Re: [ubuntu-art] So long, and thanks for all the fish

2012-09-27 Thread John Baer
Sergey, Best of luck to you and thank you for all of your contributions to Ubuntu and the community. John On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Сергей Давыдов shnat...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, This is a message to those few who might still remember me. It is time for me to leave. I will not be

Re: [ubuntu-art] new icon themes

2011-12-28 Thread John Baer
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Murali Krishna husband.of.de...@gmail.comwrote: Hello everyone, the icons looks pretty outdated even after changing many themes. In terms of visual appeal, I think there is a long way for Ubuntu when compared with Windows 7. Please look into development of

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpapers in 11.10

2011-07-17 Thread John Baer
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Blau Araujo blau.b...@gmail.com wrote: Same wallpapers in unbranded versions. http://twitpic.com/5rpimk - Auber http://twitpic.com/5rpiz4 - Warm [ ]'s Blau Auber +1 Remember at some point you need to add your submission to the flickr group.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Wallpaper Submission Advice *Draft*

2011-07-07 Thread John Baer
as we always have. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Backgrounds Would you/ someone be up for drafting an update? Iain On 07/07/11 09:46, Timur Carpeev wrote: Please advice how to unsubscribe from this emails. Thank you On Jul 7, 2011, at 12:26 AM, John Baer wrote: All

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpapers in 11.10

2011-07-06 Thread John Baer
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Iain Farrell iain.farr...@canonical.comwrote: ** Hey all We'll welcome non photographic wallpapers just like we did in the last release although I'm not convinced that the Prateek's example is the way to go, not least because it doesn't feature the proper

[ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Wallpaper Submission Advice *Draft*

2011-07-06 Thread John Baer
All, I put together some ideas on a wiki page for discussion here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnBaer/Sandbox In order to maintain transparency I must disclose the core document was drafted by Máirín Duffy ( aka Fedora :) for the same purpose. The revisions I made was my attempt to blend it to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Community wallpaper contest - Re: Looking forwards not back.

2011-05-09 Thread John Baer
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 07:08 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: 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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Community wallpaper contest - Re: Looking forwards not back.

2011-05-09 Thread John Baer
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 10:44 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: As today is the due date for a spectacularly boring research paper of mine, I will be spending the day looking up and rechecking pointless MLA rules. Please post a link

Re: [ubuntu-art] Question About Natty Wallpaper Contest

2011-03-14 Thread John Baer
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:38 PM, ErinOfEarth e...@estes.com wrote: Okay, thanks anyways. I'll wait to hear back. (: coz wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:15 PM, ErinOfEarth e...@estes.com wrote: I've had Ubuntu for a while now and have made a number of non-photographic

Re: [ubuntu-art] Question About Natty Wallpaper Contest

2011-03-14 Thread John Baer
in the contest or not? --Erin On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 20:45 -0400, John Baer wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:38 PM, ErinOfEarth e...@estes.com wrote: Okay, thanks anyways. I'll wait to hear back. (: coz wrote: On Mon, Mar 14

Re: [ubuntu-art] IMPORTANT : Natty illustration wallpaper submissions group

2011-02-21 Thread John Baer
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Iain Farrell iain.farr...@canonical.comwrote: Hey everyone I just wanted to reiterate what Vish is saying here about keeping the non photo submissions in the same group as the photo ones. I'll copy in here what I've posted on the Flickr group page. Hi

Re: [ubuntu-art] IMPORTANT : Natty illustration wallpaper submissions group

2011-02-21 Thread John Baer
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Saleel Velankar svela...@gmail.comwrote: John, Respectfully I add that once again the overwhelming conversation has been about organizing art, instead of art. It is pointless, boring, and lately highly divisive. We have already lost a team member that I

Re: [ubuntu-art] IMPORTANT : Natty illustration wallpaper submissions group

2011-02-21 Thread John Baer
2011/2/21 Leandro Gómez leo.tel...@gmail.com On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:21 AM, John Baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Saleel Velankar svela...@gmail.comwrote: John, Respectfully I add that once again the overwhelming conversation has been about organizing

Re: [ubuntu-art] IMPORTANT : Natty illustration wallpaper submissions group

2011-02-21 Thread John Baer
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 11:49 -0500, John Baer wrote: Sadly and with out a doubt folks will walk away with a bitter taste in their mouth and these folks are respected contributors to the greater artwork community

[ubuntu-art] Where is the Love?

