On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Steffen Möller <steffen_moel...@gmx.de> wrote:
> * get more artists attracted to Debian and encourage them to contribute > in some way that we may not even foresee, yet.... it's art after all. > How to render Debian more attractive to artists I don't really know. Valessio Brito has been trying to push this a bit through things like art.debian.net. > What comes to mind: > o a Debian blend for art? pkg-multimedia folks were thinking about starting some blends, I think this could fit well there. > o better visibility of authorships for contributed art throughout the > system, to help the artists' promotion? The chosen desktop themes in desktop-base get good coverage in the more popular desktops (GNOME, KDE etc) but things like GNUStep, openbox, awesome don't use the default themes yet. > o competitions, prices? Some competitions happen at art.debian.net, for example the recent Debian and Debian women mascots > * strengthen the concept of Blends more for various communities. This > may help to ensure more complete workflows for various user groups > and increases the likelihood that because of particular ties between > users and developers the one or other piece of glue code may find > its way into the archive, which may not fit to any particular package > but ist just helpful in some way, +1 I plan to start some game-related blends at some stage. I need to dig a bit more into the technical side of blends first though. http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Blends -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktimvhwg3c-wrc55ukbiryrdz4ra...@mail.gmail.com