Hi Design Team,
as a thank you for the people in desktop@ being so understanding recently I thought I'd offer you some wildlife pictures that might be suitable for part of your standard desktop backgrounds set.
The copies here are uncropped and only small sizes to give you a look, the originals are 3888 X 2592 pixels in raw format, you don't get those. If you seriously want any of them let me know and I'll make them what ever size you please in what ever format you prefer. (the sharpening and noise removal needs to be redone for different sizes and formats)
The critters in order are:
Red Collared Lorikeet Baby Red Backed Fairy Wren Blue Winged Kookaburra Whistling Kite Green Tree Frog Lemon Bellied Fly Catcher Galah Red Tailed Black Cockatoo
Interesting note about the last one - in local langauges of the Arnhem region it is called a Gaggadju and is held sacred to the locals who call themselves The Gaggadju People. This was explained carefully to to the Europeans that they first met but in typical English fashion, by the time they got back to civilization the word had become Kakadu, the name of the national park. By the time they got back to England the word had become Cockatoo.
I, Andrew Walton, retain ownership and full copy rights of these photographs.
I have the original raw files and I have the camera and lens that shot them, and I'm the only person in the world that can show you where they were shot, they're mine.
I, Andrew Walton, grant Fedora Team and anyone who uses Fedora operating systems the right to use these photographs for any non commercial purpose.
If that needs rewording somehow or I need to fill out some special form just let me know. In the mean time you understand what I mean.
Let me know.
Andrew.
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 06:41:22PM +0930, Andrew Walton wrote:
as a thank you for the people in desktop@ being so understanding recently I thought I'd offer you some wildlife pictures that might be suitable for part of your standard desktop backgrounds set.
Hi Andrew! Thanks for sharing. The wallpaper collection is done through the Fedora Design team, and they have a standard process for that every release. For Feodra 23, that just opened up. Take a look at: http://fedoramagazine.org/make-fedora-23-beautiful-wallpaper-submission-open/
I, Andrew Walton, retain ownership and full copy rights of these photographs. I, Andrew Walton, grant Fedora Team and anyone who uses Fedora operating systems the right to use these photographs for any non commercial purpose.
Retaining copyright is definitely okay. However, to be used in Fedora, they'll need to be under an approved content license. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Good_Licenses_3
Thanks for the replies, Kirk and Matt.
Unfortunately I got halfway through the Join process and can't complete the Contributor Agreement.
I don't have a phone so no phone number. I live in a remote place, I haven't even owned a pair of shoes for more than 5 years. A feral photographer, if you like.
I figure that pretty pictures that can't be seen are pretty useless. If you want any of them you can have them anonymously under your standard CC BY-SA license, I don't care about competitions.
I assume you'd prefer JPG's with exif information, let me know what size and I'll crop and adjust them to better suit your background guidelines. Now that I've read the guidelines I'll go through my collection and see whatever else fits and send you a sample. Only 30000 to choose from, mostly birds.
Cheers,
Andrew.
On 20/08/15 08:20, Matthew Miller wrote:
Retaining copyright is definitely okay. However, to be used in Fedora, they'll need to be under an approved content license. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Good_Licenses_3
Hi,
Sorry that I answer so late but I was travelling back from Flock what me took 3 days.
As Matt said, the normal process is done via Nuancier. For getting a FAS account and sign the cla/fpca a phone number is not mandatory.
In generally we prefer PNG over JPG as it is a free format. But JPG is fine also. If you still have problems with the upload, I can upload them for you but I have to quote your name with CC-BY-SA, only CC-0 would allow the use without quote and you should be quoted for your master pieces.
If I shall upload them, tell me. It will take same time as I still travel, I can try to do it over weekend from the conference booth in Cologne, otherwise it has to wait until I arrive next week in Phnom Penh
br gnokii
2015-08-20 2:32 GMT+02:00 Andrew Walton andrewfixcomputer@gmail.com:
Thanks for the replies, Kirk and Matt.
Unfortunately I got halfway through the Join process and can't complete the Contributor Agreement.
I don't have a phone so no phone number. I live in a remote place, I haven't even owned a pair of shoes for more than 5 years. A feral photographer, if you like.
I figure that pretty pictures that can't be seen are pretty useless. If you want any of them you can have them anonymously under your standard CC BY-SA license, I don't care about competitions.
I assume you'd prefer JPG's with exif information, let me know what size and I'll crop and adjust them to better suit your background guidelines. Now that I've read the guidelines I'll go through my collection and see whatever else fits and send you a sample. Only 30000 to choose from, mostly birds.
Cheers,
Andrew.
On 20/08/15 08:20, Matthew Miller wrote:
Retaining copyright is definitely okay. However, to be used in Fedora, they'll need to be under an approved content license. < https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Good_Licenses_3%3...
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On 20/08/15 18:27, S.Kemter wrote:
Hi,
Sorry that I answer so late but I was travelling back from Flock what me took 3 days.