2011-02-19 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, I see a couple of threads on this list have seen much activity. First, I would caution everyone this is a public list and the words spoke here see a much broader audience. I have not read all of the threads but I see from Сергей last comments there has been a suggestion of

Re: [ubuntu-art] IMPORTANT : Natty illustration wallpaper submissions group

2011-02-18 Thread John Baer
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi, In case folks have not seen Thorsten's post about this: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/watch-out-regarding-natty-wallpaper-submissions/ The submissions for the natty wallpaper illustration *should* be in the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended

2011-02-17 Thread John Baer
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Сергей shnat...@gmail.com wrote: Well, the first of February was quite a long time ago, in my time zone at least :) I wonder where's the winners announcement? -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Goodbye

2011-02-17 Thread John Baer
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 13:41 -0500, Martin Owens wrote: 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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended

2011-02-17 Thread John Baer
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Сергей shnat...@gmail.com wrote: Sergey, If there is a ray of sunshine on this list you are it. :) Don't say that. The list is full of intelligent, talented and creative people. We *all* just need to be a bit more collaborative. +1 Oh well. It seems

Re: [ubuntu-art] Edubuntu Wallpaper

2011-02-16 Thread John Baer
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) jonat...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi A few months back John Baer approacedh Edubuntu and offered some assitance in creating a wallpaper for Edubuntu. He helped us create the spec on the Ubuntu wiki[1], and since then, there have been

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu DVD Packaging Artwork - Getting Close to Final

2011-02-11 Thread John Baer
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Pumpkin Lord eldis.des...@gmail.comwrote: New fixes applied. Back info text is now nicely aligned and not floating around. Some small changes on side tab are applied too. Considering optical vs metric font kerning mantioned before, optical didn't provide any

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 67: ubuntu natty wallpaper

2011-02-08 Thread John Baer
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:31 AM, simmens boarding simmen...@gmail.comwrote: ubuntu natty wallpaper is there a theme to create? would like to try me in that! many thanks for that great software! -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu DVD Packaging Artwork

2011-02-06 Thread John Baer
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Pumpkin Lord eldis.des...@gmail.com wrote: I just fnished a new cover package for Ubuntu. This time I made it universal, without version numbers, in a purpose of a long time packaging, with just changing the CDs/DVDs with actual release every 6 months. Here

Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground Explained

2011-01-21 Thread John Baer
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Сергей shnat...@gmail.com wrote: The process of manually taking screenshots, saving them, naming them, launching the command with the needed parameters seemed too manual to me, so I wrote a small shell script which does it all automatically. After running it

[ubuntu-art] Design Brief: Alternate Natty Wallpapers

2011-01-19 Thread John Baer
I could not be more satisfied with the submissions for Community wallpapers and my desire is to keep this momentum going for Ubuntu. I really like working from a design brief as it provides me with guidance to the desired outcome and with that said I am blowing the dust off the Alternate Natty

Re: [ubuntu-art] Video Animations

2011-01-17 Thread John Baer
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Ivanka Majic ivanka.ma...@canonical.comwrote: Happy New Year all! Do we have anyone in the community who makes fun little things like this? http://vimeo.com/18669276 Ivanka -- Ivanka Majić Creative Strategy Lead Canonical Design Team m:

Re: [ubuntu-art] 3 community wallpapers will be included in Natty

2011-01-17 Thread John Baer
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Сергей shnat...@gmail.com wrote: Not a task assigned to us; since the official team has shouldered the responsibility of picking out the three, there isn't much that we can do as a group. On the other hand, artists willing to contribute probably will start

[ubuntu-art] Submission - Software Centre Visual Design

2011-01-16 Thread John Baer
Matthew, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MatthewPaulThomasPlease find my Software Centre Visual Design submission here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnBaer/SoftwareCentreVisualDesign Kind regards, John -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wanted: Artwork for Ubuntu Software Center department screens

