Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase

2011-01-25 Thread Ivanka Majic
On 25/01/11 12:44, Thorsten Wilms wrote: After a quick check with Iain and Ivanka: It shall be photos and drawings for the Showcase, not (necessarily) wallpaper format. Iain will update the Showcase wiki page. Thanks Thorsten. Yes. These are parallel activities. -- Ivanka Majic' Creative

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase

2011-01-25 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 01/25/2011 12:27 PM, óÅÒÇÅÊ wrote: I saw John Baer's proposal linked to it somewhere (and it seems reasonable to me, but I'm sure it's better to discuss that specification with Iain Farrell first). John does not care or manage to sync his efforts with the Design Team or the rest of us, so

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase

2011-01-25 Thread Ivanka Majic
On 25/01/11 11:27, ?? wrote: Looks like we're facing duplication of effort again: we have two different Ubuntu wallpaper contests. The first one is http://design.canonical.com/2011/01/bright-light-and-beautiful/, I saw John Baer's proposal linked to it somewhere (and it seems reasonable to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase

2011-01-25 Thread Сергей
Looks like we're facing duplication of effort again: we have two different Ubuntu wallpaper contests. The first one is http://design.canonical.com/2011/01/bright-light-and-beautiful/, I saw John Baer's proposal linked to it somewhere (and it seems reasonable to me, but I'm sure it's better to discu

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] 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] 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] Free Culture Showcase History - was Re: Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-14 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 02:38 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: > On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 15:46 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: > > I'll focus on stuff that is achievable right now, but my opinions on > > the original idea still stand I am afraid, I really do think that > > there ought to be a separate pool for abst

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase History - was Re: Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-14 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 15:46 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: > I'll focus on stuff that is achievable right now, but my opinions on > the original idea still stand I am afraid, I really do think that > there ought to be a separate pool for abstract and nonphoto default > wall proposals, and they do de

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase History - was Re: Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-14 Thread Saleel Velankar
> Right, you did switch the focus of the initial proposal(which aims at > the default install). The initial proposal though is an unnecessary > duplication of efforts, with no real probability of being accepted for a > default. > > "The Ubuntu community desires to ... To aide in meeting this object

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase History - was Re: Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-14 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 14:22 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: > > > I didn't think that this is such a radical proposal as all that. Right, you did switch the focus of the initial proposal(which aims at the default install). The initial proposal though is an unnecessary duplication of efforts, with

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase History - was Re: Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-14 Thread Saleel Velankar
IIRC this years FCS will be focused on an overarching theme of light(?) and ubuntu specific stuff will be turned down. Here is the thing, my proposal for new non photo pool covers stuff that was clearly made for Ubuntu, yet not made because of a request, or a spec. These walls are being made alrea

[ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase History - was Re: Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-14 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 09:48 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 19:52 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > Exactly for this reason the submissions should be in the pool, > where the > jury will see them in any case. > Not to mince my words here, but the jury i

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase Theme

2010-11-05 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 13:06:45 -0400 Saleel Velankar wrote: > > For Topic: Could it be included in the showcase? Or run as a firt-boot > > intro or something? > > > > I believe that the descision was made at uds that the freeculture showcase > was about

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase Theme

2010-11-05 Thread Iain Farrell
On 05/11/10 17:06, Saleel Velankar wrote: For Topic: Could it be included in the showcase? Or run as a firt-boot intro or something? I believe that the descision was made at uds that the freeculture showcase was about great art, and not about ubuntu specifically. Iain' s idea of usi

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase Theme

2010-11-05 Thread Saleel Velankar
> For Topic: Could it be included in the showcase? Or run as a firt-boot > intro or something? > > I believe that the descision was made at uds that the freeculture showcase was about great art, and not about ubuntu specifically. Iain' s idea of using light as a theme is great in principle. However

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase Theme

2010-11-05 Thread Boudhayan Gupta
Hi! On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 16:46 +, Iain Farrell wrote: > On 05/11/10 16:25, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: > > OT: Is that video advert of Ubuntu shown at UDS and covered by OMG > > Ubuntu available in HD somewhere? > > It is indeed! I've already added it to the examples section of the > design tool

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase Theme

2010-11-05 Thread Iain Farrell
On 05/11/10 16:25, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: OT: Is that video advert of Ubuntu shown at UDS and covered by OMG Ubuntu available in HD somewhere? It is indeed! I've already added it to the examples section of the design toolkit http://design.canonical.com/brand/Examples/Video/Introducing%20Ubun

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase Theme

2010-11-05 Thread Boudhayan Gupta
OT: Is that video advert of Ubuntu shown at UDS and covered by OMG Ubuntu available in HD somewhere? For Topic: Could it be included in the showcase? Or run as a firt-boot intro or something? On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 15:43 +, Iain Farrell wrote: > On 05/11/10 01:15, Saleel Velankar wrote: > > >

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase Theme

2010-11-05 Thread Iain Farrell
On 05/11/10 01:15, Saleel Velankar wrote: >Got suggestions? Off the top of my head? Earth. Let me explain: earth as in that which supports humanity (the planet). But also earth as in the soil into which our roots grow. Anyways this might sound terrible when I get up in the morning but I did

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase Theme

2010-11-04 Thread Saleel Velankar
>Got suggestions? Off the top of my head? Earth. Let me explain: earth as in that which supports humanity (the planet). But also earth as in the soil into which our roots grow. Anyways this might sound terrible when I get up in the morning but I did want to get the discussion rolling on this. I

[ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase Theme

2010-11-04 Thread Thorsten Wilms
Hi! A few of us had a session about the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase at UDS. Wiki page of the previous run: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase While results have been good to great for pictures and music, there has been a dearth of videos plus a tendency of them being focused on U