Tuesday 1 November 2011

Mageia 2 Artwork Request

Those of you who were around the artwork team as it led up to the Mageia 1 release may remember that it was somewhat stressful, however, we pulled through, and despite being a small group, out out what I feel is a good looking package.
Since then, the team has grown, and with large thanks to TeaAge, we have got lots of structure in place and are now fully up and running. So I feel that we are on course to take what we have learned from last time around and use it, along with the new expertise that we have to make Mageia 2 very pretty indeed.

So it is too this end that I would like to request that anybody and everybody who feels that they have something, no matter how small to contribute, to get involved.
I have opened a group on flickr to facilitate this, so if you have anything to post, an idea or a full fledged icons set I will happily provide feedback so that we can build it into the next release.
At the moment this is as much about gathering ideas as it is about getting the final pieces done, so don't feel bad if your work isn't finished yet, tell us where you see it going.

The thread in the forum is here
The flickr group is here
Some useful info can be found on the Mageia wiki here
Licensing info is here

I look forward to seeing your posting.

PS: If you don't want to sign up to flickr, you can either mail me the artwork or post links here or in the forum and I will upload them for you.

Schultz

So its been a long time.....

Well since I last put anything here, what i knew as Mandriva has become Mageia and Mandriva has become, well I'm not really sure as I haven't used it in about a year.


I am mainly focusing on the artwork side of things, although i do the odd bit of KDE stuff too.


Just in case any of you people wonder what happened to it, the wind buggy was almost totaled by yours truly, I ripped the whole of the front steering assembly apart and shattered the UJ that took the load from the front wheel. This caused a lovely crash, but on the plus side, it meant the the whole of the steering system was fixed up, so that is much simpler, smoother and self centers really well. Sadly i haven't had the chance to really drive it yet, but once i do, i am sure that it will be fast.