[ubuntu-art] Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 09:48 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote:

> If we are to have illustration wallpapers, let me throw this up: lets
> make a smaller pool of illustrative artwork, and yes, moderate it
> ourselves. But at the end of this cycle lets put up a
> community-illustration-wallpapers package out on the repos. This has
> the added benefit of testing:
> 1. seeing how many quality submissions there are.
> 1.1 this may mean (collective groaning) looking through DA group. and
> convincing those artists to contribute.
> 2. seeing if official ubuntu is interested.
> 2.1 if yes, then they can take over moderating the next cycle
> 2.2 if no, then the least they can do is throw up a blog post (3.1)
> 3. seeing if we as a team can get enough people to actually install
> our
> packages.
> 3.1 whether we can drum up some publicity for this package
> 4. if it all goes down the crapper, then we are left with a few good
> submissions for the community wallpaper package.


I'm not opposed to a single pool for non-photo wallpapers, if you are
that eager, but please not several. I would also lean towards keeping it
open, that is: not tied to a release.

I still think ending up with a choice of quality wallpapers for Edubuntu
and Xubuntu will be a step forward, already.

I expect that at least one person (ideally at least 2, one as fallback),
volunteers for packaging beforehand. If no one takes ownership, you can
forget it.


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