Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-20 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 01:47 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: Well this group competes against Mark's own thoughts and preferences, Who else thinks this?! There is no competition with Mark or Canonical Design team and considering this official artwork team as a competition is a *very* bad labeling.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-20 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 12:12 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: Problem #1 There are far too many people on this list that never seem to post. People that never post are not a problem. Posts that fail to meat certain standards are. Problem #3 The wiki may be falling apart. Solution: Good let it

Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-20 Thread j_baer
DoctorMO wrote: Hey Art Team, On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 23:16 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: Trim the list to contributors only, only those that post and contribute regularly. I would _highly_ advise against trimming a community, so long as the silent majority are doing no harm to the work,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-20 Thread j_baer
Saleel Velankar wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Cory K. coryis...@gmail.com wrote: Do most folks on the list know this? Should more be done? Maybe change the list name to: ubuntu-community-art? -Cory K. Hey Cory! I agree that name needs to change, especially now that

Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-20 Thread Saleel Velankar
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: 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? Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes, I

Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-20 Thread j_baer
Charlie Kravetz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:16:08 +0530 Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 12:12 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: I am glad to see that others also seem to think that the death of this list is a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-20 Thread Saleel Velankar
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:54 AM, j_baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: Coming up with a resource list is a good idea but the question becomes who is going to maintain it and how will the information be used? Well I was thinking that since we have a lots of artists introduce themselves, followed

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] Solutions

2010-09-20 Thread Saleel Velankar
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: 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

[ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-19 Thread Saleel Velankar
I am glad to see that others also seem to think that the death of this list is a problem. This thread is for discussing how to get back on track. Problem #1 There are far too many people on this list that never seem to post. Solution: Trim the list to contributors only, only those that post and

Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-19 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 20:28 +, Martin Owens wrote: Hey Art Team, On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 23:16 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: Trim the list to contributors only, only those that post and contribute regularly. I would _highly_ advise against trimming a community, so long as the silent

Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-19 Thread Cory K.
For those of you who might not know my name is Cory. I'm former lead/creator of Ubuntu Studio. I've also coordinated various Ubuntu art projects through this list. That said, some steps were taken a while ago to let people know that this list was for *community* art efforts and had little

Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-19 Thread Jake Tolbert
I've been a lurker on this list for at least a year, and will probably continue to lurk--I enjoy design but suck at it myself :). That said, as a bit of an outsider, I think the overwhelming problem with this list is that there's no apparent purpose to it: Canonical has its own design team which

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