Re: [ubuntu-art] Community Feedback

2010-09-24 Thread André Pereira 
Hi Martin, my name is André (my nickname is desgua, from my last name
Desgualdo), I'm from São Paulo, Brazil. I am using Ubuntu since 8.04 and
trying to help for a year, although I think I haven't the enough skills yet.
I've made a blog: http://desgualdo.blogspot.com and I've tried to make some
Banners: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/MaverickCountdownBanner#desgua's
draft , I've helped with some translations, I've tried to answer some
beginners questions, I've donated.
I will answer your questions:

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 21:20, Martin Owens  wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I need three or four people to give us some feedback on how we operate
> the Ubuntu art team and the art communities in general. You need to be
> recent members and have a desire to or have worked on making Ubuntu
> pretty.
>
> * How did you learn about this part of the community?
>
I was looking on how I could help the free software and the system I love,
so I ended up here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork#Get Involved


> * What attracted you to this type of participation?
>
I was attracted for this type of participation because I can't make code but
I think I can make some art.


> * Where did you look first for information on getting involved?
>
I wish to help then I look at ubuntu.com > community


> * Did you feel the places you looked for information were useful? If
> not, how could we improve?
>
I think we could improve if we had a site with what should be done first and
what can wait. This site should also make possible to add the artwork in
there.


> * When learning skills and content for participating, were the resources
> you used useful? If not, how could we improve?
>
I think we could have a site with all the basic stuff (the bricks to build
the wall) like logos, fonts, colors.


> * What recommendations would you make for improving your experience in
> our community?
>
I still find it hard to learn how to contribute.


>
> Email me privately if you want to be anonymous.
>
> * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityReview/Sep2010
>
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Thank you very much.
Regards.

desgua.


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Re: [ubuntu-art] countdown stucked

2010-09-23 Thread André Pereira 
Thank you very much.
Regards.

André.

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On Sep 22, 2010 11:24 PM, "Dylan McCall"  wrote:
> As I understand that, it's a caching problem. Reported over here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+bug/642860
>
> It's a new problem from previous releases, because they're trying
something
> new: the countdown is just a single external image that you link to
instead
> of a crazy JavaScript / iframe thing.
>
> Dylan
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[ubuntu-art] countdown stucked

2010-09-22 Thread André Pereira 
I'm afraid that Maverick Meerkat countdown is stuck at 26 days left.
I don't know who I must inform that, then I posted here.
Regards.
desgua.
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Re: [ubuntu-art] What would you like to work on?

2010-09-20 Thread André Pereira 
May be it would be better if we build some wiki page with groups then
everyone of the more than one thousand subscribers can put her/his name and
contact instead of have one thousand emails.
Saturday I will come home earlier and then I can try to make it.
Regards.
desgua.

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On Sep 20, 2010 1:45 PM, "Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)" <
jonat...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi Thorsten
>
> On 20/09/2010 11:06, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
>> What would you like to work on? Don't be shy, this is not binding.
>> - Ubuntu
>
> I guess spending time on Ubuntu artwork isn't really worth while, since
> pretty much anything that the community submits will probably be
> discarded in favour of what the paid-for designers are doing.
>
> There's a community-themes package though, personally I'd really like to
> have more of the really nice GTK themes that's available from gnome-look
> in there. Ambiance is nice, but there's some things it does quite badly
> (like not transparent panel items) that I and many others like to use.
>
>> - Kubuntu
>> - Xubuntu
>> - Edubuntu
>
> I'm currently doing most of the artwork work in Edubuntu, Here's some of
> the things I worked on for the Lucid branding -
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Artwork/LucidBranding, for Maverick we
> just refined that, I guess I should make a new wiki page for the
> Maverick branding as well (even though late).
>
> As part of Edubuntu or on a personal capacity I might end up adopting
> the breathe icon theme (either in part or in whole) since we're using it
> in Edubuntu and it needs some work to be closer in line with Ubuntu's
> artwork vision. It would be great to have it updated while still
> retaining the original design goals of the icon theme.
>
>> - Lubuntu
>
> When the first Lubuntu talks started I actually had some artwork
> prepared for Lubuntu, but my packaging at that stage wasn't quite up to
> scratch to get my changes in before the artwork freeze (this was way
> back in the Karmic cycle). I haven't looked at it since, but I'll do so
> some time and if it seems like they still need a hand I'll ask them if I
> can help.
>
>> - Distribution/flavor independent
>>
>> - Themes
>> - Wallpapers
>> - Icons
>> - Posters, flyers, marketing material
>> - Requested artwork for *buntu-related projects
>> - Sounds
>> - Videos
>>
>> - Planning
>> - Implementation (draw a wallpaper, edit a gtkrc ...)
>> - Packaging
>
> I'm a MOTU and I'm also a reviewer on the REVU system, so if someone has
> packaging they want reviewed or are in need of assistance then they are
> welcome to contact me on IRC.
>
>> - Testing
>> - Bug fixing
>>
>> - Write a better theme engine
>> - Fix theming related issues in GTK+
>> - Develop infrastructure to assist creative processes and/or making our
>> work easily available
>>
>> - Anything else I didn't think of?
>>
>> What are your related skills and experiences?
>>
>> Are there issues that have been hindering you, that we could address,
>> perhaps? Am I scary?
>
> There are people much scarier out there.
>
> -Jonathan
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Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-19 Thread André Pereira 
I agree with Charlie: I can't see why it wouldn't be good to have more
members in this list, even if some will not contribute much for a while.
People need time to learn. And I think everyone is welcome at Ubuntu.

