Re: Just an FYI concerning the beta artwork

2009-03-16 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Nicu Buculei nicu_fed...@nicubunu.ro wrote: We played a bit with Cambridge cultural elements but it didn't get further than some preliminary concepts (and of course someone complained about a visible church). I think cultural references are good and personally

Re: new direction for the wallpaper

2009-03-16 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2009/3/16 Máirín Duffy mai...@linuxgrrl.com: Okay great. So all I need to do is send unintentionally offensive funny emails to start a controversy, and suddenly the feedback will pour in. I'm not sure I'm going to be up for that again, though. That sounds like a job for me. -jef

Just an FYI concerning the beta artwork

2009-03-14 Thread Jeff Spaleta
I hadn't seen anyone else bring this perspective up concerning the wallpaper in the beta and I thought it deserved attention for your consideration as a group. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2009-March/msg00147.html Seems to me whoever chose the background that was introduced

Re: Just an FYI concerning the beta artwork

2009-03-14 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2009/3/14 Martin Sourada martin.sour...@gmail.com: Hm... I don't see a valid reasoning there. I'm delibrately not trying to make a statement as to validity of the reasoning about the objection. In fact, I might even question the idea that reasoning is ever a part of an emotional response. I'm

Re: Fedora 10's official Default theme

2008-09-25 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Michael Beckwith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solar Now that Solar is selected. I would like to humbly suggest that we attempt to make a connection in our F10 release press materials to the International Heliophysical Year events. Nothing overly science geeked out,

Re: R: Criteria for theme selection

2008-09-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2008/9/9 María Leandro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: at least 30% or 20% should be a community decision... right? Here's my view, as a Board member. I consider the multiple rounds of discussion over the themes as a prolonged community decision. The final artwork decision is a culminating event in a

Re: [RFE]...

2008-04-01 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it would be *trivial* for the Art team to either resurrect those submission or gather a number of new ones (it seems our team grew in number since then), the real requirement would be for the desktop guys to make

Re: Applying to the Art group in the Accounts System

2008-03-12 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2008/3/12 Frank Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At the moment, would fail the test, as am not up the speed with the F8 graphics apps, was reared in the other county, the closed one. I think that's exactly the point. Using a minor design task as a way to mentor a new person in how to do things.

Re: Applying to the Art group in the Accounts System

2008-03-12 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Michael Beckwith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll second the mandatory self-introduction idea. Requiring a minor task like a hackergotchi or something from the design queue will end up potentially running those areas dry and then someone who wants to get

Re: Applying to the Art group in the Accounts System

2008-03-12 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the workflow should be much simpler... creating a hackergotchi I was thinking more along the lines of banners. Since I sort of expect hackergotchi opportunities to run dry quickly. Unless of course, they are making

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-29 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Camilo Mesias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=32132l=92bedid=656174051 I does my heart good seeing the open Fedora process encouraging people to go out and burn stuff producing potentially toxic fumes. The color of the molten goo

Re: Marketing Collateral Design Request

2008-02-28 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:58 AM, John Babich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fedora Sparkling Water - pure and unencumbered - close to the source Jefrey likeor maybe I'm just gassy...hard to tell. Perhaps Fedora Spring Water is a better namebut i like the tagline.. a lot. We could design

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-27 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2008/2/27 Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Attached a sketch of what I mean. I do not like the blood. If we could give to rawhide or test release desktopsthat'd be great. I totally get what you are trying to do with the flame. Can you do the flame so that its burning just the left side of

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-27 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about this? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9Themes/Waves#head-7b831bee9cb2600c56c61ad7745210f7f69dcfe4 That's real close.The halo effect is interesting. Basically what you need to try for is making it

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-27 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about this? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9Themes/Waves#head-7b831bee9cb2600c56c61ad7745210f7f69dcfe4 That's real close

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-27 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I moved the one on the right to cling along the edge of one of the faces? closer still. The one you moved... the bright blue hot spot lines needs to line up along the edge of that face a little better..bright blue on the

Re: [Round 3]Shoowa theme variation update

2008-02-27 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2008/2/27 Luya Tshimbalanga [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just did some update: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9Themes/Shoowa wow... that's pretty interesting. You found a way to get the yellow and the blues to look pretty good together to me. -jef

Re: Fedora India Wallpaper

2008-02-26 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Kushal Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just made this , my first wallpaper. http://kushaldas.in/india3.png You know what would be...keen Overlaying the client density map of India from the mirrorlist map with what you have there... to make an