2010-12-20 Thread John Baer
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Сергей shnat...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/20 Charlie Kravetz c...@teamcharliesangels.comIf it looks like unity/Ubuntu, what about the rest of the derivatives that also include it? Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Edubuntu all use this Software Center. Would it not be better

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wanted: Artwork for Ubuntu Software Center department screens

2010-12-19 Thread John Baer
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Saleel Velankar svela...@gmail.comwrote: Also I need some ideas for the accessories category graphic. The best I could come up with is a handbag, which I feel is vaguely confusing and possibly a bit sexist. -- Saleel -- ubuntu-art mailing list

[ubuntu-art] Welcome Newest Member - Leo

2010-12-18 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, I invited another respected colleague to join the team and he posted his first submission to the Lubuntu wallpaper task. http://www.flickr.com/groups/uawt-8/ Please join me in welcoming Leo to the team. Great job and thank you. John -- ubuntu-art mailing list

[ubuntu-art] Wallpaper spec tweaks

2010-12-18 Thread John Baer
Hello everyone, I was reminded of the fact Flickr will accept images up to 1024 x 640 for free accounts. IMO I do not see this as an impediment for submissions and simply noted this limitation in the specs. Kind regards, John / 2nd attempt - first email bounced back :/ -- ubuntu-art mailing

[ubuntu-art] Newest Member

2010-12-17 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, * Pardon me if this is a duplicate post ;( * I invited a respected colleague to join the team and he posted his first submission to the Edubuntu wallpaper task. http://www.flickr.com/groups/uawt-6/ Please join me in welcoming Vlad Gerasimov to the team. Great job and thank

[ubuntu-art] Putting Alt Wallpapers Proposal to Rest

2010-12-15 Thread John Baer
Hello everyone, When I crafted my proposal for alternate wallpapers I hoped it would be discussed but I was surprised to see the events unfold as they did. One of my favorite quotes is “Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can”. I believe we have reached that point with

Re: [ubuntu-art] Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-14 Thread John Baer
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Сергей shnat...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I want to add my two cents because I've been a wiki admin for 1,5 years, and there are established and time-proved traditions of handling proposals and making decisions. I'll try to provide a summary of them:

Re: [ubuntu-art] Do you have good links to the Blender, Processing or a particular artwork community?

2010-12-14 Thread John Baer
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: Hi! I just posted about the Edubuntu and Xubuntu wallpaper thing. This will appear on Planet Ubuntu: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/designing-wallpapers-for-edubuntu-and-xubuntu/ (I mentioned Lubuntu as often

[ubuntu-art] Personal Appeal for Change

2010-12-14 Thread John Baer
Vish, With respect and without malice I am asking that you please stop deleting Wiki content and restore the content you removed. Kind regards, John -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] A Personal Appeal for Change (2nd request)

2010-12-14 Thread John Baer
Vish, Again, with respect and without malice I am asking that you please stop deleting Wiki content and restore the content you removed. Kind regards, John -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-14 Thread John Baer
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Saleel Velankar svela...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not opposed to a single pool for non-photo wallpapers, if you are that eager, but please not several. I would also lean towards keeping it open, that is: not tied to a release. I can see the sense behind that,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-13 Thread John Baer
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 11:44 -0500, John Baer wrote: Hello Everyone, I added to the project board a very exciting proposal for the team. The proposal is to create graphic designs to be used as alternate Ubuntu wallpapers

Re: [ubuntu-art] Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-13 Thread John Baer
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 11:44 -0500, John Baer wrote: The proposal is to create graphic designs to be used as alternate Ubuntu wallpapers for the Natty release. It is important to remember this is a proposal which

Re: [ubuntu-art] Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-13 Thread John Baer
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 11:27 -0500, John Baer wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: I'm against the part of your proposal that specifies separate Flickr pools. Except if Ivanka agrees

[ubuntu-art] Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-12 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, I added to the project board a very exciting proposal for the team. The proposal is to create graphic designs to be used as alternate Ubuntu wallpapers for the Natty release. It is important to remember this is a proposal which means this effort may or may not be endorsed by the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Make announcement of submissions mandatory

