Re: [ubuntu-art] A simple Ubuntu Wallpaper
Isn't it on already? On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 15:55 +1100, Jackson Isted wrote: When is the contest on? -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] A simple Ubuntu Wallpaper
Hey Daniel, Looks great, will you be submitting it to the wallpaper contest? Best Regards, Martin Owens On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 12:48 -0800, i-Daniel wrote: Hello guys, since i'm new on ubuntu art community and i made just one simple wallpaper [ With effects no Effects ] for now. But i will come with more. Waiting for your replies. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Web Art
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 23:52 -0400, Dub wrote: I doubt it, that's not our job that's the staff at Canonicals. There are some things that Canonical doesn't want the community to do. Things like design on secrete deals with hardware makers and acting as legal council. But in most other regards they're quite open to interoperability. For any practice, there is the LoCo Portal [1] and Summit projects for anyone who wants to get right into it. Ideas can be carried back to the main Ubuntu website or as noted, you can talk to the people who do the main Ubuntu website. [1] https://launchpad.net/loco-team-portal Best Regards, Martin Owens -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Hello!
Hey Chad, Great to hear from you and that you are enthused and ready to go. We're currently chatting in #ubuntu-design on freenode about doing user interface and other design projects, please join us and get involved. That also goes for everyone else lurking on the ubuntu-art mailing list! Best Regards, Martin Owens On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 11:21 -0800, Chad Linton wrote: I do some work with user interaction, design, and a limited amount of graphic design. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Just joined
Hey Calcmandan, Welcome to the Ubuntu-Art group, it's great to have you. more below... On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 13:05 -0700, calcmandan wrote: I'd like to assist with the art side of things. I've done a bit of coding in the past, but I'm more fluid with graphics than anything. The last few days, I've been reading up on canonical standards and such but there's still plenty for me to read. Yes, you should have a look at the design website which contains quite a few documents and resources for the standards and logos: http://design.canonical.com/ And a good place to upload your work: http://spreadubuntu.org/ Best Regards, Martin Owens -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] New member
Welcome Joel, It's great to have you here. Are you mainly in the area of design and production (html/php) or can you do drawing art as well? What kinds of things would you like to help with? Do you know any python? PLaces like the loco directory need more design help and general help, there are also lots of small pieces that could do with some art/design attention. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 01:17 -0500, Joel Grissom wrote: Anyhow, I am a web designer who is learning PHP and I work on Gimp as well as the Adobe creative suite. I just finished my Master of Technology, Graphic Information Technology in August at Arizona State University. I moved to Houston, TX shortly after that, and I am ready to contribute to the Ubuntu Art Project. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpapers in 11.10
Hey Ross, I'm not trolling you; I'm sincerely interested in you making great art and I will share my hard won wisdom[1] with anybody on the mailing list when I feel it might be useful. The core thing about art is that you can't be horribly hurt by honest critique and blame the culture of the community. We can't always be fluffy bunnies handing out meaningless platitudes; that's the way to never get better as a community. I'm sorry you were hurt by the critique. Martin[2], [1] For what little of it there is ;-) [2] Is not a city type is a person class. On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 09:44 +0200, ross richards wrote: Urgh, this is such a troll.. Seems a very closed circle of friends, not very nice at all here.. No ping back as to my art, no mention if it's good, hell i didn't even mind if it was totally wrong and crap, but to have no feedback, is not the way to go. I have been working 73 or more hours on a set of papers for ya, but i don't think i'm gonna continue. Count me out, i'm not flaming ya, i'm just bored with you city types. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpapers in 11.10
Wallpapers probably shouldn't have the Ubuntu logo or Ubuntu name. On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 09:36 +0100, Iain Farrell wrote: not least because it doesn't feature the proper Circle of friends or logo -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpapers in 11.10
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 17:30 +0100, Iain Farrell wrote: There isn't really a theme other than great photography OK, Considering non-photographers were treat badly for the wallpaper competitions of the past, it's good to know that we're not being strung along this time round and you're only interested in photographs. Flickr is great for that. Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] (no subject)
On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 20:25 -0700, Mr Mozee wrote: I cant understand how someone can get involved with this art ubuntu project yet! Hang out Talk about art Respond to requests from other teams Art! Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Introduction
On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 23:59 +0530, Prateek Jadhwani wrote: h...so wht kinda Work we are talkin about... Committing patches to your favorite graphics package? :-P -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Community wallpaper contest - Re: Looking forwards not back.
