On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) < jonat...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi > > A few months back John Baer approacedh Edubuntu and offered some > assitance in creating a wallpaper for Edubuntu. He helped us create the > spec on the Ubuntu wiki[1], and since then, there have been a bunch of > submissions on the Flickr group[2]. > > From the Edubuntu side we're happy to have received those submissions, > but there weren't many submissions that fitted the specification well. > We'll be happy to include some of those wallpapers in the system and > feature them in the wallpaper chooser, and thank the contributors for > their work. > > Martin Owens (doctormo) said that he's willing to put some dedicated > work into an Edubuntu wallpaper and can do a few concepts and then > iterations on them. This seems like a better approach than a competition > and might work better for this release. > > John, can we close the current commission for wallpaper on the wiki and > list the wallpapers chosen for inclusion? I know there's technically a > month left on that spec's timelines, but I don't think we were that > likely to receive much more submissions anyway. > > Thanks to everyone involved, I know this might be a bit of a sensitive > issue but if anyone wants to talk to me about it, feel free to poke me. > > -Jonathan > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/0006_Edubuntu_Natty_Wallpaper > [2] http://www.flickr.com/groups/uawt-6/ > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) < jonat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi > > A few months back John Baer approacedh Edubuntu and offered some > assitance in creating a wallpaper for Edubuntu. He helped us create the > spec on the Ubuntu wiki[1], and since then, there have been a bunch of > submissions on the Flickr group[2]. > > From the Edubuntu side we're happy to have received those submissions, > but there weren't many submissions that fitted the specification well. > We'll be happy to include some of those wallpapers in the system and > feature them in the wallpaper chooser, and thank the contributors for > their work. > > Martin Owens (doctormo) said that he's willing to put some dedicated > work into an Edubuntu wallpaper and can do a few concepts and then > iterations on them. This seems like a better approach than a competition > and might work better for this release. > > John, can we close the current commission for wallpaper on the wiki and > list the wallpapers chosen for inclusion? I know there's technically a > month left on that spec's timelines, but I don't think we were that > likely to receive much more submissions anyway. > > Thanks to everyone involved, I know this might be a bit of a sensitive > issue but if anyone wants to talk to me about it, feel free to poke me. > > -Jonathan > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/0006_Edubuntu_Natty_Wallpaper > [2] http://www.flickr.com/groups/uawt-6/ > Jonathan, I am sorry to hear of your decision and I certainly echo my appreciation to everyone who posted wallpaper submissions. Please don't feel the need to respond but if I had been asked I would have suggested Martin add his illustration to the others. Best of luck with your next release. Kind regards, John
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