Re: [ubuntu-art] Updating homepage
On 28 April 2011 11:37, Priya Ranjan Singh m...@priyaranjan.net wrote: Ubuntu Natty has released No. It hasn't. Al. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Looking forwards not back.
I know we kinda fell apart through the last cycle. Well these things happen. Looking forwards I would like to suggest this: 1. A regular meeting, every so often during the oneiric cycle. 2. We move away from wallpaper, interface artwork, into more of the promo artwork -- Saleel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Looking forwards not back.
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: This needs the help of the community council to sort out first. Otherwise there will always be intense mistrust from members who abide the code of conduct and those who don't. Martin, Fine, we need a new team leader as well. I don't want to miss another cycle. I hate being subscribed here and not feeling useful. Until we get the council to sort it all out, lets have a discussion about what we want to do with this group. Lets be proactive. Nothing binding. just reestablish contact, and brainstorm a little. Instead of relying on what kinds of skillset we currently have lets try to figure out what skillsets we want/need to attract. We have a small window before uds, so that if there is any discussion at uds it wont have to start from scratch. -- Saleel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Updating homepage
Back to topic... Ubuntu start page has numerous bugs, like lack of localization support, no session restore button, ugly 404 error if you start firefox with search plugin set to sites other than Google or Yahoo etc. Nobody seems to care. I personally had a bad experience with having my fixes for it accepted in the package, but it could be my fault. AFAIK you should contact Ubuntu Mozilla Team about these issues, this list deals mostly with artwork. -- shnatsel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Looking forwards not back.
Fine, we need a new team leader as well. I don't want to miss another cycle. I hate being subscribed here and not feeling useful. +1 In Elementary, DanRabbit is a leader that does awesome things which inspire other people. He seems to be a good coordinator too. As a result, everyone is extremely productive. I wish we had something similar in this team. Elementary currently faces a different problem - bringing new contributors, but that's another story. We need more coordination as well. Just look at the EPIC FAIL of Free Culture Showcase during the Natty cycle. Look at http://design.canonical.com/2011/01/free-culture-showcase/ announcing that the submitted works should be about freedom, and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase that doesn't mention anything about that, and my commenthttp://design.canonical.com/2011/01/free-culture-showcase/comment-page-1/#comment-12899pointing this out simply ignored. Look at the countdown banners being advised to not over-emphasize narwhal graphics, and then the community wallpaper selection... Finally, the infamous http://www.flickr.com/groups/uawt-10-0/pool/ contains pieces of art that make Ubuntu's default wallpaper fade in comparison. But look what was picked for inclusion in the distro! (I personally want to award everybody who didn't give up after THAT with an Ubuntu Faith Award and make a low bow to each them). Community is the power that sets Ubuntu apart from everything else - apple, M$, other distros, whatever. Until Canonical recognize Ubuntu's creative community as a power and learn to use it, they will never have better artwork than M$ or Apple just because their resources are very limited in comparison with those multi-billion corporations. The problem is not only inside this team IMO.* If anybody would want to get good artwork from the community, not to put a check in the TODO list, nobody would care what flickr group it's submitted to. *Neither they would be so thoughtless in selecting community wallpapers, to the point where the whole thing seems like another checkbox in a TODO. Neither would they so poorly maintain the info intended to direct community contributions (examples above). Damn, Canonical needs to finally realize that creative community is an enormous power that they can use [almost] for free if they just want to! I understand the Design Team consists of quite busy designers with tons of their own work and interacting with the community is their spare-time hobby at best. They don't have any experience or skills of interacting with a community, and that's absolutely OK because they're not intended to. But somebody has to do it if they want to get anything from the community at all, right? BTW, a nice post on the topic: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/design-boost/ Respectfully Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Looking forwards not back.
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 12:39 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: Fine, we need a new team leader as well. I don't want to miss another cycle. I hate being subscribed here and not feeling useful. Until we get the council to sort it all out, lets have a discussion about what we want to do with this group. Lets be proactive. Will you be leader? Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Looking forwards not back.
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 15:22 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 12:39 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: Fine, we need a new team leader as well. I don't want to miss another cycle. I hate being subscribed here and not feeling useful. Until we get the council to sort it all out, lets have a discussion about what we want to do with this group. Lets be proactive. Will you be leader? Martin, I'd +1 Saleel if he'd want to lead .. -- Cheers, Vish -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
