Re: [ubuntu-art] Layout Examples for Book on Open Soure Publishing
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 13:45 -0700, Rob Oakes wrote: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/09/01/awesome-examples.) What you write about examples in books and quality issues with many free-software related offerings resonates with me. Free Software could do with more and more skilled design and artwork contributors. The path into free software development seems to be much clearer. I wanted to see if there are examples of promotional materials, newsletters, posters, or templates that might be appropriate to include in the book from the Ubuntu project? Perhaps http://www.behance.net/gallery/Getting-Started-with-Ubuntu-10_04-Title-Page/588233 http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/ubuntu-chicago-loco-t-shirt/ Any example of graphic communication (regardless of source) would be appropriate. I am more interested in inspiring and showing solid design principles than advertising for a particular product (even something as wonderful as open source). I can't hand out the few more recent examples of my layout work due to copyright and privacy concerns and the rest is just old and done with Quark Xpress. But have a look at the following. Might not be exactly what you're after, but all qualifies at least for being done with Inkscape: http://linuxaudio.org/files/music/1_front.png http://linuxaudio.org/files/music/1_case.png http://linuxaudio.org/files/music/1_label.png http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/identica-freemusic-group/ http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/mudlet-2/ http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/a-window-for-wubi/ http://www.behance.net/gallery/Bad-Business/481607 SVG sources available. In case illustrations done with GIMP are OK, too: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/design-in-collaborative-projects/ -- 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
[ubuntu-art] Lubuntu Spec
Hey Lubuntu community and Thorsten, I added some love to the Lubuntu spec so we may open this up for submissions. Are my changes acceptable? Best regards, John -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground wallpaper templates and utilities
Hey Thorsten, Will you provide a command line example of how to execute sizes. I am getting an error and I believe the problem is it is trying to output files to a location where it does not have permissions. I am testing with the following syntax python sizes image.png in a folder I titled tmp. John On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: Hi! About wallpaper templates and 2 utilities: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/backtestground/ These tools should help us with evaluating Xubuntu/Edubuntu/Lubuntu wallpaper submissions. Please ask if anything is unclear and don't hesitate to suggest changes and additions to the given explanations. -- 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 -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground wallpaper templates and utilities
Thorsten, Got it! python sizes -o folder image.png John On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:36 AM, John Baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Thorsten, Will you provide a command line example of how to execute sizes. I am getting an error and I believe the problem is it is trying to output files to a location where it does not have permissions. I am testing with the following syntax python sizes image.png in a folder I titled tmp. John On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: Hi! About wallpaper templates and 2 utilities: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/backtestground/ These tools should help us with evaluating Xubuntu/Edubuntu/Lubuntu wallpaper submissions. Please ask if anything is unclear and don't hesitate to suggest changes and additions to the given explanations. -- 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 -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:09 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 07:47 -0500, John Baer wrote: The deadline to the new Artwork Team Logo project is extended to 2011-01-02 (...) I messed up the date on the wiki and just fixed that. Like I said earlier, 1st of February, so 2011-02-01. Sorry about that. Being the one to propose that ISO format, it had to me getting it wrong, of course :} Why dont we forget the ISO naming and just stick with something that is Human-readable? ;) The date formats vary around the world and it will always be confusing for anyone looking at plain numbers for date/months. Instead, for months we use Jan/Feb/Mar.../Dec . And yrs/dates are numerical /DD? That way there would never arise this confusion of the date/month order. -- Cheers, Vish -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 18:52 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: Why dont we forget the ISO naming and just stick with something that is Human-readable? ;) The from big to small order is really not difficult to remember and handle. But currently I have my head elsewhere. Instead, for months we use Jan/Feb/Mar.../Dec . And yrs/dates are numerical /DD? Numerical dates are short and make calculations more obvious (or am I alone in having to translate month names to numbers in my mind first, where I don't have a direct mapping for all months, so need to count steps in some cases?) And then we would have the question which format using names, exactly? -- 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] Backtestground wallpaper templates and utilities
