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

2007-09-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le jeudi 13 septembre 2007 à 08:38 +0300, Nicu Buculei a écrit : How about a F8 Art Studio with only components already in Fedora and a F9 Art Studio with *tons* of added goodies (fonts, photos, clipart, etc.) Please don't. Fedora is healthy because every interest group contributes to the

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

2007-09-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le jeudi 13 septembre 2007 à 08:38 +0300, Nicu Buculei a écrit : How about a F8 Art Studio with only components already in Fedora and a F9 Art Studio with *tons* of added goodies (fonts, photos, clipart, etc.) Please don't. Fedora is healthy because every interest

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

2007-09-13 Thread Martin Sourada
? ~m I'd add the Art Studio Spin on F9 feature list and try to make first try available for F9 test 1. I do believe it is too late to make it F8 spin. Martin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Fedora-art-list

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

2007-09-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Martin Sourada wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 23:50 +0200, Máirín Duffy 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

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

2007-09-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Martin Sourada wrote: My opinion: not. I think its better to release late but high quality spin then early half made one. That really depends on whether there is a lot more packages needed that are currently missing in Fedora and whether you message it as a

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

2007-09-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Nicu Buculei wrote: The missing packages are mostly content: fonts, brushes, clipart. I don't think anyone named yet an application needed but not available yet in Fedora. If there are such packages, I am willing to help in packaging them. Rahul

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

2007-09-12 Thread Máirín Duffy
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?) - Should we try to make it as polished as possible and not

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 Strategy (was Re: Art Studio Spin?)

2007-09-12 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jeff Spaleta wrote: 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

Re: Art Studio Spin?

2007-09-10 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: * Some (quite messy) notes towards a package manifeset: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ArtTeamProjects/FedoraArtStudio/PackageManifest Great. * I looked for potential fonts we could include. There are LOTS. Some are pretty neat. Most are not already in Fedora

Re: Art Studio Spin?

2007-09-10 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: And, yeah, I think there are a lot of value-add bits like fonts and brushes and the like that would make it really awesome. Essential? Necessary? No, but... I'd be interested in making a spin that is basically a dream Fedora for me :) I am not trying to rush you or

Re: Art Studio Spin?

2007-09-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirí­n Duffy wrote: And, yeah, I think there are a lot of value-add bits like fonts and brushes and the like that would make it really awesome. Essential? Necessary? No, but... I'd be interested in making a spin that is basically a dream Fedora for me :) I am not

Re: Art Studio Spin?

2007-09-09 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Jeff Spaleta wrote: 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 room for a yet more focused spin for the designer usage case? And if so, can it be done inside the existing Fedora repository space

Re: Art Studio Spin?

2007-09-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
in such context, it is the only external thing listed so far. All I said above is limited only to graphics, but an Art Studio Spin could as well include audio and video editors (not very useful for the codecs which can't be included on the Live CD) but it may have Audacity, Pitivi and more. -- nicu

Re: Art Studio Spin?

2007-09-07 Thread Máirín Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: Of course there are lots of small but cool little applications I forgot to list in the previous mail, like Agave of Fyre, but I think we are not yet at the stage to assembly the list of applications for such a spin. Why not?

Re: Art Studio Spin?

2007-09-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Steven Garrity wrote: Jeff Spaleta wrote: Is there interest in building a spin which is myopically focused on the art designer? As a professional web designer who uses Fedora as my primary web desktop, I don't see the need for such a variation. In my experience, designers end up using the

Re: Art Studio Spin?

2007-09-07 Thread Steven Garrity
Jeff Spaleta wrote: Is there interest in building a spin which is myopically focused on the art designer? As a professional web designer who uses Fedora as my primary web desktop, I don't see the need for such a variation. In my experience, designers end up using the same apps as the rest of

Re: Art Studio Spin?

2007-09-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
asked is there interest in building and nobody replied yet yes :p I think the Red Hat High Live CD package manifest would be a good start for an Art Studio spin: http://redhathigh.pbwiki.com/Media+Package+Manifests -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora

Re: Art Studio Spin?

2007-09-07 Thread Máirín Duffy
would be a good start for an Art Studio spin: http://redhathigh.pbwiki.com/Media+Package+Manifests ~m ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list

Re: Art Studio Spin?

2007-09-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Nicu Buculei wrote: - there are a few art applications using QT which may be useful: Scribus and Krita (I don't know if Krita can be installed without the rest of KOffice, fwiw, yes, yum install koffice-krita -- Rex ___ Fedora-art-list mailing

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

Re: Art Studio Spin?

2007-09-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Nicu Buculei wrote: Personally I am *not* directly interested in such a spin, as the applications I use currently are included on the desktop spin (on top of that, I am also not very fond of the direction proposed by that spin and I will stay with the base release) but I see a use case: Of

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