[ubuntu-art] Kyūdō: Briefing, Top Level G oals of Ubuntu
Hi! I would like to discuss the briefing/mission-statement for the foreseeable future of the project plus the most closely related issues. = Briefing = Within in the long-term goal of achieving an optimal presentation for the Ubuntu GNU/Linux Distribution: Create and deliver an optimal theme for each release, starting with Jaunty Jackalope. Where optimal means: made to the project participants best ability within a release cycle, with the aim to further the goals of Ubuntu. Optionally: create additional themes to meet the needs of other or more specific audiences or specific uses. --- Do you think anything is missing, unclear, superfluous or a bad idea here? Now, based on the thesis that the optimal theme must further Ubuntu's goals, we have to ask what these are: * To offer a free (in both the economic and FSF sense), sustainable platform for commodity requirements with optional commercial support * To act according to the following ideals (from http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/philosophy): 1. Every computer user should have the freedom to download, run, copy, distribute, study, share, change and improve their software for any purpose, without paying licensing fees. 2. Every computer user should be able to use their software in the language of their choice. 3. Every computer user should be given every opportunity to use software, even if they work under a disability. * Have free software break into Microsoft's majority market share (Bug #1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1) --- Is there anything that should be cleared up or added here? Furthermore, there are the key aspects/characteristics of Ubuntu: * Ubuntu is an African word that can be roughly translated as 'Humanity to others', or 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. Read more about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(philosophy) * A strong, friendly and involved community * A benevolent dictator for setting direction and making difficult decisions * Some emphasis on translations * Strong infrastructure (Launchpad) * A history of brown and orange in themes --- Anything missing? Of special interest is what sets Ubuntu apart form other distributions/communities? -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Kyūdō: Briefing, Top Level G oals of Ubuntu
How will you go about copyright? I see Tango icons being used in a lot of places (commercial and no commercial) with zero credit whatsoever (or, at best, a COPYRIGHT file hidden away in some svn trunk, and not even displayed in the instance of). Not that it's a bad thing, but if the copyright was clearly assigned to the project, then the project would get a lot more recognition about it. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Kyūdō Copyright
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 11:26 -0400, Vadim Peretokin wrote: Please start new threads for new issues ;) How will you go about copyright? The Wiki text is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3-0, I'm the sole author so far (although Troy Sobotka had influence on the wording and many a thought) and if anyone sees a problem there, I'm all ears. I see Tango icons being used in a lot of places (commercial and no commercial) with zero credit whatsoever (or, at best, a COPYRIGHT file hidden away in some svn trunk, and not even displayed in the instance of). They are changing the license to Public Domain ... Tango is made to be neutral. Whatever we come up with has to and will be associated with Ubuntu. Once the connection is there, people could use parts of the work elsewhere and it wouldn't matter much. A theme would be licensed like other have been. I see community-themes is on CC-BY-SA 2.5. I guess one could use GPL. Not that it's a bad thing, but if the copyright was clearly assigned to the project, then the project would get a lot more recognition about it. I don't think you can assign copyright to a project with no legal underpinnings. Likely would need to be a foundation. Shared authorship works for the Linux kernel, it will work for us. Other opinions on this? -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Kyūdō Copyright
CC-BY sounds great. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Naxos Themes Update
I really like the Clear theme.Items are more distinguishable and it looks a lot cleaner. Maybe if the main grey was ever so slightly darker, like halfway into the gradient of the title bar? Daniel Message: 1 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:54:46 +0200 From: Giuseppe Pennisi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ubuntu-art] Naxos Themes Update To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain I updated again Naxos and Naxos Clear themes. Fixed text color, metacity and more improve. For more info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/NaxosIntrepid Some Screenshoot: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/NaxosIntrepid?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=naxos_preview_0.6.png https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/NaxosIntrepid?action=AttachFiledo=viewtarget=naxos3_0.6.png Clear: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/NaxosIntrepid?action=AttachFiledo=viewtarget=naxosclear3_0.6.png https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/NaxosIntrepid?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=naxosclear_preview_0.6.png Opinions? gp I'm trying to make a lp project and bzr branch. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