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 20:33 -0400, John Baer wrote: A suggestion I would make to the group is not include images other than the default and point users to an online site for images. With appropriate deb packaging and use of categorization strategies it would have been possible to include the wallpapers into the list without having them actually installed. Vish, if you can find out what the strength of the .desktop file categorization project is, we might be able to use it for backgrounds. 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 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] Introduction
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 16:14 -0400, CPS wrote: Hi there. I'm Cassandra. I found out that Ubuntu needs artists to make icons, etc., and decided to try and help out. I've checked the tasks that need doing on the wiki, and am wondering how much programming knowledge I will need to help out here. I'm mostly a graphics person, interested in submitting things like theme artwork and icons. Hey Cassandra, Thanks for coming to help :-) There are lots of things to do, for icons I think the best place is to go to the Tango project (for gnome icons) and to the specific project for program icons. There is lots of art required for posters, flyers and such. Let us know what kind of media you can do in that regard. Everything else is pretty much up to you and other groups who come here and ask for art from time to time. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 70, Issue 1
On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 12:22 +0530, kamakshaiah m wrote: Can some body tell me how to make an installable Wallpaper. For instance, If I have a image or picture which is worth a wallpaper, how can I make it available to our community. For that matter even about themes. Do I need to have any software knowledge. I am not a person from software, any body know please help me. You can also send me some material regarding that. Regards, Hello, I did some installable wallpapers, they're interesting and hard to make because you need to both install the wallpaper and modify all current user's configurations. You will probably need to know debian packaging quite well in order to navigate the mess that is wallpaper packaging. Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice
On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 16:37 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: Sure, a meeting to resolve this sounds good. Someone kindly take the initiative and set a datetime when John can attend. We tried that. It didn't work so well. I think we'd need personal attention from the CC. As an Ubuntu team our communal authority is the Code of Conduct and the Community Council. Jono and Ivanka are great people to go to for advice and they will help, but they're not the right people if they are the only people to get involved. Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Where is the Love?
On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 08:59 -0500, John Baer wrote: As I am not aware I have prevented anyone from doing as they wish - what changes? It's true, you do support and encourage anarchy. You don't prevent people from being individuals; instead you prevent them being a team. And that is the crux of the problem John, I'd dearly love you to be a part of the team, but your actions have shown that you are duplicitous and untrustworthy when it comes to forming social bonds. My desire has always been to encourage participation. If a member desires to assume leadership start being a leader as there is no value in the assigning of blame and the complaining of what could have been. As we know from the CoC, taking leadership is about being decisive and considerate of everyone. This position requires the most amazing social skills in order to listen and understand all people, even people that don't personally agree. Taking leadership by doing random things in random ways without talking to anyone isn't leadership. It's awesome for an individual, but it's unhealthy for a team when those things conflict with other team members; where your resolution is based on ignoring and continuing to misrepresent. If I am truly the problem teach me and help me understand how I can do better. Find the love as I assume members participate to add value to Ubuntu and the greater community. There is no value in a rant or flame. The first aim would be to agree that you are not the Ubuntu ArtWork Team, you don't represent the collected views of the team and are not good at forming a consensus. If you want to do something under the banner of the ArtWork Team, you would contact the leadership and consult prior to action. This way you can give a full account and at least some dialectic can take place. Of course you're free to do anything you like outside of the Ubuntu ArtWork Team banner, just use your own name and make it clear that no authority has sanctioned you or even agreed that what you're doing is sane. Misuse of the ArtWork Teams name is the up-most important issue for you to take care of. You are not the leader and do not speak on behalf of the team, the team is not anarchistic and even if the people _are_ autonomous; the team name must not be free for all chaos and you must not use it without permission. If the driver for all of this is the Flickr group General Illustrations ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/uawt-10-0/pool/ ), what is the problem? You did it without asking and then said it was official. Causing chaos and mistrust. From where I sit it seems to be working and adding value. You are adding one mans value while destroying the entire team. That's not productive in the grand scheme of things. Your chaos is locally productive and globally disruptive. If this is going to be a problem I am sure ***Iain would have contacted me long ago. I'm not sure why you think he would know, or care to check that people were being directed to submit art to random places online with the mistaken promise that they would be judged. I firmly believe Ubuntu and the greater community will appreciate the love. Please, consider taking a year or two break. Enough time for us to get a team leadership founded and the technical roots growing. Then we can take your submissions and enthusiasm and not have it wilt the social foundations before they've had time to set. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] IMPORTANT : Natty illustration wallpaper submissions group