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 08:12 -0500, John Baer wrote: Got it! python sizes -o folder image.png Good thing you found that out. Currently you have to specify the output directory with -o, always. Sorry about that. Of course one also has to make sure the file permission allow execution. I updated my blog post accordingly. I have no clue why I didn't run into this problem, before. Did most of my testing with files installed via setup.py, but there should be no difference. Meanwhile, my PPA issue has been solved, thanks to the patience of Julian Edwards. I simply didn't import my GPG key and already having my SSH key there, using it with bzr all the time, made me think that would be it. But now I have to look into the -o issue, first. -- 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] Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:43:32 +0100 Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 18:52 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: Why dont we forget the ISO naming and just stick with something that is Human-readable? ;) The from big to small order is really not difficult to remember and handle. But currently I have my head elsewhere. Instead, for months we use Jan/Feb/Mar.../Dec . And yrs/dates are numerical /DD? Numerical dates are short and make calculations more obvious (or am I alone in having to translate month names to numbers in my mind first, where I don't have a direct mapping for all months, so need to count steps in some cases?) And then we would have the question which format using names, exactly? I too count out the months when the name appears. Whether numbers or names are used, the format should be standard. I can write as in the U.S. Military 12 December 2010; as in American writing December 12, 2010; as in Europe and the rest of the world 2010 December 12. Then there are the abbreviations of the months, two instead of four digit years, etc. - -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJM/5uYAAoJEFNEIRz9dxbAvdIH/3eajpRMVTxaxwPymIbdPCHs JOf5LrjBPfZ2X+4zVYlLeb3N3qkYDHHC3xc+XX6tG19f72vJoVgUYXhymHhAlVfA m8QSrYV+cAdOd/ZlyFKWIOPGXI80t9pMMcldis72cqrnY46TkC5s6bgAGNp9igD8 WK5im/B65TD2fcE2hRn7k9vz56KILwf8DS4cLLaCtqex5Dn+/v9orT9KjWKJx22b 52siDpL816/As6nL2ksntOMRB++p7TeEv3ev3fOUIp9TGwxbTcW144SaznJTFwu9 0KVR+GV95ejIK88fYj+gWzvytYBkEjOUZQVuJ4ZzpkEaoERN1DlXxlpoZYCVdIM= =dCVc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 14:43 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 18:52 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: Instead, for months we use Jan/Feb/Mar.../Dec . And yrs/dates are numerical /DD? Numerical dates are short and make calculations more obvious I'm not sure I see any need for us to make calculations in the artwork related tasks. From what i foresee, all I can think of are deadlines for dates on the wiki. Which everyone around the world has to understand correctly. If we are in-need of any calculations, it would be only for people writing the task specs, and that would be only a handful[max 10-20 people writing the tasks?]. Even if all those 20 are month-mathematically-challenged and it takes them longer[max 5mins extra?] to figure out the days and months, the trade-off seems OK. More people able to understand the task deadline and not getting it mixed up is better than few members taking a little extra time to write the specs. And then we would have the question which format using names, exactly? Yea, any format order seems good to me. http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-date-format Since obviously option 1 has its pit-fall of not being international-friendly, let's go with option 2 : 1 February 2010 Or if we want to keep it short : 1 Feb 2010 / 2010, 1 Feb -- Cheers, Vish -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended
2010/12/8 Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-date-format Since obviously option 1 has its pit-fall of not being international-friendly, let's go with option 2 : 1 February 2010 Or if we want to keep it short : 1 Feb 2010 / 2010, 1 Feb +1 (or shall I put it 'Vishnoo++'?) Sincerely, -- Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 20:27 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-date-format Since obviously option 1 has its pit-fall of not being international-friendly, let's go with option 2 : 1 February 2010 Or if we want to keep it short : 1 Feb 2010 / 2010, 1 Feb No mixed order, please. I'm not opposed to 1 February 2010. It won't be me going through all specs to adjust the format. If nobody does, 2010-01-01 will remain the standard. -- 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] Backtestground wallpaper templates and utilities
Fixed the bug in sizes where you had to specify -o or get an error. Get the updated file via this most beautiful link: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/% 7Et-w-/backtestground/backtestground/download/t_w_% 40freenet.de-20101208172633-fd3sdha0kgyc3a76/backtestground.py-20101129203610-2qs5uqs0470whggp-1/sizes Blog post edited accordingly http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/backtestground/ -- 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
