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=== Looking Forward to Fedora 12 ===
=== Theming Constantine ===


After [[User:thomaskole|Thomas Kole]] asked<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000205.html</ref> about what is the Fedora 12 theme "I really want to create a wallpaper for f12, but what is the theme?" and  [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]] pointed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000210.html</ref> it will be announced in approximatively one week "I believe the result is expected to be announced next week at FUDCon", [[User:mso|Martin Sourada]] started the debate<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000206.html</ref> about tht process for to be used"what's the theming process for F12?" and provided a first sketch "1. sketching the base concepts[...] 2. get initial approach wallpapers into Alpha[...] 3. have most of the artwork covered by Beta[...] 4. polish for RCs and Final".
From FUDCon, after the announcement of the release name for Fedora 12 [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]] launchedref<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000277.html</ref> the talks about the graphic theme of the next release "I am sure you are all already aware, the announcement is official since yesterday when Paul delivered in in front of the FUDCon audience, the release name for Fedora 12 was voted Constantine". He also proposed a possible approach: Byzantine mosaics "When I think about it, I had in my mind Byzantine culture (Roman emperor Constantine the Great) and I think a graphic in the style of a Byzantine mosaic can be an effective approach. The major trick is to leave out any religious implications and stay only with cultural references."


Nicu further outlined<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000211.html</ref> the tight schedule "According to the schedule, we have Alpha freeze on 2009-08-04 and Alpha release on 2009-08-18", Martin mentioned<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000215.html</ref> some past problems to avoid "First of all we need to make clear it's not competition, but we still need more than one designs" and [[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]] advanced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000218.html</ref> a possible different approach "I wonder if we could take an approach instead of creating the base image
[[JoostElfering|Joost Elfering]] invited<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000278.html</ref> everyone to think at the big picture "I think we need to take a step back before coming up with results and examples. i suggest we first take a look at the associations with Constantine. these
from scratch this time, to go out and search the best of openly-licensed content and try to provide a thematic selection?", which was disliked<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000228.html</ref> by Nicu "is like us dropping the
associations will be the bases for out new style. so no examples, just
ball and acknowledging we are not able to create ourselves something good enough", Martin<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000244.html</ref> and [[User:sstorari|Samuele Storari]]<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000229.html</ref> "I hope we will not stop create, and, I think we may work again in the contest mode", but also Martin noticed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000248.html</ref> how the old process has put a lot unreasonable stress on Máirín's shoulders "One of the things I remember from the past releases are your all-nighters that saved us from disasters, especially considering you are doing it in your spare time..."
conceptual works" and showed concerns about the religious implications "this
theme is really heavily based on religion on it's own. We will probably have
some angry faces just because of the name. keeping out religion on this one
will be really hard!", concerns shared<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000281.html</ref> also by [[User:constanton|Konstantinos Antonakoglou]] "You can't expect any work of art without a religious reference" who proposed a simple take on that "So, to keep it simple I sense that we should say: 'Hey! Byzantine art used the mosaic art! Let's use it too.'"


After a few more rounds of debate, Máirín Duffy proposed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000250.html</ref> a plan: "I think I really like the requirement that the default be: original, vector, abstract, theme-related. And that we pick, let's say as originally proposed, 4 works from the creative commons / openly-licensed community that are related to the theme as well and have the following breakdown: 2 general appeal / any age group, 1 appeal to children, 1 appeal to women" which was positively received, with a possible addition by Nicu Buculei<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000252.html</ref> "- a larger "extras" package (but not very large) yummable from the repository and *maybe* also on the install DVD; a huge gallery with *everything* available online, where people can browse with Firefox and use it's "set image as desktop background" option."
[[User:wonderer|Henrik Heigl]] chimed-in<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000282.html</ref> with his own concerns about aggressiveness "The Lion has a bit of an aggressive meaning, Constantine is en emperor (also a bit aggressive) do we want the same way or make something smoother?" and added another couple of ideas to the brainstorming "I also had the Logo of my old University" and "Also I had the the "Lion" we had in Fedora11 in my head and now maybe another animal", with the animal idea ruled-out<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000285.html</ref> quickly by Nicu "We can't go with another animal (no, not even a panda :D), that would be to close to the previous release."
 
Once the process is defined, it will be widely publicised so the larger community can take part into it "process announced in Fedora Weekly news & Fedora Forum; process announced on Planet fpo; each phase of the process announced in FWN & on Planet FPO & Fedora Forum; maybe some kind of podcast, www.fpo banner, some kinds of publicity that way to get people involved."


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Artwork

In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork

Theming Constantine

From FUDCon, after the announcement of the release name for Fedora 12 Nicu Buculei launchedref[1] the talks about the graphic theme of the next release "I am sure you are all already aware, the announcement is official since yesterday when Paul delivered in in front of the FUDCon audience, the release name for Fedora 12 was voted Constantine". He also proposed a possible approach: Byzantine mosaics "When I think about it, I had in my mind Byzantine culture (Roman emperor Constantine the Great) and I think a graphic in the style of a Byzantine mosaic can be an effective approach. The major trick is to leave out any religious implications and stay only with cultural references."

Joost Elfering invited[2] everyone to think at the big picture "I think we need to take a step back before coming up with results and examples. i suggest we first take a look at the associations with Constantine. these associations will be the bases for out new style. so no examples, just conceptual works" and showed concerns about the religious implications "this theme is really heavily based on religion on it's own. We will probably have some angry faces just because of the name. keeping out religion on this one will be really hard!", concerns shared[3] also by Konstantinos Antonakoglou "You can't expect any work of art without a religious reference" who proposed a simple take on that "So, to keep it simple I sense that we should say: 'Hey! Byzantine art used the mosaic art! Let's use it too.'"

Henrik Heigl chimed-in[4] with his own concerns about aggressiveness "The Lion has a bit of an aggressive meaning, Constantine is en emperor (also a bit aggressive) do we want the same way or make something smoother?" and added another couple of ideas to the brainstorming "I also had the Logo of my old University" and "Also I had the the "Lion" we had in Fedora11 in my head and now maybe another animal", with the animal idea ruled-out[5] quickly by Nicu "We can't go with another animal (no, not even a panda :D), that would be to close to the previous release."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000277.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000278.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000281.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000282.html
  5. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000285.html
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