Ever since I saw pradeepto distribute hand outs during his sessions on “Contributing to KDE” at Freed and NIT Calicut a year ago, I always wanted to do something similar to that. It is very true that when your audience have something to take back after the session, the impression created is very different. The handouts need not or should not run to pages as this will again bring down the motivation level. So the best thing would be 1 page handouts with all the basic info like where to download stuff, where to ask questions, website, tools provided, a 2-3 line introduction on the project and some nice graphics to please the eyes.

This weekend, I wanted to try my hand at this handout creation and used Scribus for it. I must say Scribus is an excellent Desktop Publishing tool, with very nice video tutorials for starters like me. The effort put in would be something like 4 hrs and the basic draft output looks pretty neat. Lots of tweakings necessary though.

Download the pdf from here. If anyone wants the editable version of the brochure please do leave a comment and I will send it to you.