How to manage the supplemental wallpaper process

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Relevant links: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F16_Artwork/Submissions/Supplemental_Wallpapers

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What are supplemental wallpapers?

Supplemental wallpapers are the non-default wallpapers provided with Fedora. Usually Fedora ships GNOME upstream supplemental wallpapers. We try to collect a set for each release of Fedora and offer it as an option package. Wallpaper shipped with Fedora that is not the default wallpaper is called 'supplemental' wallpaper.

How do I manage the supplemental wallpaper process?

The supplemental wallpaper wrangler oversees the supplemental wallpaper process, and is a duty that can rotate every release given the interest of the current maintainer.

The responsibilities of the supplemental wallpaper wrangler include:

  1. Setting a deadline for the wallpaper submissions which will be posted on the current Supplemental Wallpapers page.
  2. Announcing the supplemental wallpapers process. When advertising this note that supplemental wallpapers should be photography-based. Where to advertise?:
  3. Monitor the submissions on the wiki. Post follow-up announcements as needed to solicit more submissions
  4. After the deadline has passed, moderate a discussion on design-team mailing list to narrow it down to 15 wallpapers by tallying up the design team's votes. The top 15 most-voted-for wallpapers are the winners.
  5. Contact the artists who created the 15 winning wallpapers, get their okay, confirm the license on each image.
  6. Create a wiki page to post the license-confirmed and author-okayed winners:
  7. Work with a packager to have the wallpapers packaged.
  8. Announce selected wallpapers on planet.fedoraproject.org

Templates

Stuff to Keep In Mind As Wallpaper Wrangler

Voting Process

You can do the voting in one of two ways:

Either way is fine, it's up to you as wrangler how you'd prefer to run the vote.

Where wallpapers are submitted

Should the images be submitted to flickr or the wiki page?

The wiki page is the preferred place of submission, and we should ask that folks submit to it unless the photographer has some hardship in uploading to the wiki. We had tried to use the flickr group before but it turned out to be too confusing so the Wiki should probably be the canonical place for entries.

Information we collect from wallpaper submissions

Wallpaper submissions without this information cannot be accepted:

  1. URL of Image File The URL of the image (for example, http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2329/3529010478_6608e2f5e0_o.jpg)
  2. Title The name/title of the image (for example, "The One and Only East")
  3. Author The author's real-life name (if possible, if not their handle/nick or a link to their profile on the site the photo is found may be sufficient) Note we need this information for the author, not the submitter.
  4. Author Email or Contact Information The author's email address
  5. URL of Image site The URL the photo was found on (e.g., the Flickr page URL, or the blog post URL, etc.)
  6. License The license of the photo (we can only accept the following licenses: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Good_Licenses_3)

Supplemental Wallpaper Guidelines

All submissions or contributions:

Subject matter:

Technical requirements:

Composition:

Specific guidelines.

The following adjectives should be used to select an appropriate design:

Supplemental Wallpaper Wrangler History

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