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[Raymond O'Brien]

Hello,

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[Nathan Beaumont]

I would also like to help as much as possible. But I really have no idea what to do.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Raymond O'Brien <ray@...> wrote:

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[Hrafn Nordhri]

Welcome to the list guys!

I am kind of in the same boat tho I have been lurking the list about a
month. I came to the list a bit late for the Karmic release, so I think
the three of us are just in time for April's release.

To those who live here on the list... what can we start on now? Is it
too early to start asking about the next color palette? Are we working
on Ubuntu images or are we working on extras to support the core from
Canonical?

Eager to start... willing to wait.
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I would also like to help as much as possible. But I really have no idea
what to do.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Raymond O'Brien <ray@...> wrote:
        Hello,
       
        I am multimedia designer in Ireland and would be interested in
        offering any help i can here.
       
        Raymond O'Brien
       
       
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[Boudhayan Gupta]

Hello guys!

 

Think about me! I joined way back, just before Jaunty's release. Been lurking since.

 

I guess the way to go is launching your own project, such as an icon set, GTK+ theme etc and then working on it.

 

You can also work on stuff like wallpapers and countdowns for websites. No one yet has posted a replacement sound scheme....

 

Yours,

Boudhayan Gupta

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Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] hello

Author: Hrafn Nordhri <hrafn@...>

Date: 07th October 2009 8:30:40 AM

 

Welcome to the list guys!

I am kind of in the same boat tho I have been lurking the list about a
month. I came to the list a bit late for the Karmic release, so I think
the three of us are just in time for April's release.

To those who live here on the list... what can we start on now? Is it
too early to start asking about the next color palette? Are we working
on Ubuntu images or are we working on extras to support the core from
Canonical?

Eager to start... willing to wait.
-

"Open war is upon you whether you would risk it or not." ~Aragorn LotR

 

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:20:20 -0700

I would also like to help as much as possible. But I really have no idea
what to do.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Raymond O'Brien <ray@...> wrote:

Hello,

I am multimedia designer in Ireland and would be interested in
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Raymond O'Brien

 

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[Dávid Horváth]

I see that we are gathering :) I'm in the game too! I suppose to be a programmer.

We need a coordinator. Anyone?

Cheers,
David from Hungary

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[Thorsten Wilms]

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:18 +0200, Dávid Horváth wrote:

> We need a coordinator. Anyone?

Well, lets start with some information :)

You all should have a look at our wiki, if you haven't already:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork

The next release is scheduled for the 29th of October, so it doesn't
make any sense to start something new for it.

It's very early in the game for the next cycle, 10.04:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule


It's very important that you understand that the community does not
create the default artwork. There have been exceptions regarding the
wallpaper, but I wouldn't count on that happening again.

There's a design team at Canonical. Friendly and at least in part very
approachable people, but it still is a bit like a black box. Often all
we get to see are the final decisions at the very end of the process,
the reasoning, the strategy remaining somewhat of a mystery.


So what do we get to do?

Create and package themes. It's best I leave it to those actually
involved to tell you more about it.

Create wallpapers.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Backgrounds
For earlier cycles, everyone who felt like it would add a separate page
to the wiki for their wallpapers. This time it was tightly organized,
only to run into a nasty issue with wiki engine: If you request too many
"items" in quick succession, the wiki refuses to deliver. It's called a
"surge protection". That means that on pages with many images, not all
will load. If you then try to view additional images, the wiki answers
with a warning to slow down. It's a reported issue.

Entirely new in this cycle was using Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/pool/
A selection from these went into
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1188458@N24/

My recommendation: Do not even allow wallpaper submissions on the wiki
for the Lucid Lynx cycle. The wiki just doesn't work for this and it's
not fair to contributors to let them add stuff that will be ignored,
anyway. Plus any wallpaper showing up there would encourage others to
add theirs. Instead point to Flickr (if no one can offer an
alternative). So far I got no feedback on this at all.

