If I can find some time tonight, I will be attempting a wiki update. What I would like to do is trim the incoming dir and migrate several items to 'Need Sorting' directories.
We need four solid edgy incoming pages for each item, plus one summary page for referencing at a distance. This reflects the four primary specifications for open development. Frank and Ken are frantically skittling around in the background making sure some of the demons in the details get taken care of. If someone takes some time to do a little art legwork and sort out the submissions into a clearer structure, I would be thankful. The bottom line -- if you want to make sure your material is included in this update, try to get it all in by midnight PST Saturday the 22nd. This isn't any sort of official final notice, as I try to keep current, but my schedule is ugly so I don't know how often I am going to be able to do a semi-official cleanup summary. They really should be done on the checkpoints in the breakdown (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/EdgyArtworkPlan ) and we hit a checkpoint on the 20th. Good time for a selection of feedback too, so I will try to get something in place to take care of that. Thanks for any help anyone can offer (and I do mean ANY), TJS PS: According to the breakdown, our Proposal phase ends on the 7th of August, so please make sure that your attempts are paper documented on the wiki for feedback. Get it SOMEWHERE on there, and make sure the list knows about it. Also take care to make certain that your work is somewhere below /Artwork so that busy folks can sort without roaming through reams of mailing list flog. Thanks again... THINGS TO GET WORKING ON: * We are really missing some good Edubuntu development, which is unfortunate. I would suspect that the Edubuntu folks would appreciate _something_ to build on, even if for future releases. * Many of the wallpapers people are submitting haven't tried to extrapolate them into the other components. It would look very lazy to just use a wallpaper as a background for the Logon, not to mention simply unprofessional. Yes, this means you jmak (for U and X if you can manage it), Weidel, Who_, etc. If you submitted content, consider it an obligation to at least try and present a 'look / feel' spanning all four specs. ;) * I encourage _everyone_ who intends to get proposals in to try and provide a series of usplash/logon/lsplash/wallpaper sheet sets for EACH loose concept. This means that you will need to prove that your ideas can coordinate and work together across the four specs AND work within the existing framework (EG: Human Icons, Window Borders, etc.) * Our specifications for FUTURE work need fleshing out. In particular: * Accessibility artwork is a MUST finish item for an operating system that considers itself to be 'for human beings'. Some of this work is dead easy to start now like SVG'ing existing Human icons into the higher contrast looks. Good experiment for folks who want to learn Inkscape, with a useful byproduct as well. Finish off those icons folks! * Edgy +1 longer term issues? No one has any? Great, that means there won't be a glut of email to the list when Edgy +1 development starts! Seriously though folks, if you have things that you would like to see get 'done', get those specifications in. Make them look top notch so that the guiding developers will take you seriously and approve them. * Keep your chin up as the slogging work starts! Everyone will probably grow sick to death of the work once we start pounding out the Production and Polish. It's the nature of the beast, and I hope everyone will persist to really finish up the work. It is very easy to simply 'try something new' when you get bored after having spewed out an idea. It is very hard to elevate the work to polished and final. Awsome progress this cycle folks! Let's keep it up and build on the momentum.
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