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 08:50 -0500, John Baer wrote: My assumption is you share the same role as the rest of us - Artwork Team member. Nah, Vish is supreme leader of all Artdom, we elected him last night in a rigged ballet. Seriously John, that high-horse of yours is looking rickety. If you want to have your own group of artists, that's fine. But don't pretend that art submitted in one unofficial-baer-place is tantamount to submitting to a blessed-by-the-community-place. You remember the community right? It's that collective of people that talk about issues, come to a consensus and then collectively push for the consensus forward, even if it ended up being different to what any one personal member thought. So far you've done all you can to poison this group's ability to make consensus. This is not how communities are run and I ask you again to step down from the group. Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Acting first
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 21:19 +0300, Сергей wrote: You know, John is not the only person on this list who acts first and discusses later. And I think we ALL should be more collaborative. Owl was created way in the past as a trial to see if cchost could offer us the same functions that are enjoyed by the Debian team and their cchost deployment. Because it's php based(1) and because of various technical challenges(2), it could never be an official site. When discussing this issue at UDS with the majority of Art team members and Canonical design people it was apparent that it wasn't suitable; if it was useful for a stop gap it could be used for this cycle while we worked out our tools. It is not just a lack of leadership that hurts this team, but a complete lack of technical tools with which to base a team on. It's quite clear that flickr, like deviantArt, is not suitable as a base of operations for all we need to do and constantly sorting between the ubuntu wiki and these external image caches isn't effective. And I think it's the rejection of flickr technologically is what has Baer behaving so horrendously. But even that, with humility, or sense of friendship could have been worked on and we could have gotten a team leadership together which included him. That isn't happening now. Best Regards, Martin Owens (1) Canonical doesn't allow php websites on their servers, too insecure. (2) We don't have any php developers and the site's kindly donated machine moved from 8.04 to 10.04 and php4 to php5. That crippled the whole functionality of it and it was abandoned. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Goodbye
Thanks for all your work thorwil, On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 18:40 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: Our combined inability or unwillingness to deal with repeated misrepresentations and incredible ignorance from one member pisses me off to no end and spoils the last bit of fun. I understand, I've reduced my participation because of the same member. This team isn't worth being involved with any more because it's a team that only exists to serve one member; a member who will distort, lie and outright misrepresent in order to bully the consensus so things are done his way. The only way to recover will probably be to make a new team without him. With him explicitly banned from entry. Unfortunately, we've tried everything else. Maybe in the future we'll be able to pick up the pieces. Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Art Request: Install On Ubuntu
Hey Guys, There is a request to put together a short guide for FOSS Projects and Canonical's ISVs* to give an explanation and some examples of how best to show on their websites that you can install their software on Ubuntu. The plan is to show as a primary link an apt:// url and then to gracefully degrade to a deb link or other download if that fails. What the project needs for art is a set of default, nice looking buttons in a various sizes: 2^, 1.5x1, 2x1 and 1x2 aprox. These would need to be SVG based so they could be resized and basically say Install on Ubuntu Now, it's your choice if you want scroll over effects. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/InstallOnUbuntu If you'd like to help, please add your design this page. Make sure you edit the page and add in your svg files for download. The graphics will eventually go into the draft documentation and hopefully made available to projects. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Art Request: Install On Ubuntu
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 15:00 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: issues, kerning for example. svg's need to be designed as some base size. For issues of kerning, take 1 unit to be 150px. So 150x150, 150x225, 150x300 and 300x150 Add that into the wiki if you think it's important info. But if you're going to do the art, then keep it to yourself and just add your images in. Thanks guys :-) Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Icon for LibreCAD (future CAD program in Edubuntu/Ubuntu)
