Alexis PM via tde-devels wrote: > >> Alexis PM via tde-devels wrote: >>>> My suggestions: >>>> >>>> 1) December as a working period for submitting new proposals, resolve >>>> this in January. December is a month with numerous holidays in many >>>> countries, artists who may be too busy the rest of the year may have >>>> more free time this month. >>> >>> good point, I also agree with this >>> >> >> Yes I agree. December is a good time to get calm and dreaming. This could >> be a good time for other ideas and creativity. It would be great if new >> graphics could be prepared during January to March so that we can >> integrate it into upcoming R14.1.0. >> >>>> 2) Announce on the front page of the TDE website that there is an open >>>> call for designs for new project mascot. Enable web form or email to >>>> which to send proposals. >>>> >> >> Yes, a short website announcement could be good. >> Or at least email to announcements ML. >> >> I don't know if it makes sense to create a separate mail address or a >> special web page. The possibilities were considered either sending a >> mailing to devels ML or creating a page on tde TDE Wiki. > > In my humble opinion, a web form on the TDE website is the best option. It > is an ideal way to organize the submission of proposals, it allows to > establish mandatory fields such as real name and email (without being > publicly visible) and to accept some minimum legal conditions (basically: > that the person declares that it is his original work and has not been > transferred to anyone, that this work has not been or is not used as a > recognizable image by another initiative, project or organization, and > that the person freely and completely gives it to TDE for free and without > any condition beyond the cite of the original creator -the name or > pseudonym of the author's choice- on the TDE website). (The real name is > for legal reasons associated with the minimum legal conditions). > > An additional requirement is the format: Source or editable format > (Blender .blend, Inkscape .svg, GIMP .xcf,...) must be provided, not only > the export to image, because the mascot must be integrated with the logo > and other artwork of the project, now and in the future. > perfectly said >>>> 3) Announce the call for designs for new project mascot on websites >>>> and user mailing lists of artistic free software projects, for example >>>> websites and user mailing lists of Blender, Krita, GIMP,... > > I add (I forgot) Inkscape to the enumeration. > >> I have doubt about whether it could be beneficial to send challenges to >> other communities than that are interested in the development of TDE. > > Double benefits: > > * It opens the doors of participation to a much larger community. There > are many people who have fun drawing with Blender/Inkscape/Krita/GIMP just > for leisure and even if they are not TDE users they will be very happy > that their leisure creation is useful for a free software project. > > * The advertisement itself serves as publicity for the project: it makes > the project known to free software users who are not aware of its > existence (or who assume that this KDE-3 fork must have died because years > later it is not in the Debian repo). There will be people that even if > they do not participate with pet drawings, they will be curious about this > unknown desktop environment and it is possible that a percentage of people > will even be encouraged to use it and/or make some mention or article in > their circles. > > Although there are people who are very committed to TDE and who do it very > well, the small number of people actively involved in its development is a > danger to the medium-term survival of TDE. Increasing the number of people > is good for TDE. I don't want you to stop being who you are, but more > human power in TDE is good. For example, I have reported again in the > "new" bug tracker (gitea) the historical quanta bug VPL with the accents > in VPL, quanta is the best free HTML editor that exists and it is a pain > when I teach HTML learning courses to warn the students to avoid the > accents error in VPL, I have clear that fixing this bug pending for many > years is due to the lack of people and time to do it but Slavek and > company can only thank you for the voluntary work you do to keep this > alive. > also very good argument > 4) >>> The user and dev community can vote for the mascot somehow >>> It would be fully democratic and legit for me even if it is Tristan the >>> Bear > > I agree. > >>> My requirement is that it somehow attaches to the old KDE and to Trinity >>> ... so it could be a three headed dragon or similar >>> >>> Tristan and the bear are far away from the connotations I have with the >>> words Trinity and the KDE3 now TDE. >> >> The requirement that the new mascot should be connected with the original >> KDE mascot does not seem good to me. On the contrary, it seems better if >> the new mascot will be obviously different, not another dragon variant. >> Although I like the dragons, I also like bears. I like proposal from >> Phillipe. And Tristian / Tee seems to me a very beautiful name. > > I suggest not to put additional conditions to the mascot design. > Personally if someone submits a nice dragon, it probably will win my > heart. But I think every artist should be free to design the mascot they > want and the TDE community should be free to choose a mascot other than a > dragon. Maybe the new mascot will be a bear, an arctic fox, a parrot or a > frog (there are blue parrots and frogs if you care about color) and we > will be very happy. > > If it's the name, there are already legendary dragons like the > (Babylonian) Tiamat and the (Chinese) Tianlong, which we can > affectionately call Ti ;) > Both is important - the name and the thing and also the tradition conneting to the dragon. -- FCD6 3719 0FFB F1BF 38EA 4727 5348 5F1F DCFE BCB0 ____________________________________________________ tde-devels mailing list -- devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devels-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
