Community response of new ubuntu artwork

[Ben Edwards]

"I can certainly see that people in some cultures will be offended by
the images" - this is true but I am equally concerned with the way
they reinforce 'body bucketful'  stereotypes.  Basically we have 3
young slim good looking people - its all very trendy but surly Ubuntu
is for all - old, Yong, slim, not-so-slim.

just my .02 cents Worth.

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:57:10 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at raw.no> wrote:
> * Ryan Thiessen
> 
> | As far as I can tell, there has been no response from any of the
> | Ubuntu developers despite these repeated questions on IRC and on the
> | mailing lists.
> 
> (I'm an ubuntu developer, but have no connection to the artwork, I
> work on amd64.)
> 
> I think the images look nice, I was surprised by them, but after a
> short while, I found them nice-looking and am now running the monthly
> background at home as well as at the university.  I can certainly see
> that people in some cultures will be offended by the images, but I'm
> also sure Mark Shuttleworth has a bunch of aces up his sleeve, still
> to be spent, which should make people worry a lot less.
> 
> As you understand -- this is my personal opinion, it's not any kind of
> offical answer from Canonical, but it's at least one developer's
> personal opinion, for what that's worth.
> 
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