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 09:26 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: It's sad this is being framed as a contest. Thorsten, the contest framing is why I only conceptualized and threw that up. It's not worth doing more than adding to ideas and then getting on with something else. Not to say that there isn't a value in lots of people putting ideas into a hat. It's just expecting finished results from each singular entries I have an issue with. Besides, some people like to make lines, some people like to make shades. Be a shame if they were competing against each other ;-) Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 16:32 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: Drawing may be too general of a word, too many definitions in English; Depicting Freedom(?) Drawing is fine, in English it's the context it's involved in. So drawing in freedom is different to the drawing of freedom etc. Many words like 'set' have lots of definitions and yet are still usable. Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground Explained
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 13:46 -0800, graham wrote: Congratulations on your creativity. I use to do a lot of this when I was doing graphic design/technical writing and would have loved to have had such a script. Interestingly, the Ubuntu Manual team last year developed a tool called 'quickshot' that allowed the automation of screenshots so that many screenshots could be taken in a set of languages based on a set task list downloaded from a central webserver. http://ubuntu-manual.org/quickshot Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Icon for LibreCAD (future CAD program in Edubuntu/Ubuntu)
My simple concept: http://imagebin.org/133639 Not finished. Anyone else is free to draw on it. Martin, On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 17:54 -0500, Scott Howard wrote: Hello artists, QCad is a very popular GPL CAD program in Debian and Ubuntu. However, upstream has not released a new version in a while, and will be removed from Debian after squeeze. A new fork of the project, LibreCAD has started. They have already ported QCad to qt4 and implemented many community patches that the original upstream did not have the resources to test and implement. The Edubuntu team is currently working on getting LibreCAD included in natty. The package is working, but we are lacking a desktop icon and good splash screen. www.librecad.org is running a design contest for their logos. Information is on their site. We're looking for a standard freedesktop.org icon (.svg preferred). The package is available at ppa:showard314/librecad https://launchpad.net/~showard314/+archive/librecad/ Please take a look, and I'm sure upstream will welcome any contributions you can make! Thank you. Cheers, Scott -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Video Animations
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 09:23 +, Ivanka Majic wrote: How do you think we should go about attracting people like this? Is it tools we are missing or is it people with the right creative skills? People with the right skills not knowing the tools we have to make things like this _and_ them mostly hanging out in very different communities. I don't think we have any Ubuntu group or set of people on NewGrounds or vimeo etc. It's hard to know what these arts would like when we don't really know them. Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] 3 community wallpapers will be included in Natty
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 21:43 -0500, John Baer wrote: Thank you for your kind words but I am unaware of how this decision was made. How is any decision made? Someone comes along and makes the decision. You don't have to be anyone here to make a decision. I've always thought that was a flaw in our team organisational structure to be honest. Oh well, at least we get a guarantee of 3 illustrative wallpapers on the CD. I'd be nice to see the nod from the desktop team about the inclusion though to make sure it's all good. Martin -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] remove me
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 22:12 +, the.adventure.ish...@gmail.com wrote: Remove me Everyone must remove themselves using the list at the bottom of every email. for example: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Dates
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 12:51 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: We should standardize on one date format for the wiki. I propose ISO 8601, as it was created just for this reason. It's also great for sorting. It's also the international standard. I see no reason not to enforce the convention for clarity going forward. Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Icon for Ubuntu-bugsquad
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 12:20 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: But I have *never* seen the 192px image used anywhere. It's used on launchpad by the mugshots page: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-beginners/+mugshots It's also interestingly used by groundcontrol for branding if your team owns a branch of code. SVG is recommended to help with being able to fill various sizes. Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Forums need design assistance
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 12:16 -0700, Mike Basinger wrote: I used people advise for making forums icons from the pictograms, and made some changes. What do people think (www.mikesplanet.net/forums) I really like it, it's nice and bright and seems balanced. My only critique is that the icons are repetitive, even one more design would be handy. There are some nice pictograms here I found: http://spreadubuntu.org/en/material/site-button/ubuntu-pictograms-i-events Note: I filed a bug so we could do a search for spreadubuntu items with svg sources to make it easier to find good source material. Just put svg into the source extension box (not ideal) and limit the results to all those with svg sources. Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Posters for Zimbabwe
