Re: [ubuntu-art] Flickr - What is the desire of this group?
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 06:54:58 pm j_baer wrote: I use Flickr and for the most part I am happy with how it works. I discovered large images are cropped to 1024x768 and this may be a problem if we are going to use Flickr for wallpaper submissions (2650x1920). I assume this restriction is removed if you purchase a pro subscription. Although $24.95 is not a lot of money it raises all kinds of physiological questions about open source, free, community support, etc. Some may question why the wiki is not good enough. My question is the desired role of Flickr for the Ubuntu ArtTeam? Guess I should have answered this email first ;) I was at UDS and simply missed it, sorry. The flckr group is just one way of contributing to the artwork team. It is an attempt to enable the existing community as well as an extremely large of group of talented non-members to contribute desktop wallpaper-ish artwork. It's mainly photos, due to the nature of flickr. In Karmic we used it to include some nice non-default wallpapers which has been a feature request for years. Note the the selection of images included was done by a team of community members and Canonical employees. If you look at the shortlist group you see the first round of voting, etc. Anyway, many of the contributions came from non-pro accounts. The downside to that is that they can a) only upload a limited amount of photos and b) can't upload high-res versions. In these cases we contacted the person by email. There was quite a lot of work in the background contacting everyone, etc ;) LP, the wiki, mailing list and irc are still our home ;) During Karmic the size of the wiki pages became an issue (too many pics per page) so for Lucid we'll have to do some gardening now and again to keep things in categories or such. -- Ken -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Flickr - What is the desire of this group?
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Haymaker haymakers...@gmail.com wrote: If it's filesize issues you're worried about on the Wiki, we could use an external dedicated image hosting site like imgur http://imgur.com/(which the owner says is an example of code re use http://imgur.com/faq.php#how, which could be open source stuff but I'm not sure and I'm too lazy to look into it.) It's not file size that is the issue, but that the wiki itself locks up after a certain number of images are loaded, reguardless of file size. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Flickr - What is the desire of this group?
I use Flickr and for the most part I am happy with how it works. I discovered large images are cropped to 1024x768 and this may be a problem if we are going to use Flickr for wallpaper submissions (2650x1920). I assume this restriction is removed if you purchase a pro subscription. Although $24.95 is not a lot of money it raises all kinds of physiological questions about open source, free, community support, etc. Some may question why the wiki is not good enough. My question is the desired role of Flickr for the Ubuntu ArtTeam? :) -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Flickr---What-is-the-desire-of-this-group--tp26412575p26412575.html Sent from the ubuntu-art mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Flickr - What is the desire of this group?
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:54 AM, j_baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: Some may question why the wiki is not good enough. https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art I'm not an official member of the art team by any means, but I can answer this question at least. The wiki isn't good enough because after a certain number of images are loaded on a page, it refuses to load any more. Before Flickr, near the end of the release cycle, new submissions would be unable to be viewed. Smartboy -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Flickr - What is the desire of this group?
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:54:58 -0800 (PST) j_baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: I use Flickr and for the most part I am happy with how it works. I discovered large images are cropped to 1024x768 and this may be a problem if we are going to use Flickr for wallpaper submissions (2650x1920). I assume this restriction is removed if you purchase a pro subscription. Although $24.95 is not a lot of money it raises all kinds of physiological questions about open source, free, community support, etc. Some may question why the wiki is not good enough. My question is the desired role of Flickr for the Ubuntu ArtTeam? :) I think this is a very important point, I don't now whether this was overlooked, but this does restrict entries, because of this size limit. I think something like a DeviantArt group (if they exist? Inkscape used them for their splash screen contests) should be set up alongside the Flickr group, so we don't lose the ability to quickly mark a photo on flickr as suitable, but also don't lower the barrier of entry. -- Andrew Wednesday, 18th November 2009 -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Flickr - What is the desire of this group?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 18, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Andrew wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:54:58 -0800 (PST) j_baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: I use Flickr and for the most part I am happy with how it works. I discovered large images are cropped to 1024x768 and this may be a problem if we are going to use Flickr for wallpaper submissions (2650x1920). I assume this restriction is removed if you purchase a pro subscription. Although $24.95 is not a lot of money it raises all kinds of physiological questions about open source, free, community support, etc. Some may question why the wiki is not good enough. My question is the desired role of Flickr for the Ubuntu ArtTeam? :) I think this is a very important point, I don't now whether this was overlooked, but this does restrict entries, because of this size limit. I think something like a DeviantArt group (if they exist? Inkscape used them for their splash screen contests) should be set up alongside the Flickr group, so we don't lose the ability to quickly mark a photo on flickr as suitable, but also don't lower the barrier of entry. I've discussed using deviantArt for some ubuntu community work with them directly and they asked for a large amount of money to do it ;( - -- Ken -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD4DBQFLBD4sqThMjb0Fj3oRAvE7AJd7h6bxZYQMiOtcX8w7zP6HGl3hAJ4qh8C8 5Jc9eTzwGAqfQtmNWDx/sg== =sbmZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Flickr - What is the desire of this group?
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Kenneth Wimer kw...@ubuntu.com wrote: [snip] I've discussed using deviantArt for some ubuntu community work with them directly and they asked for a large amount of money to do it ;( - -- Ken What about using a place like http://ubuntu-art.org/ or http://gnome-look.org? -Chris -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Flickr - What is the desire of this group?
Kenneth Wimer-5 wrote: On Nov 18, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Andrew wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:54:58 -0800 (PST) j_baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: I use Flickr and for the most part I am happy with how it works. I discovered large images are cropped to 1024x768 and this may be a problem if we are going to use Flickr for wallpaper submissions (2650x1920). I assume this restriction is removed if you purchase a pro subscription. Although $24.95 is not a lot of money it raises all kinds of physiological questions about open source, free, community support, etc. Some may question why the wiki is not good enough. My question is the desired role of Flickr for the Ubuntu ArtTeam? :) I think this is a very important point, I don't now whether this was overlooked, but this does restrict entries, because of this size limit. I think something like a DeviantArt group (if they exist? Inkscape used them for their splash screen contests) should be set up alongside the Flickr group, so we don't lose the ability to quickly mark a photo on flickr as suitable, but also don't lower the barrier of entry. I've discussed using deviantArt for some ubuntu community work with them directly and they asked for a large amount of money to do it ;( - -- Ken Perhaps Yahoo would be willing to support open source by relaxing the file size restriction for communities like Ubuntu. A request like this would probably be better received if made by Canonical but I am willing to give them a shout if you prefer. John -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Flickr---What-is-the-desire-of-this-group--tp26412575p26419289.html Sent from the ubuntu-art mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Flickr - What is the desire of this group?
I've discussed using deviantArt for some ubuntu community work with them directly and they asked for a large amount of money to do it ;( - -- Ken wait what? why cant we just set up an unofficial group? A collection maybe? http://browse.deviantart.com/collections/?loggedin=1 -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Flickr - What is the desire of this group?
http://help.deviantart.com/673/ -- Saleel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
