We don't have anyone at this point :P so Everyone is welcome. Can you contact him, and ask? Best Regards, Eugene Trounev [it-s] On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Victor hck wrote:

Hi !

What about Tian2992 ?? - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tian2992/

He's a openSUSE user and member (I think) And he told me that he would like to contribute...

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Hi all, I previously worked for Canonical and one of the artwork community efforts I pushed forward was the wallpaper contest on flickr - http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/. It might be a good idea to start something like this because it draws from a wider audience, brings more attention to the project and is a great way to get loads of good photos for all kinds of things Also, I do photography as well as design so if any help is needed just say the word :-) Kenneth Wimer -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Rajko wrote:

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:20:14 -0400 Eugene Trounev wrote:

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Can you contact him, and ask?

tian2992 is usually in IRC #opensuse-marketing , but today I invited him to artwork channel.

Although we should ask him, which I forget to do, he is active opensuse member, so there is no problems.

I'll link some of his photos in a wiki page later today.

Also, when on topic, I have to find yaloki's photos on picasa web.

Don't forget plain old illustration of wiki articles, like this one http://www.flickr.com/photos/tian2992/5331829915/in/photostream for article:"why not root?" :)

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Any news out there? Has any of the photographers replied?

I send a couple emails to the photographers but I have no answer :(

Don't be disappointed. I expect very few to be interested as currently we offer very little to attract them, at least in infrastructure terms. Bleak wiki page is not something that people with talent and appreciation for visual arts will look at for the second time. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

The most valuable I think would be some insights on your community work for Ubuntu :) Since you have done that before maybe a few pointers on how to get started with that. I never used flickr :) Best Regards, Eugene Trounev [it-s] On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Kenneth Wimer wrote:

Hi all,

I previously worked for Canonical and one of the artwork community efforts I pushed forward was the wallpaper contest on flickr - http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/. It might be a good idea to start something like this because it draws from a wider audience, brings more attention to the project and is a great way to get loads of good photos for all kinds of things

Also, I do photography as well as design so if any help is needed just say the word :-)

Kenneth Wimer -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany

On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Rajko wrote:

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On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:20:14 -0400 Eugene Trounev wrote:

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Can you contact him, and ask?

tian2992 is usually in IRC #opensuse-marketing , but today I invited him to artwork channel.

Although we should ask him, which I forget to do, he is active opensuse member, so there is no problems.

I'll link some of his photos in a wiki page later today.

Also, when on topic, I have to find yaloki's photos on picasa web.

Don't forget plain old illustration of wiki articles, like this one http://www.flickr.com/photos/tian2992/5331829915/in/photostream for article:"why not root?" :)

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Hi, I could write a book about community efforts - it is quite complicated and I am not sure if there is a fool proof plan :P What I found works best in drawing new contributions is two things: 1) Empower the people already in the community by helping them not only to contribute and take part by sharing the responsibilities but also to teach and help them where possible. It is easy to say "I do artwork". How many people really have that much experience and knowledge though? Those who do should help mentor those who are still learning. Naturally even those with lots of experience and skills also keep learning so being flexible and considerate at all times has top priority. 2) Find out in which channels people are already active and use those to your benefit. We chose flickr because it is free and there are a *LOT* of good photographers already there. This made it a) easy to contribute and b) easy to find new contributors. There was a lot of discussion around using flicker because it is not open source, etc. but in the end it was definitely the right choice - just look at the pics and judge for yourself. Oh, one last important thing, we also created a sort of jury to select the images which are included in every release. The jury was made up of employees doing design and members of the community. Once we got the ball rolling we picked jury members out of the "winners" from the last round. This helped to encourage new contributors to keep going and kept the whole process fresh. Hope that helps :-) Kenneth Wimer -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Rajko wrote:

On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:56:15 +0200 Kenneth Wimer wrote:

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Hi all,

I previously worked for Canonical and one of the artwork community efforts I pushed forward was the wallpaper contest on flickr - http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/.