2010-12-10 Thread John Baer
2010/12/10 Leandro Gómez leo.tel...@gmail.com On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 12:33 -0600, Leandro Gómez wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: This is again only creating more

Re: [ubuntu-art] My wallpaper submissions

2010-12-10 Thread John Baer
2010/12/10 Leandro Gómez leo.tel...@gmail.com Ok... let's get this started.. Lubuntu wallpapers: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leogg/5247147257/in/pool-1610...@n22/ Xubuntu wallpapers: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leogg/522424/in/pool-1546...@n20/

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wanted: Artwork for Ubuntu Software Center department screens

2010-12-10 Thread John Baer
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks I'm not a regular on this list, so please forgive me if I get anything wrong. The Ubuntu Software Center developers are on a mission to make USC a joy to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Nice article on making nicer screencasts

2010-12-09 Thread John Baer
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Dylan McCall dylanmcc...@gmail.com wrote: [large heap of babbling was here; removed because I'm interested in what others think!] :) Dylan Dylan, Excellent topic. A place I have frequented is http://screencasters.heathenx.org/ For me the biggest

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re ady for Xubuntu Wallpaper Submissions

2010-12-09 Thread John Baer
2010/12/9 Simon Steinbeiß simon.steinbe...@elfenbeinturm.at On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:45:44 +0100 Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/0007_Xubuntu_Natty_Wallpaper : The Xubuntu palette has been completely blue, so far. A monotone color

[ubuntu-art] Lubuntu Spec

2010-12-08 Thread John Baer
Hey Lubuntu community and Thorsten, I added some love to the Lubuntu spec so we may open this up for submissions. Are my changes acceptable? Best regards, John -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground wallpaper templates and utilities

2010-12-08 Thread John Baer
Hey Thorsten, Will you provide a command line example of how to execute sizes. I am getting an error and I believe the problem is it is trying to output files to a location where it does not have permissions. I am testing with the following syntax python sizes image.png in a folder I titled

Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground wallpaper templates and utilities

2010-12-08 Thread John Baer
Thorsten, Got it! python sizes -o folder image.png John On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:36 AM, John Baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Thorsten, Will you provide a command line example of how to execute sizes. I am getting an error and I believe the problem is it is trying to output files

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpaper due dates need to be checked - was Re: Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended

2010-12-08 Thread John Baer
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 18:11 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 20:27 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-date-format Since obviously option 1 has its pit-fall of not being

[ubuntu-art] Ready for Lubuntu Wallpaper Submissions

2010-12-08 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, I am pleased to announce we are ready to accept Lubuntu wallpaper submissions. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/0008_Lubuntu_Natty_Wallpaper Best regards, John -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Language barrier for Participation - was Re: Artwork Team Logo - Submissions due today!

2010-12-07 Thread John Baer
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:18 AM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 10:33 -0200, Blau Araujo wrote: First of all, I apologize for not participating so actively in this discussion. Not only because my English is not good enough to develop full arguments, but mainly because

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork Team Logo Submissions (Thorsten Wilms)

2010-12-07 Thread John Baer
On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 16:30 -0800, j_baer wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/TeamLogoSubmissions In my eyes only #14 and #17 are acceptable. #14 needs a little tweaking. The elements should be a bit thicker, just slightly more robust. There should be an imaginary circle at the

[ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended

2010-12-07 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, The deadline to the new Artwork Team Logo project is extended to 2011-01-02 as some important new information has been added to the spec for your consideration. AFAIK flickr will retain the file format of your original submission and only convert to jpg other scaled versions.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Flickr permissions

2010-12-07 Thread John Baer
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 07:47 -0500, John Baer wrote: Also, check your flickr permissions as I noticed some submissions are only viewable if I am logged into flickr. That's strange, as I get to see the same 22 images

[ubuntu-art] Upstream Opportunity

2010-12-07 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, If you are interested, I just saw this on OMG Ubuntu. GNOME 3.0 is coming in April 2011 and we are looking for YOU to help design a t-shirt that celebrates the GNOME 3.0 release! We will pick up to three winning designs and sell t-shirts (and possibly more!) with your designs at

