[ubuntu-art] artwork for the Ubuntu idea brainstorming website

[Troy James Sobotka]

Amazing work!

Nicolas Deschildre wrote:
> The QA team and I have been developing the future Ubuntu idea
> brainstorming website, codenamed tokamak (cf blueprint [1]). Another
> separate module will also track the most hated bug by allowing to vote
> for them. The website is beginning to mature, and we have a test
> server here [2].

Wonderful ideas in there.

A few quick questions:

1 - I have long promoted the ditching of the Ubuntu title font
in everything outside of the word "Ubuntu".  Are you against changing
the 'logo' to a font outside of the Ubuntu title font family?  It
is a sub-optimal font for anything other than the Ubuntu name.

2 - I assume you are providing a quick mechanism to link in with
Launchpad services?  Bugs / Blueprints / etc?  The "copy / paste"
links are a very smart inclusion.

3 - Are you going to include categories?  I would imagine a big slush
is sub-optimal.

> But unfortunately my artistic skills are not as good as my programming
> ones! We will need to work on the following artwork:
> - Two banners, one for the Ubuntu idea brainstorming part, and one for
> the Ubuntu most hated bug tracker.

4 - Having created that little ISO testing icon image, I don't mind
trying my hand at the banners, but you forgot to mention destination
format needs.  Size?  Where will it be integrated in the samples
you provided?

> - Some "images links". An "image link" is a image template, in which
> we add some text with GD. Their purpose is to be published on external
> website and forums to promote an idea or a hated bug. See for example
> [3] and [4], with some concept images. What I had in mind ATM was one
> small image link, static, and one bigger, containing the title of the
> idea/bug and the number of votes. But size and number can be
> discussed.

4 - Can you provide some details on the dynamic nature of the font? In
particular how big is a worst case scenario in terms of letters?  What
other information is going to be in there in terms of letters or
numbers?  I assume you are using Imagemagick as a back end, and as
such, are there limitations in the font selection?

5 - Is this to be supplied via a Canonical server or a third party
server location?

Once again, this is a wonderful idea...
TJS

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