[ubuntu-art] WIKI: Planned update and TODO

[Troy James Sobotka]

If I can find some time tonight, I will be attempting
a wiki update.

What I would like to do is trim the incoming dir
and migrate several items to 'Need Sorting'
directories.

We need four solid edgy incoming pages for each item,
plus one summary page for referencing at a distance.
This reflects the four primary specifications for open
development.  Frank and Ken are frantically skittling 
around in the background making sure some of the 
demons in the details get taken care of.

If someone takes some time to do a little art legwork
and sort out the submissions into a clearer structure,
I would be thankful.

The bottom line -- if you want to make sure your material
is included in this update, try to get it all in by 
midnight PST Saturday the 22nd.  

This isn't any sort of official final notice, as I try
to keep current, but my schedule is ugly so I don't
know how often I am going to be able to do a semi-official
cleanup summary.  They really should be done on the 
checkpoints in the breakdown
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/EdgyArtworkPlan )
and we hit a checkpoint on the 20th.

Good time for a selection of feedback too, so I will try
to get something in place to take care of that.


Thanks for any help anyone can offer (and I do mean ANY),
TJS

PS:  According to the breakdown, our Proposal phase ends
on the 7th of August, so please make sure that your attempts
are paper documented on the wiki for feedback.  Get it 
SOMEWHERE on there, and make sure the list knows about it.
Also take care to make certain that your work is somewhere
below /Artwork so that busy folks can sort without roaming
through reams of mailing list flog.  Thanks again...

THINGS TO GET WORKING ON:

 * We are really missing some good Edubuntu development,
   which is unfortunate.  I would suspect that the 
   Edubuntu folks would appreciate _something_ to build on,
   even if for future releases.

 * Many of the wallpapers people are submitting haven't tried
   to extrapolate them into the other components.  It would
   look very lazy to just use a wallpaper as a background
   for the Logon, not to mention simply unprofessional.  Yes, 
   this means you jmak (for U and X if you can manage it), 
   Weidel, Who_, etc.  If you submitted content, consider
   it an obligation to at least try and present a 'look / feel'
   spanning all four specs. ;)

 * I encourage _everyone_ who intends to get proposals in
   to try and provide a series of usplash/logon/lsplash/wallpaper
   sheet sets for EACH loose concept.  This means that you will
   need to prove that your ideas can coordinate and work
   together across the four specs AND work within the existing
   framework (EG:  Human Icons, Window Borders, etc.)

 * Our specifications for FUTURE work need fleshing out. 
   In particular:
 
   * Accessibility artwork is a MUST finish item for an
     operating system that considers itself to be 'for human
     beings'.  Some of this work is dead easy to start now like
     SVG'ing existing Human icons into the higher contrast
     looks.  Good experiment for folks who want to learn Inkscape,
     with a useful byproduct as well.  Finish off those icons
     folks!
   * Edgy +1 longer term issues?  No one has any?  Great, 
     that means there won't be a glut of email to the list
     when Edgy +1 development starts!  Seriously though folks,
     if you have things that you would like to see get 'done',
     get those specifications in.  Make them look top notch
     so that the guiding developers will take you seriously
     and approve them.

 * Keep your chin up as the slogging work starts!  Everyone
   will probably grow sick to death of the work once we
   start pounding out the Production and Polish.  It's the
   nature of the beast, and I hope everyone will persist to
   really finish up the work.  It is very easy to simply
   'try something new' when you get bored after having 
   spewed out an idea.  It is very hard to elevate the work
   to polished and final.

Awsome progress this cycle folks!
Let's keep it up and build on the 
momentum.



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