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-26 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been meaning to play with the sulphur itself to add a blue glow. Maybe the supporting artwork could have more blue, maybe with grey accents to match, but the wallpaper would be grey? burning sulfur. From

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-26 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well here's my first attempt: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9Themes/Waves#head-1096218c57cd3645e55b094661dd3f7208924a9b Had another idea to make the flames a bigger part of the concept, hopefully i'll get a

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-24 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Camilo Mesias It's really cool stuff to play with - if you drop the melted sulfur into cold water it turns into a moldable goo Fedora Sulfur when hot is moldable goo there's a compelling allegory here somewhere. -jef

Re: [Round 3] Shoowa theme update

2008-02-23 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2008/2/23 Martin Sourada [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For me the diamonds looks completely out of place... It's too distracting. As for which of those wallpapers I like best, it's 3.1 closely followed by 3.1c. I basically agree with this but I'll be more specific. I really like in 3.1c how the

Re: [F9 Theme] Shoowa update

2008-02-22 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2008/2/21 Luya Tshimbalanga [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The theme is now updated for the round 3 reflecting feedback from Nicu blog. The illustration was done on Portable Inkscape having just completed class. I will bring some refinement once I will get home. Okay I understand why there's yellow in

Re: (no subject)

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2008/2/15 Brandon Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone have any fedora t-shirts on cafepress? You might want to catch up with people in the Fedora Store SIG. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store -jef ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list

Re: [Round 2]Shoowa Theme update

2008-02-12 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Feb 11, 2008 10:53 PM, Luya Tshimbalanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9Themes/Shoowa Almost... the 2nd to last one almost has the very narrrow depth of field feeling that I'm looking for, but the objects at the far right needs to be sharper...they need to

Re: [Round 2]Shoowa Theme update

2008-02-11 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Feb 10, 2008 11:34 PM, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. But I find the gradient too strong, it goes from light blue to white, that white hurts my eyes, I think it should go to a lighter blue. needs...more...purple! What i think would be interesting as a change...would be

Re: Pokemon theme update

2008-02-11 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Feb 11, 2008 3:48 AM, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I also have a feeling the pokemon may be troublesome) I gauruntee it. Even the 'ball' graphic itself might be a problem. It's really unfortunate that Mola persists with this. The effort being put forth is out of touch with the

Re: Fedora Mascot Idea....

2008-02-08 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Feb 8, 2008 12:15 AM, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A interesting idea but not one I like. A variation of the Fedora logo would have the same protections as the logo itself and leads to the same issues we are trying to avoid by suggesting the use of a mascot that lends itself to

Re: new tshirts

2008-02-04 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Feb 3, 2008 10:48 PM, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was my own unauthorized modification. Feel free to beat me over my head with the logo usage guidelines :p and remove the submission if I was wrong. My idea was to provide a version for the cheapest possible printing, with just

Re: Transparency :)

2008-01-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 28, 2008 12:26 PM, Valent Turkovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't trying to be rude or disrespectfully to gnome or gnome developers. I was just wondering about gnome. Here's the problem with wondering aloud about gnome development on a list this is not about gnome development. You

Re: new tshirts

2008-01-30 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 29, 2008 12:52 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could there be a women's sized version of this as well as a men's sized? +1 ... and a baby onesy, that says Future Fedora Contributor -jefIf I had budget powers here is what I would do about t-shirts...make a set of special Fedora

Re: Help with the metaphor... [Fwd: And the F9 codename winner is...]

2008-01-29 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 28, 2008 1:18 AM, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Names So.. sulfer is the cure for what the ailments that werewolves suffer? ie F10 fixes problems in F9 -jef ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list

Re: Hi Fedora Art list!

2008-01-23 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 22, 2008 10:15 PM, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Spaleta wrote: fedoratv.com is up and running right now. Register an account, upload some svg's and png's... file bugs :- Which is the right place to file those bugs? I didn't manage to identify the correct component

Re: Hi Fedora Art list!

2008-01-22 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 22, 2008 7:52 AM, Colby Hoke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to a suggestion from Nicu Buculei, I've joined this list mostly out of interest in an Art Studio spin of Fedora. I've been working with gdk and jspaleta on getting a Fedora repo-ready version of Kino out there for people to

Re: Hi Fedora Art list!

2008-01-22 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 22, 2008 9:13 AM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any plans to communicate what Fedora TV actually is to people who didn't go to fudcon in a scalable way? That's what I'm trying to do in this thread! fedoratv is a codebase is pretty rough around the edges. I believe greg

Re: Hi Fedora Art list!

