New logo guidelines and web design elements posted

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon May 29 09:52:42 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 13:52 -0500, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:

> > There are plenty of great potential art contributors out there who may 
> > not necessarily be technical enough to quickly / easily figure out how 
> > to install the GIMP on their art development platform of choice.
> >
> > I guess I'm just trying to say that things could be worse - the 
> > artwork could be in a format that a FOSS program like the GIMP or 
> > inkscape couldn't even open to view. And it may not be all that easy 
> > for contributing artists to convert their stuff to open formats before 
> > submitting.
> I have strong doubts of these contributor artists promoting *FOSS* tools 
> and OSes if they *don't* use such tools... seems just completely not 
> right for some reason..

Artists are creating art. They might not have any intention or desire to
promote FOSS tools and the tools or the artists knowledge on those tools
might be limited.


Rahul




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