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| doctormo | thorwil: Hello | 12:50 |
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| thorwil | hi doctormo | 12:59 |
| doctormo | thorwil: Is a competition ok if the aim of the event is to train underdeveloped artists? | 13:00 |
| thorwil | doctormo: i'd say yes, if that objective is clear to everyone | 13:01 |
| doctormo | Yes, thanks. Having a good day thorwil? | 13:02 |
| thorwil | doctormo: mixed. always suffering from the what-i-should-be-doing vs what-i-would-like-to-do split :) | 13:04 |
| thorwil | at least the weather is flooding us with sunshine, here | 13:04 |
| thorwil | doctormo: you? | 13:05 |
| doctormo | thorwil: the sunshine sounds nice. I've just come out of a really harsh night of sleepish. | 13:08 |
| doctormo | recovery will take all day I think | 13:08 |
| doctormo | Plus it's so damn dry here. 5% humidity last night. I had to turn on the vaporisor to improve things. | 13:10 |
| thorwil | oh. don'r even have a vaporiser and never missed one | 13:11 |
| thorwil | doctormo: what kind of competition do you have in mind? | 13:11 |
| doctormo | thorwil: Not mine, was advising someone else. | 13:14 |
| thorwil | doctormo: in some way, typical assignments in design foundation classes are similar to contests. same task for everyone and results will be compared, though there's usually no "winner" | 13:16 |
| thorwil | comparison and reflection within the group is important, then | 13:18 |
| doctormo | Yes, makes sense. Of course winners can be useful too. I guess it depends on the kind of play environment that is sort to teach. | 13:18 |
| doctormo | thorwil: I wish there was some way to make the art team more professional. | 19:28 |
| doctormo | We don't have good training (any at all) | 19:28 |
| doctormo | We're not using the beginners team | 19:28 |
| doctormo | And we can't seem to get rid of that carbuncle jbaer, who seems to delight in making a competition out of everything. | 19:29 |
| thorwil | doctormo: so do i. i'm currently operating under the assumption that i can't afford to really care, though | 19:29 |
| doctormo | yea, I know, it's a royal pain, because there are teams who know to come directly to us | 19:30 |
| doctormo | and then there are teams that come to the team and are mislead. | 19:30 |
| thorwil | i'm wondering if anyone will bother setting john's "Most artist are posting to ..." http://www.flickr.com/groups/uawt-10-0/ straight | 19:33 |
| doctormo | thorwil: I don't understand, he's not saying most artists are posting to | 19:38 |
| doctormo | And even if he was, there is nowhere else to post to. | 19:38 |
| doctormo | I certainly haven't enabled the deviantArt submission. | 19:39 |
| thorwil | doctormo: actually, he is saying that | 19:40 |
| thorwil | doctormo: why that? wasn't the last design blog post about that pointing to your deviantart group? | 19:40 |
| doctormo | thorwil: If you look, I've switched off submissions to the gallery containing last cycle's. | 19:42 |
| doctormo | I just have no confidence that this competition makes any sort of sense. | 19:43 |
| thorwil | doctormo: i think you didn't communicate that, so far | 19:44 |
| thorwil | doctormo: so does that mean the design blog and wiki happily point to a place where nobody can submit anything? and on top, this fact hasn't led to any noise? | 19:45 |
| doctormo | thorwil: I don't think the link from the wiki and design blog should ever have pointed to deviantArt (for the same reasons I don't think | 19:45 |
| doctormo | they should point to flikr) | 19:45 |
| doctormo | the whole point of the deviantArt thing is to encourage existing deviantArt users and especially the 700 members of ubuntu-artists group to get involved. | 19:46 |
| doctormo | I could quite easily just point them to somewhere else using a blog entry or two. | 19:46 |
| thorwil | http://design.canonical.com/2011/01/the-natty-wallpaper-contest-an-important-update/ | 19:48 |
| thorwil | i mixed something up. that one points to flickr | 19:48 |
| doctormo | yep, that agrees with my memory | 19:49 |
| thorwil | but https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase does point to http://ubuntu-artists.deviantart.com/ for "illustrative" wallpapers | 19:49 |
| doctormo | would you like me to fix it? | 19:49 |
| thorwil | doctormo: depends on the fix ;) | 19:50 |
| doctormo | thorwil: there you gp | 19:50 |
| doctormo | go | 19:51 |
| thorwil | doctormo: *if* Iain didn't clear this up with you, he deserves this to fall back on him | 19:51 |
| doctormo | I can't even get Iain to remove to redundant and confusing deviantArt group. If you see him, let him know. | 19:52 |
| thorwil | how lovely organized it all seems | 19:56 |
| doctormo | thorwil: It's very "I don't know what" | 19:58 |
| coz_ | hey all | 20:43 |
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