[ubuntu-art] gallery aka art.ubuntu.com

[Kenneth Wimer]

On Thursday 11 October 2007 00:05:01 Nick Bauermeister wrote:
> Hi,
>
> sorry for the dumb question first but why exactly has art.ubuntu.com
> taken down in the first place?
> We still have an own thread in the german Ubuntu community for it and
> many people keep asking when it's coming back.

It was taken down because it was hosted externally and was one of the sites 
which were recently hacked.

>
> I think using art.ubuntu for proposals would be a great thing, because
> this way we will get back an Ubuntu related artwork community but make
> sure it will be high quality artwork, since it should be designed to get
> into Ubuntu only.
>
> If you look for 'Ubuntu' on sites like gnome-look, most entries are
> ripoffs with a Ubuntu logo pasted on a picture or something like this.
> So it would be nice to have a place for creative people that are aiming
> to get their stuff into Ubuntu but their work won't be lost, if it
> doesn't make it.

Right, but is the artwork any better on ubuntu-art.org? It is the same code as 
gnome-look.org but was made just for ubuntu...not sure that having yet 
another site would increase the quality of the artwork. What would probably 
help things would be point to whichever site we decide upon in the wiki, 
mailing list, irc, etc.

--
Ken