[ubuntu-art] Flickr - What is the desire of this group?

[Kenneth Wimer]

On Wednesday 18 November 2009 06:54:58 pm j_baer wrote:
> I use Flickr and for the most part I am happy with how it works. I
>  discovered large images are cropped to 1024x768 and this may be a problem
>  if we are going to use Flickr for wallpaper submissions (2650x1920).
> 
> I assume this restriction is removed if you purchase a "pro" subscription.
> Although $24.95 is not a lot of money it raises all kinds of physiological
> questions about open source, free, community support, etc.
> 
> Some may question why the wiki is not good enough.
> 
> My question is the desired role of Flickr for the Ubuntu ArtTeam?

Guess I should have answered this email first ;) I was at UDS and simply missed 
it, sorry.

The flckr group is just one way of contributing to the artwork team. It is an 
attempt to enable the existing community as well as an extremely large of 
group of talented non-members to contribute desktop wallpaper-ish artwork. 
It's mainly photos, due to the nature of flickr. In Karmic we used it to 
include some nice non-default wallpapers which has been a feature request for 
years. Note the the selection of images included was done by a team of 
community members and Canonical employees. If you look at the shortlist group 
you see the first round of voting, etc.

Anyway, many of the contributions came from non-pro accounts. The downside to 
that is that they can a) only upload a limited amount of photos and b) can't 
upload high-res versions. In these cases we contacted the person by email. 
There was quite a lot of work in the background contacting everyone, etc ;)

LP, the wiki, mailing list and irc are still our home ;) During Karmic the 
size of the wiki pages became an issue (too many pics per page) so for Lucid 
we'll have to do some gardening now and again to keep things in categories or 
such.
--
Ken