[ubuntu-art] Wallpaper due dates need to be checked - was Re: Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 18:11 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 20:27 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-date-format Since obviously option 1 has its pit-fall of not being international-friendly, let's go with option 2 : 1 February 2010 Or if we want to keep it short : 1 Feb 2010 / 2010, 1 Feb No mixed order, please. I'm not opposed to 1 February 2010. OK, updated the dates. While checking out the dates, I noticed that the due date for Xubuntu,Edubuntu,Lubuntu wallpaper is specked as *25* Mar 2011. The final date for Natty User Interface Freeze is March *24* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule While the derivatives do have freedom to be a bit flexible with the freeze dates, setting a due date which falls /after/ the freeze is a bit weird. IMO, we should close submissions 10-15days before the UI freeze. Closing alteast 10 days before freeze would give, 7 days for judging and approvals, atleast 3 days for contacting the respective artists and any final tweaks. -- Cheers, Vish -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpaper due dates need to be checked - was Re: Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 18:11 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 20:27 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-date-format Since obviously option 1 has its pit-fall of not being international-friendly, let's go with option 2 : 1 February 2010 Or if we want to keep it short : 1 Feb 2010 / 2010, 1 Feb No mixed order, please. I'm not opposed to 1 February 2010. OK, updated the dates. While checking out the dates, I noticed that the due date for Xubuntu,Edubuntu,Lubuntu wallpaper is specked as *25* Mar 2011. The final date for Natty User Interface Freeze is March *24* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule While the derivatives do have freedom to be a bit flexible with the freeze dates, setting a due date which falls /after/ the freeze is a bit weird. IMO, we should close submissions 10-15days before the UI freeze. Closing alteast 10 days before freeze would give, 7 days for judging and approvals, atleast 3 days for contacting the respective artists and any final tweaks. -- Cheers, Vish Vish, Thank you for adding some love to the Wiki. Ten days sounds good to me but on a different thread to this list the Lubuntu community expressed their desire to close submissions on the March 17th. Does that work? If agreed, let's make them all the same. Best regards, John -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Ready for Lubuntu Wallpaper Submissions
Hello Everyone, I am pleased to announce we are ready to accept Lubuntu wallpaper submissions. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/0008_Lubuntu_Natty_Wallpaper Best regards, John -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Lubuntu Spec
Wow, it looks like minimalist hahaha, what a coriuos wallpaper!! I'm think is Good Regards... Larissa! D: 2010/12/8 Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de Forwarded forwarded mail with permission :) Message transféré De: Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com À: John Baer bae...@gmail.com Cc: mariobehl...@googlemail.com, 神癒礁湖 · Rafael Laguna rafaellag...@gmail.com Sujet: Re: Lubuntu Spec Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:05:00 +0100 Hi John, Le mercredi 08 décembre 2010 à 13:24 -0500, John Baer a écrit : How does the Lubuntu spec look? Please note the spec advises artist to consider other colors than those from your pallet. Is that agreed? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/0008_Lubuntu_Natty_Wallpaper First, please note that I'm not a designer or an artistic people :) About the pallet, do you check with Canonical if others colors are acceptable for a derivated of Ubuntu ? Last time we check, the pallet was limited, and we had to stay with this one (which IMO, is nice). You need also to consider that, if people propose a very different color for the wallpaper, we will not accept it, unless they propose an entire theme which match this submission. So, no need to spend time in submissions we will reject for sure. About the spec : - Introduction We have specific targets for our users, see our wiki page : Lubuntu is targeted at normal PC and laptop users running on low-spec hardware. Such users may not know how to use command line tools, and in most cases they just don't have enough resources for all the bells and whistles of the full-featured mainstream distributions. - Inspiration: Well, our strategy for artwork is more practical : * We want a nice artwork ... * ... with no big requirement * ... which render good and fast - Schedule : Our final schedule for the artwork : March 17th : End of proposal for artwork March 22nd : Decision for Artwork Please note that is for all the artwork. There will be no step before this (not a first step for the wallpaper, and another for the remaining parts). I hope the answer is complete enough, sorry if it's quite late in the process, I was busy recently. Regards, Julien Lavergne -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- *Larissa* *Skype: Lariicsa* *...@lariicsa http://twitter.com/lariicsa* -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
