Re: Linuxtag Germany (Berlin) 2011 -- recap
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de> wrote:
> * get more artists attracted to Debian and encourage them to contribute
> in some way that we may not even foresee, yet.... it's art after all.
> How to render Debian more attractive to artists I don't really know.
Valessio Brito has been trying to push this a bit through things like
art.debian.net.
> What comes to mind:
> o a Debian blend for art?
pkg-multimedia folks were thinking about starting some blends, I think
this could fit well there.
> o better visibility of authorships for contributed art throughout the
> system, to help the artists' promotion?
The chosen desktop themes in desktop-base get good coverage in the
more popular desktops (GNOME, KDE etc) but things like GNUStep,
openbox, awesome don't use the default themes yet.
> o competitions, prices?
Some competitions happen at art.debian.net, for example the recent
Debian and Debian women mascots
> * strengthen the concept of Blends more for various communities. This
> may help to ensure more complete workflows for various user groups
> and increases the likelihood that because of particular ties between
> users and developers the one or other piece of glue code may find
> its way into the archive, which may not fit to any particular package
> but ist just helpful in some way,
+1
I plan to start some game-related blends at some stage. I need to dig
a bit more into the technical side of blends first though.
http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Blends
--
bye,
pabs
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