Artwork
In this section, we cover the Fedora Artwork Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
Near to the Echo
Pursuing the declared goal of having the new Echo icon theme ready to be used as a default in Fedora 10, Martin Sourada and Luya Tshimbalanga continued the development and posting updates[1], [2], gathering feed-back and improvement proposals on @fedora-art. Martin even created an animated demo "also prepared animated gif (slideshow) [3] so you can see all the icons in one batch" and blogged about it.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-September/msg00202.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-September/msg00248.html
[3] http://mso.fedorapeople.org/echo/Actions/mail-all.gif
[4] http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2008/09/batch-of-new-mail-echo-icon.html
Freedom for a game
Nicu Buculei relayed[1] to @fedora-art a request from the Hans deGoede, of Games SIG fame: the Project: Starfighter game[2], which used to be included in Fedora, was discovered of having some non-free graphic files and need free replacements to be re-included. Erick Henrique offered[3] his help "I go to unpack the archive starfighter.pak and to study a form of I redesign everything in a new style" and Hans promised[4] to code a needed utility "About recreating the .pak file I need to write a little utility for that, hopefully I'll have time for that this weekend."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-September/msg00231.html
[2] http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/starfighter.php
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-September/msg00246.html
[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-September/msg00291.html
Infrastructure change for Fedora Art
After an IRC consultation with Mairin Duffy, Martin Sourada proposed[1] using fedorahosted.org services for the Art team "it might be worth setting up a fedorahosted.org instance for the Fedora Art Team. Primary purpose would be to host our release graphics, but it could serve other purposes as well (e.g. using ticket system for design service come to my mind)", an initiative received with open arms by Luya Tshimbalanga and with some skepticism[3] by Ian Weller "I'm personally all for the idea, but I knew there were some caveats that we should definitely look into before we even think about proceeding. I'd also like to see Mo's input, of course." and Nicu Buculei[4] "I am strongly against something which would raise the barrier to entry, so a NO-NO would be to require git to upload sketches (proposals) for the upcoming release."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-September/msg00242.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-September/msg00247.html
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-September/msg00263.html
[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-September/msg00267.html