If anyone hasn't tried googles picasa its a good place to store and organize wallpaper. Although flickr may work just as well. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:00 AM, <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-art-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-art-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Send ubuntu-art mailing list submissions to <a href="mailto:ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com</a> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to <a href="mailto:ubuntu-art-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-art-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a> You can reach the person managing the list at <a href="mailto:ubuntu-art-owner@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-art-owner@lists.ubuntu.com</a> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-art digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: hello (D?vid Horv?th) 2. Re: hello (Thorsten Wilms) 3. Re: hello ( Boudhayan Gupta) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:18:25 +0200 From: D?vid Horv?th <<a href="mailto:chronos.hun@gmail.com">chronos.hun@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] hello To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:5194de740910070018r39c409b3xcb49261cca0fffb5@mail.gmail.com">5194de740910070018r39c409b3xcb49261cca0fffb5@mail.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I see that we are gathering :) I'm in the game too! I suppose to be a programmer. We need a coordinator. Anyone? Cheers, David from Hungary 2009/10/7 Raymond O'Brien <<a href="mailto:ray@obakk.com">ray@obakk.com</a>> > Hello, > > I am multimedia designer in Ireland and would be interested in > offering any help i can here. > > Raymond O'Brien > > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art</a> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/attachments/20091007/22849359/attachment-0001.htm" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/attachments/20091007/22849359/attachment-0001.htm</a> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:20:25 +0200 From: Thorsten Wilms <<a href="mailto:t_w_@freenet.de">t_w_@freenet.de</a>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] hello To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Message-ID: <1254903625.4220.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:18 +0200, D?vid Horv?th wrote: > We need a coordinator. Anyone? Well, lets start with some information :) You all should have a look at our wiki, if you haven't already: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork</a> The next release is scheduled for the 29th of October, so it doesn't make any sense to start something new for it. It's very early in the game for the next cycle, 10.04: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule</a> It's very important that you understand that the community does not create the default artwork. There have been exceptions regarding the wallpaper, but I wouldn't count on that happening again. There's a design team at Canonical. Friendly and at least in part very approachable people, but it still is a bit like a black box. Often all we get to see are the final decisions at the very end of the process, the reasoning, the strategy remaining somewhat of a mystery. So what do we get to do? Create and package themes. It's best I leave it to those actually involved to tell you more about it. Create wallpapers. <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Backgrounds" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Backgrounds</a> For earlier cycles, everyone who felt like it would add a separate page to the wiki for their wallpapers. This time it was tightly organized, only to run into a nasty issue with wiki engine: If you request too many "items" in quick succession, the wiki refuses to deliver. It's called a "surge protection". That means that on pages with many images, not all will load. If you then try to view additional images, the wiki answers with a warning to slow down. It's a reported issue. Entirely new in this cycle was using Flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/pool/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/pool/</a> A selection from these went into <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1188458@N24/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/groups/1188458@N24/</a> My recommendation: Do not even allow wallpaper submissions on the wiki for the Lucid Lynx cycle. The wiki just doesn't work for this and it's not fair to contributors to let them add stuff that will be ignored, anyway. Plus any wallpaper showing up there would encourage others to add theirs. Instead point to Flickr (if no one can offer an alternative). So far I got no feedback on this at all. In case some of you would be interested in creating a web-service: having a site where you can upload wallpapers (and similar artwork), with automatic thumbnail generation, nested comments and maybe even versioning would rock ;) The countdown banners have been mentioned. <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/KarmicCountdownBanners" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/KarmicCountdownBanners</a> It will be a while until the call for 10.04 banners ... There's an entirely community driven and well organized project working on an icon theme: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/BreatheIconSet" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/BreatheIconSet</a> Note that there are many open-source projects that could benefit from some help with artwork, interaction design and obviously programming, if you don't find something here. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: <a href="http://thorwil.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://thorwil.wordpress.com/</a> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:34:19 +0530 From: " Boudhayan Gupta" <<a href="mailto:bg13.ina@gmail.com">bg13.ina@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] hello To: "Discussion on Ubuntu artwork" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:hXRs45FMzDgf.HlmxdtTP@smtp.gmail.com">hXRs45FMzDgf.HlmxdtTP@smtp.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear Thorsten, I can help with the wallpaper website, but I need some hosting space which should be able to run WordPress 2.8. Could you manage some? Yours, Boudhayan Gupta +91 97483 78224 Sent from my Nokia(R) 9300i Communicator(TM) _____ Original message _____ Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] hello Author: Thorsten Wilms <<a href="mailto:t_w_@freenet.de">t_w_@freenet.de</a>> Date: 07th October 2009 1:50:25 PM On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:18 +0200, D?vid Horv?th wrote: > We need a coordinator. Anyone? Well, lets start with some information :) You all should have a look at our wiki, if you haven't already: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork</a> The next release is scheduled for the 29th of October, so it doesn't make any sense to start something new for it. It's very early in the game for the next cycle, 10.04: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule</a> It's very important that you understand that the community does not create the default artwork. There have been exceptions regarding the wallpaper, but I wouldn't count on that happening again. There's a design team at Canonical. Friendly and at least in part very approachable people, but it still is a bit like a black box. Often all we get to see are the final decisions at the very end of the process, the reasoning, the strategy remaining somewhat of a mystery. So what do we get to do? Create and package themes. It's best I leave it to those actually involved to tell you more about it. Create wallpapers. <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Backgrounds" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Backgrounds</a> For earlier cycles, everyone who felt like it would add a separate page to the wiki for their wallpapers. This time it was tightly organized, only to run into a nasty issue with wiki engine: If you request too many "items" in quick succession, the wiki refuses to deliver. It's called a "surge protection". That means that on pages with many images, not all will load. If you then try to view additional images, the wiki answers with a warning to slow down. It's a reported issue. Entirely new in this cycle was using Flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/pool/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/pool/</a> A selection from these went into <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1188458@N24/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/groups/1188458@N24/</a> My recommendation: Do not even allow wallpaper submissions on the wiki for the Lucid Lynx cycle. The wiki just doesn't work for this and it's not fair to contributors to let them add stuff that will be ignored, anyway. Plus any wallpaper showing up there would encourage others to add theirs. Instead point to Flickr (if no one can offer an alternative). So far I got no feedback on this at all. In case some of you would be interested in creating a web-service: having a site where you can upload wallpapers (and similar artwork), with automatic thumbnail generation, nested comments and maybe even versioning would rock ;) The countdown banners have been mentioned. <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/KarmicCountdownBanners" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/KarmicCountdownBanners</a> It will be a while until the call for 10.04 banners ... There's an entirely community driven and well organized project working on an icon theme: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/BreatheIconSet" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/BreatheIconSet</a> Note that there are many open-source projects that could benefit from some help with artwork, interaction design and obviously programming, if you don't find something here. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: <a href="http://thorwil.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://thorwil.wordpress.com/</a> -- ubuntu-art mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art</a> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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