Re: [ubuntu-art] Debconf12 logo

2010-12-06 Thread John Baer
2010/12/6 Leandro Gómez leo.tel...@gmail.com 2010/11/26 Leandro Gómez leo.tel...@gmail.com Hi all, The Ubuntu Nicaragua LoCo Team has teamed up with the local Debian community in order to present a bid for the Debconf12 event. We are currently working on the bid and are in desperate need

[ubuntu-art] Edubuntu Wallpaper

2010-12-06 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, Just a reminder ;-) the spec states the desire is to refrain from using the Edubuntu logo and text in your submissions. Best regards, John -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Proposal discussion on xubuntu wallpaper/artwork.

2010-11-24 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, This discussion is very exciting and the points being raised are spot on - but somehow the spec needs to reflect the desire of the community and the advice of this team. Thorsten - Saleel - Charlie? Will you update the spec? Saleel, I would like to make you an admin of the

[ubuntu-art] LibreOffice Logo Submission

2010-11-21 Thread John Baer
Hello, Another for the list. This submissionhttp://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:J_baer-LibreOfficeLogo_101121.pngwas created from the thought framing it to get it right. Cheers, John Ubuntu Artwork Team -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-art] LibreOffice Logo Submission

2010-11-20 Thread John Baer
Hello, I upload a new logo logo submissionhttp://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:J_baer-LibreOfficeLogo_101120.pngfor your consideration. The concept with this submission is LibreOffice is tool for achieving office productivity. Best regards, John Ubuntu Artwork Team -- ubuntu-art mailing

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Forums need design assistance

2010-11-13 Thread John Baer
Mike, Just checking in. I am hopeful the Artwork Team has provided value in the re-design of the Ubuntu Forums site. Are you in need of additional assistance or may I close this task? John -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-art] The Brickyard - Week of 11/12/2010

2010-11-12 Thread John Baer
requested assistance with enhancing this solution. A specification is currently under development. * Contributing in meaningful Ways * John Baer submitted a commentary encouraging team members to participate. * Artwork Team Logo Update * Please a take moment to review and comment

[ubuntu-art] Contributining in Meaningful Ways - LibreOffice project

2010-11-10 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, Here is an opportunity to contribute to a project which has high visibility and the work so far is very good. My fear is the total effort is greater than this group can handle but we can certainly contribute in meaningful ways by creating specific items as requested. I agreed to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Forums need design assistance

2010-11-09 Thread John Baer
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Mike Basinger mike.basin...@ubuntu.comwrote: Those icons look fantastic, the only problem is that the forums is a pure community project and we need to avoid the aubergine shades and probably stick with the orange. These icons are called on the forum page are

[ubuntu-art] Contributing In Meaningful Ways

2010-11-09 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, It is my firm belief a fundamental driver to the success of the Artwork Team will be the ability to contribute in meaningful ways. To affirm that commitment to you I would like to list current and planned activities. *Current Activity* *Ubuntu** Forums* The item which has the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Forums need design assistance

2010-11-08 Thread John Baer
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 02:35 +, ubuntu-art-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Message: 7 Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 15:23:50 -0700 From: Mike Basinger mike.basin...@ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Forums need design assistance To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork

[ubuntu-art] Artwork Team Logo

2010-11-04 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, Looking back at the list archive I see many excellent ideas for the new Artwork Team logo. Please post to the repository as described in the spec when convenient. Thanks, John -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-art] New Artwork Team Wiki

2010-11-03 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, It is my pleasure to introduce the updated new look of the Artwork Team Wiki ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork ). The design supports the changes outlined in the blueprint and may be considered a work in progress. Please set your user preferences to the new light Wiki theme for

[ubuntu-art] Flickr is the best interim Image Repository

2010-11-01 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, Realizing in the long term we will adopt something which satisfies our unique requirements, I’ve been experimenting with the tools at hand for a solution which I believe will serve our needs now. IMO the current tool set mix should be the mailing list, Wiki, Launchpad, and

[ubuntu-art] Updated Light Artwork Team Mockup

2010-11-01 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, Updated the Artwork Team mock up to present better with the Chrome browser. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnBaer/Artwork John -- 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 Fernandes Gon?alves)

2010-11-01 Thread John Baer
Felipe, To alter your subscription please see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art Best wishes, John -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] Artwork Light Wiki Mockup

2010-10-30 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, I completed a proof of concept Artwork Wiki site based on the new light theme [ not fully functional :) ]. See the following OMG Ubuntu post for the new look details. You will need to change to this theme to test the Artwork poc.