Hey Raymond, OK so there are no set requirements, but there are some good guidelines and examples: http://spreadubuntu.org/en/get-materials?field_media_value_many_to_one=Posterfield_purpose_value_many_to_one=Allfield_derivative_value_many_to_one=Allfield_version_value_many_to_one=All You can download the sources to a lot of those posters and simply edit them for your own use and redesign elements if you like. I like using svg as it's the most flexible source format but it's up to you if you like using Inkscape. Once you've completed your poster, please do post it to spread ubuntu to share the work. Also making sure to post your sources. Best of Luck, Martin Owens On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 15:33 +0200, Raymond Swart wrote: Hi my name is Raymond Swart and I would like to set myself a personal task of creating posters our loco team can use in Zimbabwe. I would like them to be as official as possible for a loco team. Please could I have guidelines/requirements etc so that I may begin work on this. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Need Help with Wallpaper Spec
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 15:51 -0800, j_baer wrote: * png file format Any reason svg wouldn't be allowed? Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Nucleus Meeting Confirmed
Hey everyone, The meeting will be on the 26th of November 2010 at 16:00 UTC, I've attached a cal file for everyone who can import them and have their calendar do the time zone magic. Attending Note: Vish said Kenneth Wimer was the artwork's team lead, he really needs to be at this meeting so we can decide a few things. Subject: This meeting is basically about the core group of artwork team members and making sure that everyone is approaching the group in the same way. All teams need a core nucleus of people in order to function as an anchor for the culture and functions the team performs. Agenda: * Leadership - I'd like there to be a resolution person/group who's job is not to decide the workings of the team, but to resolve issues and speak on behalf on the team outside. This may include formalising the team's nucleus people into a council. * Grievance - Everyone given an opportunity to explain if they have any outstanding issues, what they are and how they should be resolved. New leader(s) can make final call if consensus can not be reached. Quick Agenda - We're just going to reiterate over these items to make sure that everyone knows, agrees and is actively participating, It's very important that the core people are in strong agreement on the core activities of the group: * Promotion - What is considered good promotion and what is not. * Organisation - How we define what work needs to be done. * Submissions - How we are currently accepting submissions. Please make this meeting if you can. Best Regards, Martin Owens BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Ximian//NONSGML Evolution Calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:/freeassociation.sourceforge.net/Tzfile/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701107T02 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700314T02 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http: //www.google.com/calendar/feeds/doctormo%40gmail.com/private/full/r12cj567 tbel0vocp6nhc9v6rg DTSTAMP:20101116T145626Z DTSTART;TZID=/freeassociation.sourceforge.net/Tzfile/America/New_York: 20101126T11 DTEND;TZID=/freeassociation.sourceforge.net/Tzfile/America/New_York: 20101126T12 TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:2 SUMMARY:Nucleus ArtWork Team Meeting LOCATION:IRC #ubuntu-artwork DESCRIPTION:Discussing the core contributors\, organisation and general practice of the team. CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Community Survey
Hey J_Baer, Each time I've tried to paste you the link, we seem to miss each other on IRC. Here you go: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityReview/Sep2010/Art Although responses were very muted so there isn't much data. Martin, On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 18:33 -0800, j_baer wrote: Vish - Martin - Thorsten, There was talk at UDS about doing a community survey. Any thoughts on how we can make this happen? John -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Community-Survey-tp30210588p30210588.html Sent from the ubuntu-art mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Nucleous Meeting
Hey everyone, I'd like for the key parties of our community here to sit down in IRC and talk about some of the things that we should be all agreeing to. If you plan on dedicating time to organising and helping with the group please fill out this doodle poll specifying when you'll be available: http://doodle.com/fwkh25nm6p93tsip Please note that this shows UTC times, so please convert for your time zone on those dates. I'd like to especially invite j_baer, thorwil, vish and saleel to the meeting. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] LibreOffice project: request for contributors and mentoring
Hey David, Thanks for getting us an email about your needs. Does the TDF have a set of requirements and/or briefs to work from and a place to upload contributions? How wide would you like participation? We could throw this further than just this Ubuntu group if you like. Martin, On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 15:41 +0800, David Nelson wrote: I'm a member of the LibreOffice community. LibreOffice (LibO) is the office suite project of The Document Foundation (TDF), the community-driven organization that recently forked from the Oracle-managed OpenOffice.org project. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] screenshots.ubuntu.com
