Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground Explained

2011-01-21 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 13:46 -0800, graham wrote: > Congratulations on your creativity. I use to do a lot of this when I > was doing graphic design/technical writing and would have loved to > have > had such a script. Interestingly, the Ubuntu Manual team last year developed a tool called 'quick

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase

2011-01-21 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 16:32 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: > Drawing may be too general of a word, too many definitions in English; > Depicting Freedom(?) Drawing is fine, in English it's the context it's involved in. So drawing in freedom is different to the drawing of freedom etc. Many words lik

Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground Explained

2011-01-21 Thread John Baer
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Сергей wrote: > The process of manually taking screenshots, saving them, naming them, > launching the command with the needed parameters seemed too manual to me, so > I wrote a small shell script which does it all automatically. > After running it waits for 3 seco

Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground Explained

2011-01-21 Thread graham
Congratulations on your creativity. I use to do a lot of this when I was doing graphic design/technical writing and would have loved to have had such a script. ttfn graham On 21/01/11 1:14 PM, ?? wrote: The process of manually taking screenshots, saving them, naming them, launching the co

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase

2011-01-21 Thread Saleel Velankar
> > How about: > > 3//illustration: "Drawing freedom" > > 4//video: "Freedom in motion" > -- > Ivanka Majić > Creative Strategy Lead > > Drawing may be too general of a word, too many definitions in English; Depicting Freedom(?) I wrote up a spec. if you could add a due date, it would be awesome

Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground Explained

2011-01-21 Thread Сергей
The process of manually taking screenshots, saving them, naming them, launching the command with the needed parameters seemed too manual to me, so I wrote a small shell script which does it all automatically. After running it waits for 3 seconds, then does all described actions for extract-backgrou

Re: [ubuntu-art] Say hello to nathan.

2011-01-21 Thread Saleel Velankar
it could be a couple of things or a conjunction thereof. 1.shape of eye 2.lack of defined mouth 3.styling around eye. I will play around with it today, thanks vish! -- Saleel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Icon for LibreCAD (future CAD program in Edubuntu/Ubuntu)

2011-01-21 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 09:26 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > It's sad this is being framed as a contest. Thorsten, the contest framing is why I only conceptualized and threw that up. It's not worth doing more than adding to ideas and then getting on with something else. Not to say that there isn't

Re: [ubuntu-art] Say hello to nathan.

2011-01-21 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 22:55 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: > I actually get some stuff down when my internet goes down. This is > nathan, he enjoys cold water, and fighting with his tooth. > > > but seriously could use some critique here. email me directly if you > want the source, last time I thr

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork/Tasks vs Artwork/Specs

2011-01-21 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 10:35 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > Hi! > > Having both > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Tasks > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs > is bad, as keeping them up to date would be a waste of time. > > One should go. > > I originally added the Tasks page to list what is n

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase

2011-01-21 Thread Ivanka Majic
On 21/01/11 09:12, Saleel Velankar wrote: I was wondering if we could produce some banners or widgets people could have on their blogs and websites: "I've entered the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase, have you?" - though perhaps a more snappy version would elicit a better response!

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase

2011-01-21 Thread Saleel Velankar
> > Something like 3 different taglines and the same "Ubuntu Free Culture > showcase" underneath? > > should be 4. always forget video. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase

2011-01-21 Thread Saleel Velankar
> > I was wondering if we could produce some banners or widgets people could > have on their blogs and websites: "I've entered the Ubuntu Free Culture > Showcase, have you?" - though perhaps a more snappy version would elicit a > better response! > Something like 3 different taglines and the same

[ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase

2011-01-21 Thread Ivanka Majic
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, The Free Culture Showcase for this cycle has been announced: http://design.canonical.com/2011/01/free-culture-showcase/ Let's get the word out and get the submissions up. The conversation about tools and talent is an interesting one: why not try and use

Re: [ubuntu-art] Icon for LibreCAD (future CAD program in Edubuntu/Ubuntu)

2011-01-21 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 17:54 -0500, Scott Howard wrote: > www.librecad.org is running a design contest for their logos. > Information is on their site. We're looking for a standard > freedesktop.org icon (.svg preferred). It's sad this is being framed as a contest. Would you do a coding contest, t