[ubuntu-art] Proposed Submission Location (Martin Owens)

2010-10-29 Thread John Baer
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 06:41 +0100, ubuntu-art-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Message: 6 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:40:57 -0400 From: Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com Subject: [ubuntu-art] Proposed Submission Location To: Ivanka Majic ivanka.ma...@gmail.com, Ubuntu Art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork Team Logo

2010-10-27 Thread John Baer
Everyone, Your logo designs are great. As there are many changes in play I would like to use the wiki to hold our submissions for this effort. A page similar to the count down banner page should do. I will work on this and have it ready this weekend. New designer's - if you will work on your

Re: [ubuntu-art] Reinvigorate Ubuntu Artwork Team Spec ( Update )

2010-10-26 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, Wow - UDS day 2. I added a white board page to the Wiki blueprint with some thoughts on what the requirements would be for a new toolkit. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Blueprint/Whiteboard In my mind I see two tools. One to capture task info perhaps model after

[ubuntu-art] Open Letter to Ivanka Majic / Canonical Design Team

2010-10-26 Thread John Baer
such as contests would work the same way. The result in my opinion is folks will flock to this team to learn, to contribute, and to be a part of a winning community. Design Team members will assume leadership roles expanding contributions in ways I can not imagine. Respectfully, John Baer Artwork Team

[ubuntu-art] Reinvigorate Ubuntu Artwork Team Spec

2010-10-24 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, I noticed the Launchpad blueprint for this topic was waiting a spec so I gave it a go ( feel free to modify as desired ). Launchpad https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-design-n-reinvigorate-artwork-team Spec

Re: [ubuntu-art] Reinvigorate Ubuntu Artwork Team Spec (Saleel Velankar)

2010-10-24 Thread John Baer
On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 23:35 +0100, Saleel Velankar wrote: -- Saleel Remote participation http://uds.ubuntu.com/participate/remote/ This topic is in Bonaire 4 on Tuesday at 15:00 Saleel, Thank you, I will try to connect remotely. John -- ubuntu-art mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-art] Improving What We Do! (Martin Owens)

2010-10-14 Thread John Baer
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:48 AM, ubuntu-art-requ...@lists.ubuntu.comwrote: Message: 3 From: Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com Subject: 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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Improving What We Do! (Thorsten Wilms)

2010-10-14 Thread John Baer
Thorsten, Thanks for all your comments. I certainly understand your frustration with the Wiki. I wonder how the Ubuntu Weekly News Team feel about the tool? They submit a lot of wiki content. As for the Artwork Team, if the wiki went away what impact would it have? John -- ubuntu-art mailing

[ubuntu-art] Improving What We Do!

2010-10-13 Thread John Baer
Hello everyone, I was reading Mark Shuttleworth's blog about the 10.10 release and he makes several good comments about community. Building a free OS involves an extraordinary diversity of skills, and what’s harder is that it requires merging the contributions from so many diverse disciplines

[ubuntu-art] Announcing Impression GTK Unity

2010-10-05 Thread John Baer
Hello everyone, The Impression GTK themes are now available for Unity from the Wiki. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Maverick/ImpressionGtkThemes Screen shots are available from projBlog. http://www.projblog.com/?p=1988 Cheers, John -- ubuntu-art mailing list

[ubuntu-art] Spread Ubuntu

2010-10-02 Thread John Baer
I noticed someone is using Foopics to host artwork titled spread ubuntu. http://www.foopics.com/show/0990f45cf5843a7deaacbcbea579a5ce Nice! -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] DesignHub Update

2010-09-22 Thread John Baer
Hey everyone, I pinged Mairin about DesignHub and the following is her reply. DesignHub is in need of a designer to help Robby move forward with it. I simply ran out of time to devote to it. There's a lot of details on how to get involved here and I think there is a good chance Robby is still

