for another discussion. There is way too much irrelevant stuff ahead of what a new user really needs to know. I stopped writing help pages when it got unusable.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote 3 months ago · edited 3 months ago

I agree the help system needs work. There's at least one code change we need before we can reorganize it all.

I asked a question on EE Meta about a newbie message.