Re: [ubuntu-art] A simple Ubuntu Wallpaper

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Owens
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

2012-02-09 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Web Art

2012-01-14 Thread Martin Owens
/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!

2011-11-28 Thread Martin Owens
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

2011-11-03 Thread Martin Owens
: 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

2011-10-20 Thread Martin Owens
, 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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpapers in 11.10

2011-07-07 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpapers in 11.10

2011-07-06 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpapers in 11.10

2011-07-04 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] (no subject)

2011-06-27 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Introduction

2011-06-26 Thread Martin Owens
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.

2011-05-10 Thread Martin Owens
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

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

2011-04-28 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Introduction

2011-04-04 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 70, Issue 1

2011-04-03 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice

2011-02-19 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Where is the Love?

2011-02-19 Thread Martin Owens
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

2011-02-18 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Acting first

2011-02-18 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Goodbye

2011-02-17 Thread Martin Owens
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

[ubuntu-art] Art Request: Install On Ubuntu

2011-01-28 Thread Martin Owens
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

2011-01-28 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Icon for LibreCAD (future CAD program in Edubuntu/Ubuntu)

2011-01-21 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase

2011-01-21 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground Explained

2011-01-21 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Icon for LibreCAD (future CAD program in Edubuntu/Ubuntu)

2011-01-20 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Video Animations

2011-01-19 Thread Martin Owens
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

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

2011-01-14 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] remove me

2010-12-09 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dates

2010-11-25 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Icon for Ubuntu-bugsquad

2010-11-22 Thread Martin Owens
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

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

2010-11-20 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Posters for Zimbabwe

2010-11-19 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Need Help with Wallpaper Spec

2010-11-18 Thread Martin Owens
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

2010-11-16 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Community Survey

2010-11-15 Thread Martin Owens
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 -

[ubuntu-art] Nucleous Meeting

2010-11-15 Thread Martin Owens
: 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

Re: [ubuntu-art] LibreOffice project: request for contributors and mentoring

2010-11-10 Thread Martin Owens
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,

Re: [ubuntu-art] screenshots.ubuntu.com

2010-11-10 Thread Martin Owens
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. --

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

2010-11-01 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork Light Wiki Mockup

2010-10-31 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork Light Wiki Mockup

2010-10-31 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork Light Wiki Mockup

2010-10-30 Thread Martin Owens
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

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

2010-10-29 Thread 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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Proposed Submission Location

2010-10-28 Thread Martin Owens
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

[ubuntu-art] Proposed Submission Location

2010-10-27 Thread Martin Owens
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!

2010-10-22 Thread Martin Owens
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!

2010-10-22 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Improving What We Do!

2010-10-13 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] A call for help!

2010-10-07 Thread Martin Owens
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

2010-10-05 Thread Martin Owens
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

[ubuntu-art] Community Feedback

2010-09-23 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-20 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Owl's ccHost Website

2010-09-20 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-19 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] A request

2006-06-12 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Almost CRITICAL QUESTION: From IRC.

2006-05-31 Thread Martin Owens
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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Hello All

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Owens
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

[ubuntu-art] Hello All

2006-05-07 Thread Martin Owens
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