I was there before. Some of Ubuntu's wallpapers are so exciting that I looked for more and found above. That is also what I hope we can achieve here in openSUSE, to bring the same fascination and (insatiable) hunger for more.

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It might be a good idea to start something like this because it draws from a wider audience, brings more attention to the project and is a great way to get loads of good photos for all kinds of things

I think that too, it is just too little time on my hands to explore existing options and learn how to use them, so I join Eugene's question about some directions.

...

Also, I do photography as well as design so if any help is needed just say the word :-)

Right man for the moment :)

...

Kenneth Wimer

PS.

Not to forget again one tool that could be very useful when browsing for ideas: http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr/ (I put that in some mail, but it seems that one never left my computer)

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On Tuesday 31 July 2012 20.51:16 Rajko wrote:

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:01:37 -0400 Eugene Trounev wrote:

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Ping guys. Any news out there? Has any of the photographers replied? Lets keep this alive, otherwise it will just be lost and forgotten.

Waiting for Kenneth to answer and doing some homework.

Created "opensuse-artwork" which will be in sync with mail list and IRC channel names.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/2048634@N21/

It is open group so members need no invitation to join.

PS. "part of:" in subject tells that I'll try to keep related discussions in this thread.

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I've checked what proposed there. And the first images has right limited If we want them in distribution don't forget only cc3-by-sa is the right licence. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Ambassador GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 00:34:45 +0200 Kenneth Wimer wrote:

Correct.

I would not simply assign a free license to all of my photos but if my photo wins a contest to be included in something important (it is our job to make it important) then I might think twice. Naturally the rules for inclusion should be clearly stated but there should not be rules for submission.

I would put some elementary rules: * size 1920x1080 - so that we can resize them as needed; this seems to be a modest size for current hardware, * some about content described in a page http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:At_Flickr For the second I would appreciate proofreading and ideas how to enhance it (image of the week? author of the month? etc).

My experience has shown that if you contact a possible "winner" directly they will gladly change the license . Naturally it is important to start the conversation as early as possible.

Maybe to use above page, to tell potential winners that if one wins the contest, it is expected to change license in order to be published as part of distribution. Plan is to link above page from Flickr http://www.flickr.com/groups/opensuse-artwork/ section "About openSUSE-artwork" as soon as it is (at least kind of) ready.

Kenneth Wimer

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Hi, On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:40 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Rajko [08-02-12 17:32]:

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I would put some elementary rules: * size 1920x1080 - so that we can resize them as needed; this seems to be a modest size for current hardware,

1920x1200, still a common size and slightly larger.

Actually there are quite a few rules to establish. Here is link to the info we created at canonical: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Backgrounds Most of that page can be copied 1:1 :-) Kenneth Wimer -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

Speaking of resolutions. Here is is nice article on ultra high-res monitors. Nothing to sweat about right now, but certainly something to consider. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Intel-Higher-Resolution-Displays-Coming,153... Best Regards, Eugene Trounev [it-s] On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:51 AM, andi robert wrote:

I was just thinking that the contributions we have so far are great. However, they do not meet the criteria for a wallpaper. At least for the distribution's purposes, we need artwork that is 1920X1200 as the max size for the picture. A vertically rectangular image cannot make it into the distribution. If we are taking pictures or creating artwork on GIMP or Inkscape, let's keep these size in mind, as it is the base size for the rest of our default included wallpapers.

Can we add this info to the flickr page?

Andy (anditosan)

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Kenneth Wimer wrote:

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Hi,

On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:40 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Rajko [08-02-12 17:32]:

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I would put some elementary rules: * size 1920x1080 - so that we can resize them as needed; this seems to be a modest size for current hardware,

1920x1200, still a common size and slightly larger.

Actually there are quite a few rules to establish. Here is link to the info we created at canonical: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Backgrounds

Most of that page can be copied 1:1 :-)

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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Victor hck wrote:

Hi

I thought the images would not only for wallpapers. That images could be used for other other purposes... Like news, articles, etc...

I see, in that case, the best is to have collections created with these images. Something like Wallpapers Banners Icons Miscellaneous Something like that... Andy (anditosan) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org