Sounds good. On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 12:54 +, Ivanka Majic wrote: This approach fits into my normal workflow so, from a purely selfish point of view I would like to pursue this approach. For now, I suggest posting the briefs to this artlist and then people can elect to subscribe. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Flickr is the best interim Image Repository
Felipe, You have to remove yourself from the list. We can't remove it for you. On each email you get you will see a link at the bottom which you can click to unsubscribe. Martin, On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 11:22 -0200, Felipe Fernandes Gonçalves wrote: -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork Light Wiki Mockup
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 08:21 -0700, j_baer wrote: In your opinion what would be a good repository for submissions now ( wiki, flickr, foopics ) ? ccHost, without a doubt that's the best tool for actual submissions for the immediate. The only thing that needs to be done is to move it's svg preview from imagemagick to rsvg-convert. The wiki can be used for all the documentation for the projects. I thought this was the agreed plan? (just to confirm, ivanka that's what we have in the blueprint?) Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork Light Wiki Mockup
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 19:32 -0700, j_baer wrote: I am willing to jump in and help but I am confused. Is ccHost going away to be replaced by django? ccHost is a stop gap so we can have submissions for this cycle. It's there, it's foss and it's not utterly terrible. For a good design we'll be following the outcome of the research we're going to do. Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork Light Wiki Mockup
Hey John,
On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 21:21 -0400, John Baer wrote:
I completed a proof of concept Artwork Wiki site based on the new
light theme [ not fully functional :) ].
So these processes and tools are the tools we're going to use for this
cycle to develop our design research on the art/design website task?
We may end up jettersoning the wiki altogether, we certainly won't end
up using ccHost I don't think since it's php. But what ever we use I
think for this cycle we need to be aware of how temporary and transitory
our situation is.
Submission and submission comments could be handle by ccHost {?}.
http://art.ubuntu-owl.org/people/jbaer
We have some work to do here. :)
I've done the smallest amount of work to support the projects we have in
the required ways. Other than that it's not good time to fix it up more.
IMO.
I'll be working some more on our django project, some code etc and I
hope daker, thorwil and others want to continue looking into the design
and production of the website with me.
Martin,
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Re: [ubuntu-art] Proposed Submission Location (Martin Owens)
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 17:30 -0400, John Baer wrote: Thanks for sharing this site. As I do not know anything about ccHost would this application theme using one of the light web-site themes to adhere to the branding standards? I don't know if it's worth doing branding for a site which may be tempary. But you're welcome to download the code and submit a merge request here: https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~owlers Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Proposed Submission Location
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:41 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: How do want us to test it? --Saleel Please create an account (if not already) and submit a few test items. SVG/PNG etc. Then report back any problems and thoughts. Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Proposed Submission Location
Our experimental project for helping to develop the workflow of material design in Ubuntu which has been discussed at UDS this week needs a location where we can upload content. To this end I have looked into using our experimental ccHost website for this purpose and have set up an example entry for the proposed project. This is NOT yet live and shouldn't be considered to be ready for submissions. But testing the website should be a good thing. Even if this is not the website we end up using after our other design research, this will be a good tool to use for the experimental process. http://art.ubuntu-owl.org/submit Things I've done: * Created a special project upload location: http://art.ubuntu-owl.org/submit/launchpadediticon * Created a project tag so entries can be tracked: http://art.ubuntu-owl.org/tags/lpediticon * Added the contributors agreement, links and image (see links above) This and the admin pages should be all we need to upload content for this experiment, but I'd be happy to hear you're thoughts. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] I'm 2D designer, I want to participate with you!
Hey Joe, Welcome! What would you like to do? Make a wallpaper? an icon? some designs? Martin, On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 22:41 +0100, Joe Xavi wrote: -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Hello everyone!
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 22:39 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: I started on this, and then midterms hit: this is what I have so far: I am so sorry for dropping the ball on this. It's nice work :-) I like the two tone version and the colour one only needs features I think. You don't even have to go all that detailed, the images for ibex were great because of their simplicity. Yea stuff like this is hard right now because we do it ad-hock. If youd had said you were doing it on a website that emailed you and pestered you about it, then you'd be on hook ;-) Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Improving What We Do!
