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...@freenet.de
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/1188...@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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