Dear Thorsten, I can help with the wallpaper website, but I need some hosting space which should be able to run WordPress 2.8. Could you manage some?
Yours, Boudhayan Gupta +91 97483 78224 Sent from my Nokia(R) 9300i Communicator(TM) _____ Original message _____ Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] hello Author: Thorsten Wilms <t...@freenet.de> Date: 07th October 2009 1:50:25 PM On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:18 +0200, Dávid Horváth wrote: > We need a coordinator. Anyone? Well, lets start with some information :) You all should have a look at our wiki, if you haven't already: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork The next release is scheduled for the 29th of October, so it doesn't make any sense to start something new for it. It's very early in the game for the next cycle, 10.04: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule It's very important that you understand that the community does not create the default artwork. There have been exceptions regarding the wallpaper, but I wouldn't count on that happening again. There's a design team at Canonical. Friendly and at least in part very approachable people, but it still is a bit like a black box. Often all we get to see are the final decisions at the very end of the process, the reasoning, the strategy remaining somewhat of a mystery. So what do we get to do? Create and package themes. It's best I leave it to those actually involved to tell you more about it. Create wallpapers. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Backgrounds For earlier cycles, everyone who felt like it would add a separate page to the wiki for their wallpapers. This time it was tightly organized, only to run into a nasty issue with wiki engine: If you request too many "items" in quick succession, the wiki refuses to deliver. It's called a "surge protection". That means that on pages with many images, not all will load. If you then try to view additional images, the wiki answers with a warning to slow down. It's a reported issue. Entirely new in this cycle was using Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/pool/ A selection from these went into http://www.flickr.com/groups/1188...@n24/ My recommendation: Do not even allow wallpaper submissions on the wiki for the Lucid Lynx cycle. The wiki just doesn't work for this and it's not fair to contributors to let them add stuff that will be ignored, anyway. Plus any wallpaper showing up there would encourage others to add theirs. Instead point to Flickr (if no one can offer an alternative). So far I got no feedback on this at all. In case some of you would be interested in creating a web-service: having a site where you can upload wallpapers (and similar artwork), with automatic thumbnail generation, nested comments and maybe even versioning would rock ;) The countdown banners have been mentioned. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/KarmicCountdownBanners It will be a while until the call for 10.04 banners ... There's an entirely community driven and well organized project working on an icon theme: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/BreatheIconSet Note that there are many open-source projects that could benefit from some help with artwork, interaction design and obviously programming, if you don't find something here. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
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