2008-01-22 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 22, 2008 9:18 AM, Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 22, 2008 9:13 AM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any plans to communicate what Fedora TV actually is to people who didn't go to fudcon in a scalable way? That's what I'm trying to do in this thread

Re: Hi Fedora Art list!

2008-01-22 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 22, 2008 9:06 AM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason I ask is that this group in particular has been in great need of a better solution for sharing images and their sources other than our wiki which is slow and unreliable. Is there somewhere I can go to find out more about

Re: Hi Fedora Art list!

2008-01-22 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 22, 2008 9:02 AM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Fedora TV only for video? It's what I care about...but i think its for images as well. Just depends on what's actually working :- -jef ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list

Re: Hi Fedora Art list!

2008-01-22 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 22, 2008 9:44 AM, Colby Hoke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll approve it! Right now we have it set up so that only a handful of people can approve content - that's Greg and myself, so far - I think. I forgot about that. But there is still a bug in there in relation to My Stuff display. I

Re: Hi Fedora Art list!

2008-01-22 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 22, 2008 9:23 AM, Jonathan Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we get together some kind of announcement/interview about this? I'm not sure if its time for that much attention. The interface is rough, real rough. I think I want to make damn sure that we are ready to community exactly

Re: Hi Fedora Art list!

2008-01-22 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 22, 2008 9:41 AM, Colby Hoke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FedoraTV is working for images - I'm trying to keep that as I think it's pretty important. I've uploaded a couple so far as tests. It's also supporting audio - I think that's just as important, Audio only content will be HUGE. Once

Re: Hi Fedora Art list!

2008-01-22 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 22, 2008 9:44 AM, Colby Hoke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll approve it! Right now we have it set up so that only a handful of people can approve content - that's Greg and myself, so far - I think. But, I check it pretty often, so start putting things up there - I'll keep up. If the

Re: Round 1

2008-01-13 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 10, 2008 12:53 AM, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you'll install a new system, you'll get a unique (smolt-system) id-number; maybe it is possible that that id-nummer is the code shown at your dsktop?! So everybody has his own unique Desktop wallpaper/theme and also

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-03 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 1, 2008 6:13 PM, Daniel Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe it would be beneficial to Fedora to stabilize the artwork in successive releases. IMO, radically changing the artwork each release detracts from giving Fedora a recognizable look and feel. I think having a distinguishing

Re: An Idea about branding the Firefox and Thunderbird apps for F9

2007-12-30 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Dec 30, 2007 8:19 AM, Rogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just toying around with the Splash![1] addon for mozilla apps and I believe we can leverage the same for branding the applications, via a custom Fedora centric splash screen. What do you folks think about it? First I very much

Re: Imagine

2007-12-20 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Dec 19, 2007 5:51 PM, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the picture, fwiw. Don't let Jeffs winter depression discourage you... Tomorrow is the solstice, after that I start gaining sunlight... seven glorious minutes a day. What exactly do you like about the picture? You have

Re: Imagine

2007-12-20 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Dec 20, 2007 11:55 AM, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dunno, specifically. Its just a nice picture that shows lots of things that people generally like: sun, grass, fresh air, energetic people... its missing something cuddly.. where's the puppy? where's love?! -jefbook your plane

Re: [F9 Artwork Proposal] Waves

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Dec 18, 2007 10:35 PM, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the best how this one look, BUT there is a compiz effect simulating water ripples, just imagine the redundancy of a ripple background and ripple effect on top of it. this thread reminds me. Did I ever show off my effort to

Re: Imagine

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Dec 19, 2007 1:10 PM, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's freedom. Here's what I see. I see people facing a way from me.. towards a cliff face blinded by sunlight. Are they jumping up and down? Or are they in the process of running away from me and towards the cliff..blinded

Re: Link for official F9 theme proposal

2007-12-16 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Dec 16, 2007 8:50 AM, Michael Beckwith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking perhaps gradually change the colors of the chain links. I was also thinking about having the shadows of the chains be the same color as the neutral background, while the midtones and highlights a couple shades

Re: Link for official F9 theme proposal

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Dec 12, 2007 3:44 AM, David Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I for one, really like what we have in Fedora 8 and I would like to suggest keeping and working on perfecting it instead of replacing the artwork every 6 months entirely. Without making a judgment as to the quality or

Re: [Fwd: [Inkscape-user] Fedora Package Maintainer]