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 22:06 -0400, John Baer wrote: Martin you stated in a post on 10/07 your intent to attend UDS. Sadly I can not join you but I and others would like to contribute to discussions in some other manner. I share the same time zone as UDS but I am generally unavailable during the day. Perhaps some impromptu evening meetings on the IRC would be beneficial. :) If there aren't enough people at UDS from the Art Team, then we may end up having to have a real meeting. My first thoughts on this team is that we need real software to manage job requests, announcements (blogs/feeds etc) and submissions. The wiki is a stop gap in my opinion which needs a nice and healthy replacement. There is no shortage of candidates and we could move more towards debian with cchost or more towards fedora with (er, I forget the name) with their art management software. We have lots of choice here and I'd be happy to head it up and collect together requirements. Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] A call for help!
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 11:43 -0400, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: Suggestions and comments are welcome. -Jonathan Wonderful job *hurrah* Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Sites and Duplication
Hey folks, I'll be at UDS in Orlando so if any of you will be there, do come and see me and we can talk more about this issue. We have a problem in our community of a great deal of duplication, each solution focuses on a small slice and as such there is lots of functionality which should be shared but isn't. Here is what I know about: -- Official Websites -- * Ubuntu Art Wikipage - Informational * Spread Ubuntu - Store of artworks, needs work * Ubuntu Look - Store of themes, wallpapers etc * Ubuntu Owl Art - Experimental ccHost build for learning materials. -- Community Outreach -- * Ubuntu Flickr Group * Ubuntu Artists deviantArt group -- Related Programs -- * Ubuntu Wallpapers Contest Wikipage * Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase If you know things I'm missing from this list, let me know. So basically I'd like to reduce the duplication of effort in the official websites. This would mean cutting down on sites and focusing on improving the functionality of a single site to make sure it can do the majority of handling media. The spread ubuntu website seems to be the most successful in terms of functionality and visibility. It's focus is on providing advertising materials, but there is no reason it can't be expanded to include partial materials and software art too (wallpapers, themes etc). It's PHP so that counts against it, but then most of these websites are PHP too so it's a devil of a thing in all cases because we can't share code with the loco directory or other python based ubuntu sites. Thoughts? Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Community Feedback
Hey everyone, I need three or four people to give us some feedback on how we operate the Ubuntu art team and the art communities in general. You need to be recent members and have a desire to or have worked on making Ubuntu pretty. * How did you learn about this part of the community? * What attracted you to this type of participation? * Where did you look first for information on getting involved? * Did you feel the places you looked for information were useful? If not, how could we improve? * When learning skills and content for participating, were the resources you used useful? If not, how could we improve? * What recommendations would you make for improving your experience in our community? Email me privately if you want to be anonymous. * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityReview/Sep2010 -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 11:15 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: Would it be possible to share .xcf component files as well? And I suppose .ai files since inkscape does a decent job of opening those. I'll throw something up there in relation to the xubuntu wallpaper (which I suppose should be splintered into another thread.) I'd be happy to have xcf for certain cases, for instance wallpapers and paint designs etc. Less happy with raster images for designs, materials and publishing bits etc. I'd rather not accept ai files, they're hard to build previews for and should be converted to svg before uploading. Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Owl's ccHost Website
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 14:12 -0700, j_baer wrote: It sounds like most agree the Wiki is not a good solution for our purpose. The Design Hub which is available from Live Gnome ( http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/DesignHub ) looks interesting but may require additional development work. What are the chances we could leverage this effort into our infrastructure solution? Can we call out for developers? If the answer is no, what other solution holds the most promise. We have the solution proposed by Martin. I would also say that ccHost is what Debian uses for it's art site. http://www.debianart.org/cchost/ Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 00:32 -0500, Jake Tolbert wrote: Doing design in a open source sort of way is really, really difficult (I haven't yet seen a successful model--it may exist, but I haven't seen it), which, I assume, is why it's not happening here. I'd point to games for both successes to emulate and lessons from failures. Take Battle for Wesnoth, wonderful graphics, very unified and everything has a good feeling. Unfortunately, until this community has a way to meaningful way to actually contribute to Ubuntu, I think it'll continue to languish. I'm not trying to be negative--on the contrary, I think there's a LOT of potential here (I really think Ubuntu has the potential to break through the outlandishly difficult problem of open source design). I'm just not smart enough to