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| [17:20] <ubendu> hello! :) | |
| [17:20] <thorwil> hi ubendu | |
| [17:31] <thorwil> kwwii: http://www.heise.de/bilderstrecke/510/nt51ccfe | |
| [17:32] <kwwii> thorwil: yeah, I was just reading http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-first-look-at-windows-7.html | |
| [17:32] <thorwil> heh | |
| [17:32] <kwwii> to be honest, I am not that impressed by the look of things | |
| [17:33] <kwwii> seems like they add a few new intersting ideas and people are amazed | |
| [17:33] <thorwil> windows never impressed me by look | |
| [17:33] <thorwil> adding stuff to "libraries" is surely much better than tagging/grouping ;) | |
| [17:35] <kwwii> yeah, it seems like they learned from photo software | |
| [17:41] * thorwil -> dinner | |
| [17:53] <ubendu> so what OS do you guys all use to do art work? | |
| [18:16] <kwwii> ubendu: lol, linux, of course | |
| [18:17] <ubendu> kwwii: what distro? | |
| [18:20] <kwwii> ubendu: guess, it shouldn't be hard | |
| [18:21] <ubendu> the obvious would be ubuntu, but i don't see why you would have to be using ubuntu to create artwork for it. | |
| [18:22] <ubendu> i would be interested in getting involved in the art team though :> | |
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| [18:25] <kwwii> ubendu: I work for canonical, so it is kinda my job to use ubuntu ;_) | |
| [18:26] <ubendu> kwwii: :) | |
| [18:47] <thorwil> ubendu: you don't have to be using ubuntu. some people actually contributed work done in photoshop on windows (or perhaps via wine) | |
| [18:47] <ubendu> thorwil: okay that's great. i'm an OS X user (Photoshop CS4). | |
| [18:47] <thorwil> ubendu: using free/open-source tools is of course preferred. especially when it comes to providing the "source" | |
| [18:48] <ubendu> thorwil: i'm guessing that the people who use ubuntu to contribute are using gimp though. | |
| [18:48] <thorwil> yes | |
| [18:48] <thorwil> gimp and inkscape | |
| [18:48] <thorwil> ubendu: if you do vector work, SVG is pretty much a must | |
| [18:49] <ubendu> thorwil: okay. | |
| [18:50] <thorwil> ubendu: do you have something specific in mind, that you would like to work on? | |
| [18:50] <ubendu> no not as such. | |
| [18:50] <thorwil> ubendu: what's your background, do you have examples of your work online? | |
| [18:51] <ubendu> thorwil: no, i've done a bit of work for some on-line networking web sites. | |
| [18:51] <ubendu> who runs the team here? | |
| [18:52] <thorwil> ubendu: it's ... kinda headless | |
| [18:52] <ubendu> thorwil: ok | |
| [18:53] <thorwil> ubendu: kwwii is employed by canonical as art director. there have been so called theme teams, small groupd os people working on themes | |
| [18:54] <thorwil> ubendu: with the release coming on the 30th, not much is going on right now, i think | |
| [18:54] <ubendu> thorwil: okay | |
| [18:54] <kwwii> thorwil: my title is "platform art lead" | |
| [18:54] <ubendu> thorwil: i've subscribed to the mailing list. | |
| [18:54] <kwwii> I wrote my job description a couple of days ago :p | |
| [18:54] <thorwil> kwwii: gosh, i though that was still in future | |
| [18:56] <thorwil> ubendu: then there's the Breathe icon effort, led by _MMA_: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/BreatheIconSet/ | |
| [18:56] <ubendu> thorwil: ok. | |
| [18:56] <ubendu> thorwil: i think i would be best suited doing wallpapers etc. | |
| [18:57] <thorwil> ubendu: and an ambitious project trying to build a solid base for a theme: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/KyudoGuidelines. led by me | |
| [18:58] <ubendu> thorwil: that looks good. | |
| [18:58] <ubendu> thorwil: i've just been reading http://thorwil.wordpress.com/, do you do icons for free? | |
| [18:59] <thorwil> ubendu: yes | |
| [18:59] <ubendu> thorwil: okay :) | |
| [19:04] * kwwii heads off to band practice | |
| [19:04] <thorwil> kwwii: have a good time! | |
| [19:07] <kwwii> thorwil: thanks, I'll try...bit of a cold atm, not sure how that'll affect my voice | |
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