2007-11-28 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Nov 28, 2007 9:14 AM, Michael Beckwith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Denis Leroy e-mail me off list and mentioned that he's no longer interested in maintaining the Fedora package of Inkscape. If there is any other Fedora packagers that are willing to pick it up, that'd be great. I'm not sure

Re: F9 Name Proposal

2007-11-24 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Nov 24, 2007 12:40 PM, Marek Mahut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the old habits can be always changed. The names of real people have really interesting trademark and copyright issues. I would really like to avoid the potential complication of having to license the use of a person's likeness

Re: F9 Name Proposal

2007-11-13 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Nov 13, 2007 8:32 AM, Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So we can for example just keep picking city names or flower names over and over again. err can not keep picking... ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http

Re: F9 Name Proposal

2007-11-13 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Nov 13, 2007 9:51 AM, Martin Sourada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Uroboros (though the word itself does not sound to me much nice) has some good connection to Fedora itself, as it symbolises infinity and unity, in words from wikipedia[1]: clever. -jef

Re: F9 Name Proposal

2007-11-12 Thread Jeff Spaleta
Unicorn, like a werewolf is a mythical creature. -jefand the best high school sports mascot everspaleta ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list

Re: F9 Name Proposal

2007-11-12 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Nov 12, 2007 10:54 AM, Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unicorn, like a werewolf is a mythical creature. -jefand the best high school sports mascot everspaleta Plus, unicorns give you a legitimate reason to use a purple-y color palette! And i think we can all agree that more purple

Re: Idea for future releases

2007-10-25 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On 10/24/07, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I planned to talk about this myself but wanted to wait a few weeks so we cool down after the release and start thinking forward. How about the feature outlined in F9 being multimedia/music? Would the art team perhaps accept Board level input

Re: Smolts.org needs a makeover!

2007-10-25 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On 10/25/07, Mike McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hadn't heard back, thought I'd send a reminder. If someone is willing to do the work, I'm up for a total re-design. Do we have a jobs bulletin board that is easily advertisable? If we are having a spike in web-design needs which is

Re: Idea for future releases

2007-10-24 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On 10/23/07, Michael Beckwith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I meant more in like this. For Fedora 9, all of the theme submissions follow a certain style of art, and then Fedora 10 does a different style. While I'm not against the idea of constraining submission within some artistic scoping early in

Help Wanted: Artistic World Map Projections

2007-10-17 Thread Jeff Spaleta
Anyone interested in producing artsy map projections to replace the map projection drawn by matplotlib in: http://jspaleta.fedorapeople.org/Fedora-World-Maps/clientmap.png Instead of having matplotlib draw the world map, I'd be interested in having an artistic svg of the world that I could

Re: Explaining Spins

2007-10-14 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On 10/14/07, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you mean? What clothes do Fedora contributors wear, Extrapolating from from personal experience togas made out of bedsheets. -jefthe last guy on the far right should be listening to an old-timey Victrola record player or perhaps the

Maps ahoy!

2007-10-05 Thread Jeff Spaleta
Okay I've been working with infrastructure to build some matplotlib based maps of interesting client stats. Here's an example: http://jspaleta.fedorapeople.org/Fedora-World-Maps/clientmap.png This isn't a mock-up this is the output of the python script verbatim. Stylist nightmare? Most

Re: Fedora 8 Buildup

2007-09-12 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On 9/12/07, Jonathan Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Fedora art spin? This is at best currently an experimental idea, and shouldn't be promoted as part of F8 build up as a deliverable. If you do talk about it at all, you should mention it in passing and call it an experimental Fedora derived

Re: Art Studio Strategy (was Re: Art Studio Spin?)

2007-09-12 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On 9/12/07, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: - Should we try to get something out as quickly as possible? Our first version will built strictly from components already in Fedora? If we took this approach would it be too late to make the F8 launch? (I imagine not?) You are too

Re: Art Studio Spin?

2007-09-07 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On 9/7/07, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, but those are Live CDs, so nothing is easily installable on them, Live images (CD,DVD,USB key whatever makes sense) to hand out, which can be installed to the harddrive via a desktop icon. Let me refine the question a little bit. My

Art Studio Spin?

2007-09-06 Thread Jeff Spaleta
So... now that the Fedora Electronics Lab is consumable from rawhide and is appearing on the torrent server I thought this would be a good time to ask. Is there interest in building a spin which is myopically focused on the art designer? Is the desktop oriented livecd good enough.. or is there