solve the problem itself. Well this group competes against Mark's own thoughts and preferences, so it's not hard to see who would win when one has employees and a direct line into implementation and everyone else has been relegated to sub-meteoritic discussion (although it's very slowly getting better). For design I'd stick with Ayatana, for art, some marketing, some ubuntu studio work, working with the art community on their needs and generally working on arty things like themes, icons, sound themes and so on which we _know_ won't be in the release, but at least could be made very easily available. Part of the problem with art from a packaging side is that very few artists know how to package themes, wallpapers and other things, should we have an education project based around that? I could see us doing a bit of research too in how to make customising the desktop with our artwork easier. Right now including wallpapers on the CD is the only way to get them listed in the wallpaper choosing dialog. There is no reason for that limitation other than coding and having ways to see online art in context would be a big boon for many customisation artists. Thoughts? Martin, -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] A request
It's more important to use open formats than open software, I would have concerns if the files were saved in .ai or .cdr rather than svg and that the components of the design where some how withheld from other artists and developers preventing the maintenance of the art. Why should I care what the program you used to make it was? use what you work best in and produce some great art. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:22:42 +0200 , Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think that it doesn't belong in Linux. It's not a sin to use proprietary software, nor is it a sin to work on Linux with different operating systems. It's not like icons made on a Mac or Windows PC are stolen wares or negatively connotated in any way. They're just icons. Myself, I'm simply a designer who's used to using Adobe's products, like most others in this profession. I contribute to Ubuntu in my spare time, and if I had to try and learn GIMP or Inkscape, I wouldn't have any time left to contribute. And what are the real advantages of switching to either of those programs? It won't make my art any better, but it will make some people feel better, even though the users of the software largely will not care or even know. I'm thankful, however, that a lot of people have responded to this by saying that they're okay with the usage of proprietary software. I just wanted to make sure that this list won't actively discourage users to contribute if they do. It's actually this reason why I haven't started contributing to Ubuntu since around the Hoary cycle. I just didn't feel like I belonged in what seemed to be a small and strict community. Michiel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- ## #::.. http://www.doctormo.co.uk/ ..::# ## -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Almost CRITICAL QUESTION: From IRC.
Do let me know if you need a hand, I've been sort of waiting in the wings for a chance at the media art work. On Wed, 31 May 2006 09:53:05 -0700 , Troy James Sobotka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes sorry Oliver, I missed those. Anyways, there is a printing issue regarding colours. Thankfully ompaul is doing the work to fix it in time. Thanks for your input Oliver. I guess they weren't cleared with the printer before it became a little 'critical'. He needs the NEW marketing artwork I believe. *sigh*, once well, you will hardly find something newer than 6.06 LTS CD wallets/labels for ed,k,ubuntu, these are the covers and labels used for shipit CDs from tomorrow on afaik. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- ## #::.. http://www.doctormo.co.uk/ ..::# ## -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Hello All
I have contacted Canonical directly about it, perhaps we could set up an effort which formalised the creation of media artwork as it has a different aspect which crosses over into the marketing world. I notice the marketing group currently deals with people who _do_ market ubuntu rather than those that produce the materials which they can use to effectively market. I'm not sure if Canonical will like this idea though, the whole idea a volunteer group that makes marketing materials for oss seems new to me (perhaps mozilla has one I don't know). I would envisage a group effort to prepare, proofread and make available the materials that enable effective marketing; one that creates not just CD covers but things like banners, fliers, CD/DVD inserts (instructions/help information) as well as CD covers, CD case art works and logos. This would take the hard work out of spreading ubuntu in creating a professional and consistent image for the ubuntu 'brand'. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Wed, 10 May 2006 23:23:13 -0700 , Corey Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/06, Martin Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, well this all started because I did some designs for me and my friends: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/drmo/ubuntu/ who are Canonical? the company that deals with the distribution? Canonical is the company that currently funds most of the Ubuntudevelopment. Until recently, there hasn't been an artwork team, hence Canonical has been doing the cd cover artwork. Corey -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- ## #::.. http://www.doctormo.co.uk/ ..::# ## -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Hello All
I've come from the ubuntu marketing list, I want to get involved in producing artwork for ubuntus physical media. does the art team deal with this? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- ## #::.. http://www.doctormo.co.uk/ ..::# ## -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
