Fedora Art Spin Update

Michael Beckwith tw2113 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 06:45:02 UTC 2007


I could potentially help out with the podcast/etc relevent to artists part.
I'm a big podcast fan, and know about the notion a bit.

On 10/6/07, Máirín Duffy <duffy at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> Just as a quick update on the Fedora Art Spin -
>
> I created a first cut at a kickstart file to create this spin from in
> revisor:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ArtTeamProjects/FedoraArtStudio?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=artstudio-ks-oct_6_2007.cfg
>
> Revisor is still chugging away at it now so if it works I'll probably
> get around to testing it later this weekend.
>
> Nothing too exciting... there's no custom artwork for it, and none of
> the extra content (brushes, clipart, etc) we'd discussed earlier. I
> wanted to follow Nicu's suggestion of just having SOMETHING to start
> with so I figured getting the apps together would be a good start. I
> found some interesting ones:
>
> - cheese - cool webcam app
> - hugin - panoramic image creator
> - postr - flickr image upload tool
> - gnome-specimen - font specimen tool
> - zim - looks cool for taking notes
> - gscan2pdf - maybe will make creating multipage pdfs from the scanner
> easier
>
>
> Some of the tasks I see ahead:
>
> - test out first cut using this kickstart file. how big is it in MB? if
> it's too big to create a live cd, we'll have to have two kickstarts for
> it, one with everything and a whittled-down version for the livecd.
> - packaging up the content we want that's not in fedora - fonts,
> clipart, plugins, etc
> - custom artwork... at least just adding a 'art studio' moniker under
> the fedora logo in places maybe.
> - custom configuration for the gnome menus... ooh this would be nice
> - custom configuration some apps might be a nice touch:
>    - feeds relevant to artists pre-configured in lifrea
>    - bookmarks relevant to artists pre-configured in firefox
>    - podcasts / etc relevant to artists pre-configured in rhythmbox
> (maybe not so many in ogg though :( )
>
> Anything I'm forgetting?
>
> ~m
>
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