I'm sorry that I caught you during a busy time, I really didn't want to be any trouble.
As Matt said, the normal process is done via Nuancier. For getting a FAS account and sign the cla/fpca a phone number is not mandatory.
Unfortunately someone forgot to tell your web designer this, no phone number means no agreement. It will only accept digits, not "none available". I could put any old number in there but I don't like to make a habit of falsifying legal documents.
In generally we prefer PNG over JPG as it is a free format.
I tried it again after all these years, sorry, it might be free but it's also still rubbish. Poor pixel shading and it actually bloats file sizes instead of compressing them.
But JPG is fine also. If you still have problems with the upload, I can upload them for you but I have to quote your name with CC-BY-SA, only CC-0 would allow the use without quote and you should be quoted for your master pieces.
Thank you Sirko, it's a strange world where it's so easy to copy work illegally and so difficult to give it away for free.
If I shall upload them, tell me. It will take same time as I still travel, I can try to do it over weekend from the conference booth in Cologne, otherwise it has to wait until I arrive next week in Phnom Penh
Yes please, I'll send them in another email with my statement about the license. That way you've got one simple package without bits of conversation in it.
They're cropped and resized to 2400 X 1600 in Exif Jpeg, I love the Gimp. I won't bother renaming the files, instead I'll write in the Comments section of the exif information for the birds common names and latin names. And as I said previously, I'll also go through my main collection and see if there's anything else that might be suitable.
Cheers,
Andrew.
Hi,
So I would have time now for the uploads, but now I have a little bit of an orientation problem in which mail is which one.
If I count right, I have two mails with 8 pictures each so 16 submissions. Well its fine with me to upload them all, but in generally I would prefer we pick some of them, and the rest goes next time.
We have already 150 submissions and only 16 go into the package, so give others a chance to. We really like to spread the chances evenly, to encourage the people also for the future. If there are to much submissions, the voting makes also no fun for our contributors.
For Fedora 24 I will limit the uploads anyway, a thing i wanted to avoid. So can we choose lets say 5 and use the left ones next time?
br gnokii
2015-08-21 2:17 GMT+02:00 Andrew Walton andrewfixcomputer@gmail.com:
On 20/08/15 18:27, S.Kemter wrote:
Hi,
Sorry that I answer so late but I was travelling back from Flock what me took 3 days.
I'm sorry that I caught you during a busy time, I really didn't want to be any trouble.
As Matt said, the normal process is done via Nuancier. For getting a FAS account and sign the cla/fpca a phone number is not mandatory.
Unfortunately someone forgot to tell your web designer this, no phone number means no agreement. It will only accept digits, not "none available". I could put any old number in there but I don't like to make a habit of falsifying legal documents.
In generally we prefer PNG over JPG as it is a free format.
I tried it again after all these years, sorry, it might be free but it's also still rubbish. Poor pixel shading and it actually bloats file sizes instead of compressing them.
But JPG is fine also. If you still have problems with the upload, I can
upload them for you but I have to quote your name with CC-BY-SA, only CC-0 would allow the use without quote and you should be quoted for your master pieces.
Thank you Sirko, it's a strange world where it's so easy to copy work illegally and so difficult to give it away for free.
If I shall upload them, tell me. It will take same time as I still travel, I can try to do it over weekend from the conference booth in Cologne, otherwise it has to wait until I arrive next week in Phnom Penh
Yes please, I'll send them in another email with my statement about the license. That way you've got one simple package without bits of conversation in it.
They're cropped and resized to 2400 X 1600 in Exif Jpeg, I love the Gimp. I won't bother renaming the files, instead I'll write in the Comments section of the exif information for the birds common names and latin names. And as I said previously, I'll also go through my main collection and see if there's anything else that might be suitable.
Cheers,
Andrew.
For Fedora 24 I will limit the uploads anyway, a thing i wanted to avoid. So can we choose lets say 5 and use the left ones next time?
Limiting submissions isn't bad at all. Most contest only accept a number of submissions, which not only helps reduce the amount of element to review, but also makes the contestant have a more critical view of what's (s)he is submitting. I would say that maybe 3 images per person for next time would be more than enough.
I agree with that idea of using only 5 or 6. If it's possible, include the frog picture. It's so lovely! My thought.
Hi Andrew,
These are fantastic - beautiful photos!
I'd suggest you submit them for the currently-open supplemental wallpaper contest [1] so they can get bundled with F23. The page I linked to describes how to contribute them to the contest, including the licenses involved.
Thanks for sharing them, I hope they get a really wide distribution!
Kirk
[1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/nuancier/contribute/
On 08/19/2015 02:11 AM, Andrew Walton wrote:
Hi Design Team,
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If that needs rewording somehow or I need to fill out some special form just let me know. In the mean time you understand what I mean.
Let me know.
Andrew.
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