Greetings I'd just like to suggest that GIMP develop a program of engagement with artists along the lines of what the Blender Foundation are doing with their open movie projects: http://www.blender.org/features/projects/
The open movie's are both a chance to showcase the beautiful work that can be done with Blender, and a way to focus development on new features, and harvest feedback from users about ways the UX can be improved. >From reading the summaries at the link above, it seems that each project involved setting some ambitious goals for what the software needed to be able to do, and working with an arts organisation to set an artistic challenge. The resulting artwork is then heavily promoted, as a way of bringing attention to the software and its capabilities, and copies can be sold or used as rewards in crowdfunding campaigns. Just a thought. -- Danyl Strype Community Developer Disintermedia.net.nz/strype "Geeks are those who partake in our culture." - .ISOcrates "Voting... is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a dessicated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagra of similar opinions, and convert them into - what else? - another piece of news. Thus, we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing." - Neil Postman, 'Amusing Ourselves To Death' _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
