Hi all, Comments on the flickr contest inline below: On Oct 3, 2012, at 4:28 AM, Andres Silva wrote:
Given some of our member's suggestions, I have reviewed the list of do's for 12.3. Please read carefully and give a vote if you agree with the steps. If a majority agrees, we will start making the arrangements for these tasks to see the light.
1 Encourage the use of raster images for wallpaper (Using Flickr artwork pool to draw images) Add more places for submissions (email, social networks, etc) Use raster for the final wallpaper and not for its creation necessarily
I agree that flickr is definitely better suited to raster images (i.e. photos). However, I would not forbid vector. Someone could make a very nice vector image as wallpaper. Most likely, that vector would be rendered to a raster format for actual use (due to rendering time, quality and use of effects like shadows, etc.). The best reason for using flickr is that we can draw new talent to it through its existing user-base. In order for this to work we need to get the word out to a wider audience which means blogging about it, putting it on the website, the topic of the irc channel, etc. Without this, our flickr page would end up just being a place where existing talent uploads the same stuff they have been so far. That does't seem like the reason behind the effort :-)
2 Flickr is used, make sure that the uploader is responsible for the correct liscensing of the image (Provide information about branding people's artwork) Provide links for licensing images Follow up with creators for their work and how they licensed it Make a decision on what license works best for digital art
Yes, it needs to be very clearly stated that all uploaded images need to use the correct license. If someone uploads something that does not use the right license we need to contact them and ask them to please use the right one - if they refuse their image cannot be considered for inclusion. I would suggest have a panel of "judges" to decide which images are selected. Having the whole community vote on something like this simply won't work well - trust me on this one, I have been down that road several times with teams much larger than ours and it simply leads to too much useless discussion and lowers the quality of the images selected. The judges would rank each picture. The ranking should be private and each judge would not be allowed to rank their own images. Also, we should rotate the judges every release.
3 Create upload guidelines for artwork contributors (Although there are some guidelines about this, there is no specific place for copyright in the wiki) Create a wiki page for explaining licensing Promote licensing on our submission areas (Flickr, social networks, etc)
Copyright stays with the artist, it only needs to be freely licensed for all usage. In my experience the best photographers will not want to give others the right to edit their photos - we should handle this issue case by case. As for guidelines, here is what I would include: • No brand names or trademarks of any kind. • No illustrations some may consider inappropriate, offensive, hateful, tortuous, defamatory, slanderous or libelous. • No sexually explicit or provocative images. • No images of weapons or violence. • No alcohol, tobacco, or drug use imagery. • No designs which promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against groups or individuals; or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age. • No religious, political, or nationalist imagery. • No branding assets or text to permit use by derivative distributions. • Your image should strive for subtlety and poetry. • Regardless of the role or inspiration, the desired result of the successful submissions will render feelings which may be described as light, bright, or cheerful. • Avoid high frequency images. ( A soft focus is one way to achieve this ) • As the name suggests, visually, it should settle into the “background” of the activity scene. • Design must accommodate the pieces of both the gnome and kde desktop (panels, etc.) • The final dimension should be at least 2560 x 1600 pixels so that we can crop and edit where necessary (we might want to discuss this detail) • Submissions must adhere to the Creative Commons ShareAlike 3.0 license (or another free OS license) • Attribution must be declared if the submission is based on another design (this helps avoid possible legal problems down the road) • Avoid prominent use of the openSUSE logo. It appears in enough places already. • No version numbers. Some individuals may desire to use an older theme, or use the latest theme in their older version of openSUSE. Let your submission be about choice and do not use version numbers in your artwork. • Avoid text, it calls for attention too much and will likely look bad when scaled. Plus it can't be translated easily. • Be careful with small patterns, they might become uneven when scaled. • Consider how the wallpaper will interact with the panels, icons and windows. • Show restraint in your use of color tone and contrast. The wallpaper sets the scene for other elements, it is not the main act. • Use PNG format for bitmap files (ie any files in which fewer colors are repeated throughout, especially when the colors are in large blocks). Use JPGs for photos and final images in order to reduce the file size, as this format can cause visible compression artefacts. • Make the XCF source files available, if you happen to work with GIMP • Use SVG for vector art. • Work generated with proprietary applications like Photoshop and Illustrator is acceptable, but files in their formats are useless for many of us.
4 Change default font to OPEN SANS on KDE. (This font family is extensive and looks extra sharp on both KDE and GNOME, use full rgb subpixel rendering on KDE by default) Start with KDE first and then decide if it will work properly on Gnome
5 Change Plymouth to a progress bar with a sparkling end (per request of some contributors and to keep a simple elegant understanding of the boot process, more details to come)
6. Change/improve styling on YAST
7 Change KDE splash screen to match Plymouth
8 Keep default splash screens for applications
Thank you Andy (anditosan)
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