If anyone hasn't tried googles picasa its a good place to store and organize wallpaper. Although flickr may work just as well.
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:00 AM, <ubuntu-art-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com> wrote: > Send ubuntu-art mailing list submissions to > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ubuntu-art-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ubuntu-art-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-art digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: hello (D?vid Horv?th) > 2. Re: hello (Thorsten Wilms) > 3. Re: hello ( Boudhayan Gupta) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:18:25 +0200 > From: D?vid Horv?th <chronos....@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] hello > To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork <ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com> > Message-ID: > <5194de740910070018r39c409b3xcb49261cca0ff...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I see that we are gathering :) I'm in the game too! I suppose to be a > programmer. > > We need a coordinator. Anyone? > > Cheers, > David from Hungary > > 2009/10/7 Raymond O'Brien <r...@obakk.com> > > > Hello, > > > > I am multimedia designer in Ireland and would be interested in > > offering any help i can here. > > > > Raymond O'Brien > > > > > > -- > > ubuntu-art mailing list > > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/attachments/20091007/22849359/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:20:25 +0200 > From: Thorsten Wilms <t...@freenet.de> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] hello > To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: <1254903625.4220.53.ca...@localhost.localdomain> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:18 +0200, D?vid Horv?th 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/ > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:34:19 +0530 > From: " Boudhayan Gupta" <bg13....@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] hello > To: "Discussion on Ubuntu artwork" <ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com> > Message-ID: <hxrs45fmzdgf.hlmxd...@smtp.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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, D?vid Horv?th 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 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/attachments/20091007/03d30f7c/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > > > End of ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 52, Issue 7 > ***************************************** >
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