Hi! Earlier in this cycle we talked to John Baer to put together a spec for artwork in Edubuntu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/0006_Edubuntu_Natty_Wallpaper
It produced the following results so far: http://www.flickr.com/groups/uawt-6/ Some are nice and I think we should include it in the system, but in my humble opinion they're not really suitable for a default wallpaper. Martin Owens (http://doctormo.org/) is willing to create us a wallpaper as well, he's willing to commit a lot of work on making something really good, but (understandably) doesn't want to do that in a competition style. I think we should take him up on it, if only for increasing our chances of having a real nice wallpaper with the final relase. If we go ahead and take him up on his offer, he'll need the following information from us: * Solid things that we want (and don't want) * Definition, concept and mood What I propose is: 1. We contact the artwork team and notifying them of the wallpapers we'll include in the system from the current submissions. 2. Take Martin up on creating a default wallpaper for Edubuntu If there's no particular objections by Friday I'll just go ahead with it. I'll kickstart some discussion by adding what I think we want for the wallpaper, but since I'm not particularly the target market for Edubuntu, we'll definitely want to get at least a bit larger input on this. Solid things that we want (and don't want): Want: * Wallpaper that looks good with our current panels (current wallpaper is too light and low contrast) * Pleasant colours and textures that aren't too noisy (allows us to put icons over it or text on login screens, etc) Do not want: * The usual clichés that we've seen a million times, blackboards, books, worms with apples, world maps, etc Definition, concept and mood: Michael Hall suggested on IRC that we avoice something cartoonish. Personally I liked Martin's cartoonish debian card (http://doctormo.org/2011/02/06/congratulations-debian/), but imho there is a fine line between something that looks cartoonish and childlike and something that just looks childish, ideally we should have a default that's fun enough for someone who is six years old and conservative enough for an 18 year old. This definition, concept and mood part is tough so if you have suggestions, then please expand by Friday! -Jonathan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
