[ubuntu-art] art.ubuntu.com

[Niel Drummond]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:18:54 +0100
Martin Owens <doctormo at postmaster.co.uk> wrote:

> Maybe if we don't want to provide a community type art page as
> described we could link to the gnome-look pages for people to put
> their wallpapers up there. they have a much better set of tools for
> dealing with anonymous submissions.

I agree. If I remember correctly, the argument was that art.ubuntu.org
was a "lesser" version of the existing gnome-look project, and a great
deal of submissions ended up there.

AFAIK AUC is being revamped (by Matthew Nuzum maybe?)

regards

- Niel

> 
> Best Regards, Martin Owens
> 
> Jane Silber wrote:
> > Hi folks -
> >
> > I just noticed that art.ubuntu.com was shut down. I understand the
> > priority of getting the wiki in order and applaud your efforts
> > there. But what's the matter with leaving a place where community
> > people can contribute wallpapers?  Those submissions don't
> > necessarily need to be part of the process of selecting what goes
> > on the CD, but people like to create wallpapers, share them,
> > download them, etc and you are effectively turning away people who
> > want to express their enjoyment of Ubuntu through making wallpapers.
> >
> > Not all of the art process is about making the distro, and
> > art.ubuntu.com provides a place where people can contribute
> > wallpapers without getting involved in the more formal process of
> > artwork for a specific release, and we should support both types of
> > contributions. It is also causing confusion internally - the
> > Marketing team is now talking about creating a new site like
> > art.ubuntu.com where people can contribute wallpapers (not as
> > "consider this for the default artwork" but as in "I did this, it's
> > cool, others might like it").
> >
> > My opinion is that by shutting that site to contributions you have
> > closed the door to valuable community contributions and energy.
> > What's the argument against re-opening it?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jane
> >
> >   
> 
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