Regards.
desgua.


On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 15:15, Charlie Kravetz
wrote:

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> Vishnoo  wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 12:12 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote:
> > > I am glad to see that others also seem to think that the death of this
> > > list is a problem. This thread is for discussing how to get back on
> > > track.
> > >
> >
> > Another problem is that if we discuss just here , then the
> > replies/solutions get lost in the archives.
> >
> > Lets also summarize here : 
> >
> > > Problem #1
> > > There are far too many people on this list that never seem to post.
> > > Solution:
> > > Trim the list to contributors only, only those that post and
> > > contribute regularly.
> > >
> >
> > I have also had the same idea but I dont think this is a feasible idea.
> > People will want to ask questions, like how the installer question was
> > asked a few days ago.
> >
> > We can leave this mailing list as it is? maybe?
> >
> > What we could do is to make the lp team moderated
> > 
> >
> > And people can get added there once they state their intent.
> >
> > Any work in Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Edubuntu will only be included from
> > Launchpad. So its better if the lp team was restricted to contributors.
> >
> >
> > > Problem #6
> > > We no longer have any direction of what to do.
> > > Solution:
> > > This entirely depends on #4 and the skillsets we can tap on this list.
> > > At the very least, we start off small and create a community set of
> > > wallpapers, as well as alpha and beta wallpapers. Lets find out who to
> > > annoy to get this done. How would you feel if community artwork had an
> > > overarching loose theme, say “Humanity” or “Narwhals”?
> >
> > We can get this done , i dint want to push this too much since i wanted
> > to test the waters here first.. ;)
> >
> > As I mentioned, I had been planning this for a while now, and
> >  is a consolidate of my
> > interaction with other teams. I had nearly given up because there seemed
> > to be lack of interest from others. And I was being told it might be
> > just in vain.
> >
> > Its not just Ubuntu. There are other derivatives we can help too!
> >
> > Xubuntu *for sure* wants help with their artwork!
> > I believe the Xubuntu team has now subscribed to this mailing list too..
> > Let's hear a reply from them directly as well.. :)
> >
>
> I have been silent because it seemed the list only wants to hear from
> the artists themselves. I requested help with Xubuntu artwork, and we
> still want and need help. Unfortunately, the call for artwork to both
> the Ubuntu community and DeviantArt resulted in few replies from
> artists.
>
> If the list became "active contributors" only, how would you expect
> anyone else to ever become active? To maintain an active list, you need
> new contributors that can actually become a part of the community. If
> Ubuntu is not accepting artwork, the derivatives certainly are. Ubuntu
> Studio, Edubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu will all accept help with
> artwork, if you are willing to help us. Xubuntu, at least, does not
> have it's own artwork team at this time, and would accept a team leader
> as well as members to work with that leader.
>
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