Re: [Design-team] F14 Laughlin -- We're open for design concepts submissions

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This could be a good opportunity to make an overall visual refreshment
of Fedora :)

// Kris

2010/5/12 Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:04:58PM +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> so the codename for F14 has been decided -- Laughlin, so it's the right
>> time to let the F14 Artwork's ball rolling. I hereby announce that
>> suggestions, design concepts and WIP wallpapers implementing this name
>> are welcomed both here and on the following wiki page:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Theme_Concepts
>>
>> Discussion is preferred here, but each submission (supposing there's
>> also a preview/WIP included) needs to be both uploaded to wiki and
>> announced on this mailing list. Please use only openly licensed works
>> when uploading to wiki, sources are preferred in SVG for vector based
>> images and XCF for raster based ones.
>>
>> As for the deadline, AFAIK we have not yet the dates set, so it will be
>> announced later, but it will probably be some time before Alpha
>> (probably something between 1 and 3 weeks before Alpha freeze to give us
>> enough time to decide on a final concept, to put it in enough shape for
>> alpha and to package it).
>
> The suggestion for the name included this thematic material:
>
>    Robert Goddard was a professor of physics, and so is Robert
>    Laughlin.  He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for his
>    explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect. Moreover he
>    argues for emergence which is a concept that says "The whole is
>    more than the sum of its parts". Fedora is more than the sum of
>    its software.  . . .
>
>    [Theme suggestion:] Something that can illustrate the emergence
>    concept, like multiple objects combined to create a new one (more
>    complex).
>
> Perhaps this could spark some interesting ideas!
>
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