Right, that's the usual assumption. I've been trying to fill the
place in between for a number of years to little success. I'm a
designer that uses OS X and adobe products so I don't have much use
for open source applications, even design related apps, because the
quality is so low (this is based on my own testing and critiquing).
I've still attempted to make opensource as beautiful as I can to
varying success. My efforts are often thwarted by the very developers
I try to help, because as you say, most just opt to use a developer
with what you refer to as "talent" and very few use a contracted
designer, but some projects have actually hired and payed me for work.
You can see some of the work I've contributed on gnome-look.org, just
look up my name. Take a look at the pidgin logo and the compiz fusion
logo I made, I'm really happy how those turned out. I unfortunately
didn't win the FreeBSD logo contest awhile back, as I think my entry
was a better choice, it still got 4th place though and my Lighttpd
logo obviously won the competition.
Projects I've worked with are the Mirth project (logo), Mixxx.org
(logo), Sojourner Linux (logo), Lighttpd (logo), Compiz/Beryl (didn't
win), PC-BSD (I made a number of design submissions that never got
implemented, BSD Foundation (some branding work), and much much more.
I actually have a project I've never published where I redid a huge
number of logos for opensource OSes. I think soon I'll just put it
out into the ether.
I don't use any of this software but I believe in open source, I want
it to succeed, so I do what I can even though developers often keep my
hands firmly tied behind my back. I'm actually a creative director so
it's a shame that more people don't take advantage of the services I
offer for free. It's been a frustrating career in the opensource
world for me so I've nearly given up entirely. I've even tried to
join a number of foundations to head up a design/interaction team, but
there haven't been any takers.
If you ask me what keeps the opensource world back from total takeover
I could point you to a number of things that I've written about. But
for now I remain a bit in the shadow of the opensource scene, not many
people know me or my work. Still I subscribe to a number of mailing
lists and chime in from time to time. :)
All the best,
Paul aka openartist
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Jose Galvez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> so you don't use lighttp but you made their logo? how does that work, I
> would have assumed that the logo would have been made by either a user with
> graphics talent or a contracted graphics designer.
>
> Paul Bloch wrote:
>
> Well, I don't use it but I made the logo. :)
>
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Jose Galvez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Just started playing around with lighttpd and I'm trying to figure out how
> to get it to serve my static content while letting pylons do the fun
> stuff. Here is a copy of my config. This works but I wanted to see how
> others are using lighttpd.
>
>
> # set up folders and files to serve with lighttpd
> static_folders = "^/img/|^/static|^/static2"
>
> hidden_static_folders = "^/css"
>
> static_pages = "\.html|\.jpg|\.png|\.gif"
>
> # enable dir listing for some folders
> $HTTP["url"] =~ static_folders {
> dir-listing.activate = "enable"
> }
>
> # make sure dirlisting stays off for some folders
> $HTTP["url"] =~ hidden_static_folders {
> dir-listing.activate = "disable"
> }
>
>
> # if its not static content let pylons handle the request
> $HTTP["url"] !~ static_folders + "|" + hidden_static_folders + "|" +
> static_pages {
> proxy.server = ( "" => (
> ("host"=>"127.0.0.1",
> "port"=>5000)
> )
> )
> }
>
>
>
> Jose
>
>
>
>
> >
>
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