[ubuntu-art] // External opinions on Ubuntu Art //

[Pascal Klein]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:43 +0200, Julian Oliver wrote:
> ..on Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:51:45PM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> > Julian Oliver wrote:
> > > i lecture and give workshops at a few Design academies around the EU, 
> > > but focus more on interactive art and game development using FOSS. 
> > > if there was interest, i could talk it over with a department head and
> > > plan a day-long class excercise. i think students would love it - both
> > > play with and critique a whole new OS for a day.
> > >   
> > 
> > I think this group would very much appreciate that sort of analysis,
> > especially if it could be folded into a single top down review of Human
> > as part of the Edgy planning process.
> 
> ok great, i'll make it a priority to get in contact with a few design
> schools i am involved with (or have contacts within) and let you all know how i get on.
> 
> if anyone else has any contacts within an academy in their area (even
> via a friend) let us know about it in this thread. 

I live in Canberra, Australia and we have two universities in the city
of about 330,000 (yeah, it's quite cool :o) ).

I am sure I could try and set up a standalone system that has an
internet connection, running Dapper out of the box and allow a string of
people to use it and answer a few questions.

Perhaps we could create an agreed question sheet or something of the
sort which we would kindly ask experienced users to fill in and another
one to complete computing newcomers.

As a final note, I really think something like this could greatly
benefit Ubuntu. We would be able to get some feedback on the work we
enjoy doing and through it allow us to see where there may yet be
problems and issues to solve.

The desktop team has been contacted about this I assume? :)

What do you all think?


Kind regards,
Pascal Klein

> until then it may be good to start a "ubuntu art crit" wiki page and isolate
> key areas we're interested in getting feedback on, while leaving room
> for people's wider opinions to be voiced.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> julian
> 
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