In case some of you would be interested in creating a web-service:
having a site where you can upload wallpapers (and similar artwork),
with automatic thumbnail generation, nested comments and maybe even
versioning would rock ;)


The countdown banners have been mentioned.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/KarmicCountdownBanners
It will be a while until the call for 10.04 banners ...


There's an entirely community driven and well organized project working
on an icon theme:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/BreatheIconSet


Note that there are many open-source projects that could benefit from
some help with artwork, interaction design and obviously programming, if
you don't find something here.


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[Boudhayan Gupta]

Dear Thorsten,

 

I can help with the wallpaper website, but I need some hosting space which should be able to run WordPress 2.8. Could you manage some?

 

Yours,

Boudhayan Gupta

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Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] hello

Author: Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@...>

Date: 07th October 2009 1:50:25 PM

 

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:18 +0200, Dávid Horváth wrote: > We need a coordinator. Anyone? Well, lets start with some information :) You all should have a look at our wiki, if you haven't already: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork The next release is scheduled for the 29th of October, so it doesn't make any sense to start something new for it. It's very early in the game for the next cycle, 10.04: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule It's very important that you understand that the community does not create the default artwork. There have been exceptions regarding the wallpaper, but I wouldn't count on that happening again. There's a design team at Canonical. Friendly and at least in part very approachable people, but it still is a bit like a black box. Often all we get to see are the final decisions at the very end of the process, the reasoning, the strategy remaining somewhat of a mystery. So what do we get to do? Create and package themes. It's best I leave it to those actually involved to tell you more about it. Create wallpapers. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Backgrounds For earlier cycles, everyone who felt like it would add a separate page to the wiki for their wallpapers. This time it was tightly organized, only to run into a nasty issue with wiki engine: If you request too many "items" in quick succession, the wiki refuses to deliver. It's called a "surge protection". That means that on pages with many images, not all will load. If you then try to view additional images, the wiki answers with a warning to slow down. It's a reported issue. Entirely new in this cycle was using Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/pool/ A selection from these went into http://www.flickr.com/groups/1188458@N24/ My recommendation: Do not even allow wallpaper submissions on the wiki for the Lucid Lynx cycle. The wiki just doesn't work for this and it's not fair to contributors to let them add stuff that will be ignored, anyway. Plus any wallpaper showing up there would encourage others to add theirs. Instead point to Flickr (if no one can offer an alternative). So far I got no feedback on this at all. In case some of you would be interested in creating a web-service: having a site where you can upload wallpapers (and similar artwork), with automatic thumbnail generation, nested comments and maybe even versioning would rock ;) The countdown banners have been mentioned. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/KarmicCountdownBanners It will be a while until the call for 10.04 banners ... There's an entirely community driven and well organized project working on an icon theme: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/BreatheIconSet Note that there are many open-source projects that could benefit from some help with artwork, interaction design and obviously programming, if you don't find something here. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@... https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

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[Thorsten Wilms]

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 15:34 +0530, Boudhayan Gupta wrote:
 
> I can help with the wallpaper website, but I need some hosting space
> which should be able to run WordPress 2.8. Could you manage some?

No, sorry.

I think it's a bit early to worry about hosting.


Let's think a bit about requirements:
- Account management. Would be ideal if people could use existing wiki
accounts.
- Enforce a minimum size of uploads (only for wallpapers), maybe even
one of a list of fixed resolutions/aspect-ratios.
- Automatic thumbnail generation.
- Gallery pages with filtering/search.
- Mandatory specification of a license and author(s).
- Categories/Tagging:  photo vs abstract, tagging for a specific release
as the very minimum.
- Comments per submission, ideally nested.
- Notifications (email) on additions, edits, comments.
- Manage source files such as SVG and XCF.

Very nice to have:
- Ability to link with Flickr. Search both on the site and within Flickr
at once.
- Versioning. Allowing to add newer versions of a submission, while
keeping the old ones available. Mark comments as referring to a specific
version.


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