On Friday 11 December 2009 01:39:32 pm Kenneth Wimer wrote: > Hi all, > > Today is the first day of the rest of your Lucid :) If you haven't heard > yet, we're looking for some amazing desktop backgrounds to offer our > users. If you saw Ubuntu 9.04 (the karmic koala), you'll know that we > included an extra set of lovely images created by the community.
Erm, it was pointed out to me that Karmic was 9.10, not 9.04...not sure what I was thinking, sorry :p - k > We'd like to continue this effort and make Lucid even better. In order to > consolidate our efforts we are going to change infrastructure and processes > as follows. > > From now on we will use the wiki for project related work and information > only. As in the past, you can create a new page under Incoming/Lucid to > describe your concept and work on it with others. > > The notable change is that we no longer have a page with wallpaper > submissions. Due to limits with the wiki, the learning barrier to actually > use a wiki and the extra work involved with drawing new contributors to a > new format we decided a change was needed. > > Last cycle we used Flickr groups to allow for desktop background / > wallpaper contributions and the results were amazing. Several thousand > photos were submitted and I didn't have to explain how to do it once ;) We > had lots of first-time contributors and Ubuntu newbies. > > The process is simple: > * create an account or login (http://www.flickr.com) > * join the ubuntu artwork group in Flickr > (http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/) > * upload your image(s) to flickr, making sure that you have a high-res > version available and that the image is licensed by one of: > * Attribution Creative Commons > * Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons > * send each image you would like to submit to the ubuntu artwork group > > This does not mean that you need a pro account on flickr, just be sure that > you have high resolution images available should yours be selected (in > addition to making sure it is CC licensed in flickr). > > Note that you still *can* have a project page on the wiki to work on a > project or certain piece of artwork (a desktop background as well). We > simply will not use the wiki for submissions to the collection. > > Be sure to read the information and guidelines at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation > > -- > Kenneth > -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