Re: [ubuntu-art] What would you like to work on? (Andrew Starr-Bochicchio)

2010-09-21 Thread John Baer
On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 11:02 +0100, ubuntu-art-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Message: 1 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:35:39 -0400 From: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio a.star...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] What would you like to work on? To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork

Re: [ubuntu-art] What are we doing? (Vishnoo)

2010-09-19 Thread John Baer
Vish, Thank you for starting this thread. To place everyone on the same page Saleel Velankar submitted a message to the Ayatana list titled Community Artwork and Lessons learned from Gaia10 where he describes his art experience with the Gaia10 project this past summer. Thank you Saleel for

[ubuntu-art] Wallpaper Aspect Ratio

2010-03-05 Thread John Baer
All, Some time back a discussion occurred about the correct demension for wallpaper submission and the number 2650x1920 was offered as a good middle ground. I am finding a single demension inadequate for wall papers with images which depend upon the aspect ratio to display correctly (i.e. circles

[ubuntu-art] Thanks

2010-03-05 Thread John Baer
I just updated my Lucid desktop and a new community-themes package. I see the Impression buttons are now on the left. I was thinking of doing the same thing. Thanks for the help! -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] Metacity Button Order Changed

2010-03-04 Thread John Baer
I noticed in today's upgrade (03/04) the order of the metacity's minimize and maximized buttons changed. In the old metacity the order was; minimize, maximize, close In the new metacity the order is: maximize, minimize, close Is this the desired effect or is this a bug? -- ubuntu-art mailing

[ubuntu-art] Community Themes Too Hard To Find

2010-03-03 Thread John Baer
As I installed community themes and I found the only way to locate the package was through Syntapic search. As Software Center becomes the desired software installation tool is there a way to add this package? I am willing to create a screen shot or other required artwork. John -- ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] Impression Metacity Updates

2010-01-10 Thread John Baer
Hello Everyone, I re-built the Impression Metacity theme from the ground up using Sonar as a base. I like the end result and the Appearance Preference icons do display better. Later this week I will grab a copy of Lucid and do some additional testing. :)

[ubuntu-art] Impression Night Impression GTK Themes

2010-01-02 Thread John Baer
Hello everyone, I uploaded the Lucid Impression Night Impression GTK Themes to the Wiki. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Lucid/ImpressionGtkTheme The only issue I am aware of the is the theme icons do not always display as desired in the Appearance Preferences dialog. I thought the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Fluid Boot Experience

2009-11-19 Thread John Baer
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 15:37 -0600, Jonathan Blackhall wrote: So I got to thinking about the boot experience today and I was wondering if anyone had any comments on this. First, I think a successful default booting sequence should have 3 characteristics that are currently not

[ubuntu-art] Blogging Ubuntu

2009-11-16 Thread John Baer
One way to actively promote Ubuntu is to blog about it. I put up a blog titled projBlog located here http://www.projblog.com/ . I'm new to blogging but the one interesting thing I discovered is how to leverage flickr to enhance your posts. All of the images and the Night Impression slide show are

Re: [ubuntu-art] Checking In

2009-09-16 Thread John Baer
Andrew, Thanks for the update. I had to grab your reply from Nabble as I did not get it in my email. :/ I made some minor changes to Night Impression today and fixed a bug relating to a missing file. I would like to test against Alpha 6 tomorrow and if everything works as desired I believe it

[ubuntu-art] Checking In

2009-09-15 Thread John Baer
Hello everyone ... For some reason :/ I haven't been getting many emails from this list of late. It may be a problem on my end but I thought I would mention it here. I see from the road map we are quickly coming to the artwork deadline (9/24). I believe The Night Impression Gtk Theme is to the

[ubuntu-art] New Version of Night Impression

2009-08-09 Thread John Baer
I uploaded a new version of Night Impression to the Wiki. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/NightImpression Some of the changes include: Moving the scrollbar stepper back to the standard used by most themes and darkening the bar. The murrine engine doesn't pre-light a dark bar

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