Art sites, Ubuntu exposure

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Jeff, guys, this is great! As some of you might have noticed I'm very 
keen on distinguishing Ubuntu in terms of artwork, and while we decided 
to keep the default setup very neutral and simple, I'd like to support 
artwork strongly. Let me know what we can do to make your lives easier.

At the very least, I think we should have a package with the top 20 
Ubuntu themes in Hoary, not as a default install but as a one-shot 
download, single pacakge in the archive. If we announced that early, I 
think we'd have excellent submissions and time to have a community 
process to select the top 20.

Mark Turner wrote:

>On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:50:27 -0700, Mark Turner <amerine at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:09:54 +1000, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at canonical.com> wrote:
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>>>Hey everyone,
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>>>So I was thinking about the somewhat suboptimal situation with the two
>>>artwork sites, and it reminded me of a thought I had a few weeks ago
>>>when I first saw artwork appearing on {gnome,kde}-look.org...
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>>>Having Ubuntu-related artwork on those sites is an excellent form of
>>>exposure - grass-roots marketing, if you will - because people will see
>>>the artwork there and wonder what all this Ubuntu stuff is all about.
>>>Hopefully they'll like the artwork and the concepts behind it, and try
>>>Ubuntu out.
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>>>Ubuntu-specific artwork sites would not have the same effect, because
>>>anyone going to them would either be interested in Ubuntu, or existing
>>>users. So even though it's a cool thing to do (and thanks to you guys
>>>for having the initiative to set them up!), perhaps we should wait a
>>>while and let these sites attract more users for us..? :-)
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>>>Ultimately, I think we do want to have more Ubuntu-specific sites out
>>>there, but perhaps we should try and figure out a way of working closely
>>>with some of the existing sites that get a lot of eyeballs. Hmm. Wonder
>>>if we can come up with something clever for this.
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>>>This is just a bunch of thoughts from the top of my head, by the way,
>>>not policy or anything like that.
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>>>Thanks,
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>>>- Jeff
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>>>Ooh, ooh, ooh!             http://www.ubuntulinux.org/           Ubuntu!
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>>I agree compleatly, but like I said before ubuntu-look.org is only in
>>the planning stages. I want to hear from the community members on what
>>they would like to see. I belive that the name "Ubuntu-Look" could
>>mean alot more then just an Art Work site. But everything is still
>>open in the air as of yet.
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>>--
>>-Mark A Turner-
>>amerine at gmail.com
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>P.S. I have the 8th most downloaded 1024x768 Wallpaper on
>Gnome-Look.org. And it happens to be my Ubuntu_fire one. :) Just
>noticed that !
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