[Scale-planning] Coder help with Design/Graphics

[Ilan Rabinovitch]

Josh,

Is your goal to generate the schedule grid? or the abstract listings? or both?

Ilan


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On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Josh Andler <scislac at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lei,
>
> I'm hoping to have the ability to easily get data into Scribus
> documents. The best summary I can give is the biggest help would be if
> someone could dig in to the python and see that they understand it to
> help create our own custom scripts/tools.
>
> What's available appears to do something akin to our listing of talks
> & descriptions. This section of the program requires a whole bunch of
> manually applying styles (thankfully usually a once over, however time
> consuming process). If I can get text from a csv, either into
> pre-styled elements in a Scribus doc (or I don't know, perhaps the API
> allows setting that in the script) it would save a massive amount of
> time. Ideally, a modified version which would allow populating a table
> (for the visual grid schedule) would likely be the biggest help.
>
> As an offshoot thought, I'm also hoping to be able to use data
> importing to speed up generating the signs as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Ilan Rabinovitch
> <ilan at socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
>> Josh was hoping someone could take a stab at pushing the SCALE
>> presentation list into this code, and seeing what comes out the other
>> side. We're trying to see if this might reduce the level of effort on
>> his end for generating the schedule.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ilan Rabinovitch
>> Conference Chair
>> Southern California Linux Expo
>> 877-831-2569 x110 Voice
>> 818-442-1865 Mobile
>> ilan at linuxfests.org Email
>>
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>> Ask me about sponsorship and speaking opportunities at
>> LinuxFests.org's upcoming events:
>> * SeaGL  - Nov 11-12, 2016
>> * SCALE 15x - March 2-5, 2017 - Pasadena, CA
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Lei Zhang <leiz at socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
>>> It's not obvious what you are asking for. Presumably one takes their
>>> software, feed it a CSV file, and get a SLA file out of it. Are you
>>> looking for help generating the CSV file, or modify their software to
>>> tweak the SLA output to fit your requirements?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Josh Andler <scislac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hey All,
>>>>
>>>> So, working on the printed program for SCALE every year is one of the
>>>> most challenging tasks for the graphics/design team. If there is
>>>> someone who is proficient in python and willing to learn a specific
>>>> application's API, you could probably save us days of work (especially
>>>> if changes happen close to the expo).
>>>>
>>>> Basically, I need a way to pseudo-automate populating the daily
>>>> schedules for SCALE within Scribus. I spoke with a couple developers
>>>> for the application and was pointed to this repository:
>>>> https://gitorious.org/schedule-csv2scribus-rmll/schedule-csv2scribus-rmll?p=schedule-csv2scribus-rmll:schedule-csv2scribus-rmll.git;a=tree
>>>> ... which has the relevant files to generate pages within Scribus from
>>>> CSV files.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone interested, willing to do some digging, and want to talk more
>>>> about it? It would be greatly appreciated if I could get a hand in
>>>> this area.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Josh
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