On Sunday 15 August 2004 20:42 CET Christian Rauh wrote:
> Al right, that's it! Here it is: the purple chicken with an axe. ;-)

Yeah, very cool :)  Could you make that version number a 3.0 instead of 
2.64?  Then I'd actually go and print me a t-shirt with it on (if that's 
not too expensive) -- not that anybody will get the joke, but hey, who 
cares :)

>[...]
> Aesthetics is part of our quality of life and if one can use excellent
> open source software, why not have a pleasent visual experience with it?
> After all, all that this project is about is making other people's life
> better, isn't?

ACK.  KDE (whose Kontact Splash Screen Contest [1,2,3] actually inspired 
ours in some ways) already has a great community on kde-look.org and I 
guess within the Mozilla project there most be some great artists, too 
(judging from their latest artwork compared to former designs).  And other 
projects which I use less frequently probably have a great community, too.  

Sticking with KDE, they don't only have some great visual artists but with 
the new default sound scheme in KDE 3.3 [4] the AFAIK first aural 
contribution by a professional artist to an open source project was done.  
Which is even more impressive if you know any sound workers personally and 
how picky they are about their sounds ;-)

Cheers,
Malte

[1] http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=kontact+splash
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.pim/10706
[3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.pim/10012
[4] http://artemio.net/projects/kdevibes/vibes/kde3.3/

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