| Adrint | Hello, everyone. Newbie here. | 03:08 |
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| Adrint | Is anyone currently on? | 03:08 |
| pleia2 | Adrint: this channel is pretty quiet, might have more luck on the mailing list :) | 03:09 |
| Adrint | I don't know. The mailing list sounds scary D: | 03:09 |
| Adrint | I'm essentially looking for a place where I can get together with others in the Ubuntu community and toss around ideas :> | 03:11 |
| pleia2 | Adrint: about what specifically? | 03:11 |
| pleia2 | (just trying to figure out where I can point you :)) | 03:11 |
| Adrint | I was sort of wondering exactly how one would go about getting involved with design. Wether it be wallpapers, promotional banners and whatnot. | 03:12 |
| pleia2 | ah, so the artwork team doesn't do a whole lot these days, but they're generally told when there are wallpaper contests each cycle (notification sent out on the mailing list when that starts) | 03:12 |
| pleia2 | and whenever teams need artwork done, they can come to the mailing list to ask artwork folks to design logos and stuff | 03:13 |
| Adrint | Yeah. I was aware of the wallpaper contest. (I even submitted one myself once.) I wondered if there was much else to dive into. | 03:13 |
| pleia2 | most recently was the call for submissions for the updater: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2013-January/013634.html | 03:14 |
| pleia2 | unfortunately not really much | 03:14 |
| pleia2 | but the mailing list is really the best place to sign up, since that's where most discussion happens and calls for help/participation | 03:14 |
| Adrint | Yeah, I subscribed a few moments ago. I thought I'd check out the irc channel to see what might be going on :P | 03:15 |
| pleia2 | :) | 03:16 |
| pleia2 | there was talk on the list a couple months about more people coming here, but it kinda died off | 03:16 |
| Adrint | I see. | 03:16 |
| Adrint | I find it a little bit amusing, we have all of these people working on new icons for Nautilus, the software centre and the software updater. | 03:19 |
| Adrint | But when it comes to the default wallpaper, they flip the old one upside down? | 03:19 |
| Adrint | I never really understood it. | 03:19 |
| pleia2 | lol | 03:20 |
| pleia2 | yeah, I don't know :) Canonical is funny | 03:20 |
| Adrint | Yeah :P | 03:20 |
| Adrint | I love Ubuntu. I use it as my main OS. But I'm scared of scaring people away with the next release partly because of the wallpaper which in my opinion, dosen't fit too well. | 03:21 |
| pleia2 | I dunno, I think a lot of people change the default anyway | 03:21 |
| Adrint | Yeah, that's a given. | 03:21 |
| Adrint | But Imagine being entirely new to ubuntu and you turn the machine on for the first time. | 03:22 |
| * pleia2 shrugs | 03:22 | |
| pleia2 | it doesn't bother me, but I'm not actually an art person :) | 03:22 |
| Adrint | I'm sort of a noob. | 03:22 |
| Adrint | I have some experience playing around a little in Gimp. | 03:23 |
| Adrint | Not much else. | 03:23 |
| Adrint | So what do you think about the way they're taking Unity? | 03:24 |
| pleia2 | I use it on one of my laptops, it's fine for basic work for me, and I love the keybindings | 03:25 |
| pleia2 | but I'm a Xubuntu user most of the time ;) | 03:25 |
| Adrint | I see. | 03:25 |
| Adrint | I primarily use unity aside from on my netbook where I use Lubuntu | 03:26 |
| Adrint | I notice that a lot of the wallpapers that won in the contest had more of a nature-like theme with the occasional mascot. | 03:29 |
| pleia2 | yeah, I think people like flowers | 03:30 |
| Adrint | Perhaps mine was trying too hard to be the default? :P http://www.flickr.com/photos/88058558@N07/8173666046/ | 03:30 |
| pleia2 | hah, perhaps :) | 03:30 |
| Adrint | Maybe next time I'l do the same old frost and flowers things that we see every release. | 03:31 |
| pleia2 | time for me to head off for the evening, good luck | 03:32 |
| Adrint | Good night. | 03:33 |
| Adrint | And good luck to you too. | 03:33 |
| pleia2 | thanks | 03:34 |
| Adrint | np | 03:34 |
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