User:Ianweller/How to create a contributor business card

The Fedora business cards specification explains the new standard for business cards that represent Ambassadors and other contributors to the general public. The cards were designed in consultation with Artwork, Marketing, and the Fedora Project Leader (Paul W. Frields).

This document explains the procedure for producing a business card and converting the colors to CMYK in Scribus for printing.

Install fedora-business-cards

fedora-business-cards is the client application that produces an SVG, PNG, or PDF of a business card and can automatically fill in information in the standard format. Since Fedora 9, you can install fedora-business-cards from PackageKit or yum. With yum as root:

yum install fedora-business-cards

Generate your card

There are different templates for different purposes. You can run

fedora-business-cards --list-templates

to see all of them. You can then pass the template you want (the default is northamerica)

Don't have your size?
If you would like to see a new template for any reason (for example, if the standard business card size in your country is different), please contact Ian Weller with either the request or the new template.

To convert the colors in Scribus, we will want to output to an SVG.

fedora-business-cards --svg

Provide the program with your FAS username and password, and it will show you a sample of the text on your card.

Current business card layout:
   +-------------------------------------------------------------+
 n | Ian Weller                                                  |
 t | Fedora Project Contributor                                  |
   |                                                             |
 0 | ianweller@fedoraproject.org                                 |
 1 | (919) 424-0063 x 5103066                                    |
 2 | ianweller on irc.freenode.net                               |
 3 | fedoraproject.org                                           |
 4 |                                                             |
 5 | GPG key ID: EFA84A36                                        |
   |                                                             |
   |                                                             |
   | fedora                 freedom | friends | features | first |
   +-------------------------------------------------------------+
Enter a line number to edit, or [y] to accept: 

If you are happy with this text, type "y" and press Enter. If you would like to change a specific line, enter the number or letter of that line (for example, "n" or "3" to change "Ian Weller" or "fedoraproject.org", respectively) and press Enter.

The defaults are there for a reason
Please do not deviate from the default settings unless you are unable to be contacted or do not wish to be contacted by one of these means (for example, Fedora Talk).

Once the layout is accepted, the program will export two SVG files: one for the front of the card, and one for the back of the card. The files are exported to fasname-front.svg and fasname-back.svg, where fasname is your FAS username.

The back is optional
If you do not wish to print the back side of the card, you can safely remove that file.