First I'd like to say that I give Andy a lot of credit for sticking his neck out there and making an effort at starting a set of usable guidelines. We have some in place already and they could use a little work which I think he is getting a good start on.
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 believe that submission for consideration can be in a raster format if the artist is comfortable with that however it is not a requirement. If the wallpaper needs to be in that format to be useful to the project then it is necessary to let the artists know that we appreciate all their contributions but they must know that any images to be usable as the default desktop will eventually need to be in this format or someone from the art team can convert the file for them with their permission if necessary.
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
The Flickr page is fine for people to have a place to submit their creations and the site itself is a good place to get publicity showing how we all contribute and work together as unified teams. This in itself is good publicity and draws attention for more contributors to want to get involved and contribute their own creations. Therefore I think Flickr definitely has its place. As a place for potential submission of release wallpaper? It can work for that if people choose to submit their work there, however I think these submissions should be separated into a page within openSUSE as Andy had done already http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Wallpapers_12.2. If something is found on Flickr that another person "thinks" should be considered, write a comment to the artist asking if they will submit it to the wiki page for consideration if the work meets all the licensing and originality requirements. If the artist needs help with that then make every effort to help them or even do it for them.
Kenneth Wimer said 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.
I like this idea and would say that the judges should be no one from the art team as their opinion may be biased in one direction or another.
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)
This I totally agree on and believe that it should be very well explained and offer screenshot images of the licensing selection from each of the various image collection sites that we currently manage. Example would be a screenshot image of the licensing selection as would be appropriate on Flickr. If people can see exactly what radio button they should be selecting then there is little room for misunderstanding the first time around. We have to keep in mind that we are appealing to the world population which means the young to old and uneducated to genius.
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)
I think this idea is really cool since the circling balls during boot
has been well received. Or we could have a lizard that runs across the
screen as the loading bar, I don't know, I'm just throwing things out
there.
Ideally we want to make sure that the necessary information is made
available to anyone wishing to contribute in any way they wish. On the
other hand we don't want to come across as so restrictive no one wants
to get involved because we create such a "fine line" the process
required to contribute is no longer fun but overly restrictive and
confining.
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Andres Silva
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
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
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)
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
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