[03:08] <Adrint> Hello, everyone. Newbie here.
[03:08] <Adrint> Is anyone currently on?
[03:09] <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:
[03:11] <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 :))
[03:12] <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)
[03:13] <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.
[03:14] <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
[03:15] <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
[03:16] <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.
[03:19] <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.
[03:20] <pleia2> lol
[03:20] <pleia2> yeah, I don't know :) Canonical is funny
[03:20] <Adrint> Yeah :P
[03:21] <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.
[03:22] <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.
[03:23] <Adrint> I have some experience playing around a little in Gimp.
[03:23] <Adrint> Not much else.
[03:24] <Adrint> So what do you think about the way they're taking Unity?
[03:25] <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.
[03:26] <Adrint> I primarily use unity aside from on my netbook where I use Lubuntu
[03:29] <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.
[03:30] <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 :)
[03:31] <Adrint> Maybe next time I'l do the same old frost and flowers things that we see every release.
[03:32] <pleia2> time for me to head off for the evening, good luck
[03:33] <Adrint> Good night.
[03:33] <Adrint> And good luck to you too.
[03:34] <pleia2> thanks
[03:34] <Adrint> np