fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-25 Thread Nicu Buculei
As you may know, we have an open process [1] for submitting artwork proposals for Fedora 8. The *tentative* deadline for the first round [2] is approaching fast, in one week and we don't have yet *any* formal submission. With a tight schedule for F8 I think this date may slip, but only with a fe

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-25 Thread Dimitris Glezos
O/H Nicu Buculei έγραψε: > As you may know, we have an open process [1] for submitting artwork > proposals for Fedora 8. > The *tentative* deadline for the first round [2] is approaching fast, in > one week and we don't have yet *any* formal submission. With a tight > schedule for F8 I think this d

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-25 Thread Nicu Buculei
Dimitris Glezos wrote: O/H Nicu Buculei έγραψε: I understand that graphics in F7 have a high degree of polishing and may look intimidating for a new contributor [...] I wouldn't be disappointed at all if we introduced a simple and clean theme, nor if we shipped a previous proposal which was l

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-25 Thread Mark
My artwork is far at this moment but i`m still wondering if making artwork will be good.. because with F7 the Redhat people decided to make the theme internal even with alot of good theme proposals. so if redhat plans to do this same trick again when all the proposals have been made than i would l

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-25 Thread Ben Arnold
On 25/06/07, Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As you may know, we have an open process [1] for submitting artwork proposals for Fedora 8. The *tentative* deadline for the first round [2] is approaching fast, in one week and we don't have yet *any* formal submission. With a tight schedule f

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-25 Thread Martin Sourada
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 14:56 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: > Dimitris Glezos wrote: > > O/H Nicu Buculei έγραψε: > >> > >> I understand that graphics in F7 have a high degree of polishing and may > >> look intimidating for a new contributor [...] > > > > I wouldn't be disappointed at all if we introdu

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-25 Thread Nicu Buculei
Mark wrote: My artwork is far at this moment but i`m still wondering if making artwork will be good.. because with F7 the Redhat people decided to make the theme internal even with alot of good theme proposals. so if redhat plans to do this same trick again when all the proposals have been made

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-25 Thread Martin Sourada
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 15:37 +0200, Mark wrote: > My artwork is far at this moment but i`m still wondering if making > artwork will be good.. because with F7 the Redhat people decided to > make the theme internal even with alot of good theme proposals. so if > redhat plans to do this same trick agai

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-25 Thread Máirín Duffy
Ben Arnold wrote: A while ago, Marian had an idea for an abstract design. I made a wiki page [2] for idea collection along with a sketch at the bottom. I'm slightly unsure of this fitting in with simplicity idea but if the detail is kept low, I'm sure it would be fine. Ah, that is your sketch?

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-25 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 15:37 +0200, Mark wrote: > My artwork is far at this moment but i`m still wondering if making > artwork will be good.. because with F7 the Redhat people decided to > make the theme internal even with alot of good theme proposals. so if > redhat plans to do this same trick agai

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-25 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
I am skipping the first round because there are some fresh ideas that need to be displayed. Just waiting for the second to get some initial draft aroun. Luya ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listi

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-25 Thread Michael Beckwith
I'm new to newsgroups and such, so hopefully this goes out to everyone. I'm just observing at the moment, as I am interested in doing graphic stuff for linux, but don't know where I could start. On 6/25/07, Luya Tshimbalanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am skipping the first round because there

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-25 Thread Nicu Buculei
Michael Beckwith wrote: I'm new to newsgroups and such, so hopefully this goes out to everyone. OK and welcome! This is a particular discussion thread about artwork (wallpapers, splash screens) which will be included in Fedora 8, so if you want to talk about something else is better to ask i

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-27 Thread Ben Arnold
On 25/06/07, Máirín Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ah, that is your sketch? I love it! Yep, from a photo of a A5 paper as my scanner broke :) I've quickly done a digital version whilst at college and uploaded it to the wiki [1] along with a PNG export to show how it should look [2] - I had t

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-27 Thread Martin Sourada
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 17:25 +0200, Ben Arnold wrote: > Yep, from a photo of a A5 paper as my scanner broke :) > > I've quickly done a digital version whilst at college and uploaded it > to the wiki [1] along with a PNG export to show how it should look [2] > - I had to use Illustrator and saved as

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-27 Thread Ben Arnold
On 27/06/07, Martin Sourada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 17:25 +0200, Ben Arnold wrote: Hm... it's nice, but IMHO it's too much detailed... I would wash the details out, so that icons will be easily distinguishable from the wallpaper. Sure, it is quite detailed. Some of the

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-27 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 27 juin 2007 à 18:56 +0200, Martin Sourada a écrit : > Your paper sketch inspired me... So I quickly drawn in Inkscape an idea > of what I'd like... That's funny the sketch reminded me of celtic/high middle age metalwork, and you took it in another direction entirely. IMHO your idea

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-27 Thread Martin Sourada
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 19:05 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le mercredi 27 juin 2007 à 18:56 +0200, Martin Sourada a écrit : > > > Your paper sketch inspired me... So I quickly drawn in Inkscape an idea > > of what I'd like... > > That's funny the sketch reminded me of celtic/high middle age met

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-27 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: As you may know, we have an open process [1] for submitting artwork proposals for Fedora 8. Thank you Nicu for reminding us about the deadlines and driving this forward! I have been hesitant to start really driving this because I was hoping I could get you all a more fir