Call for F14 Supplemental Wallpapers

As many of you probably already know, I recently joined the Fedora Design Team and as such my Fedora-related posts are now distributed to Planet Fedora and the smaller Design Team Planet as well. For Fedora 13, I designed the website banner on the main page after Máirín Duffy kindly asked me to and for the next release I am concentrating on the supplemental wallpapers which we want to include. Let me tell you about that…

»Autumn Colors« by Joisey Showa (joiseyshowaa on Flickr)

Máirín has blogged about the wallpaper we are working on to include as a default, but we are also aiming to include a lot of additional wallpapers (much like upstream Gnome does) that people may use as an alternative. We are looking for photos or abstract graphics that lend themselves to being good wallpaper, ie. something not too distracting or busy — close-ups of grass and flowers, landscape vistas, abstract graphics like swirls and bubbles are all good examples but try to think out of the box as well. We are collecting submissions on this page until Thursday, August 19 (one day before my birthday, incidentally) after which the Design Team will vote on the submissions and decide what will be included. So if you have an idea for something you think would fit the bill, please head over to that page. We will need the following information for each submission:

1. URL of the image (ie. “where it’s at”)
2. Title of the work in question
3. Name of the author (their real name is preferable, but a nickname with a link to the profile on the page the image is from works as well)
4. Contact information for the author, email if possible
5. URL of the source page that the image was originally from
6. The license of the photo (has to be compatible with the Fedora requirements)

You can either go to the wiki page directly and add the photos yourself or you can use this handy script to upload them automatically (usage instructions). If you want, you can also email me submissions directly to fab@sixgun.org as long as you provide the above information and make it clear in the subject line that you are submitting wallpapers for Fedora. If you find a nice image and it isn’t released under an acceptable license, you might want to try to contacting the author to release it under a license that would make it possible for us to ship it. We can also ask the author ourselves if you want, just email me about it if that is the case.

»Oregano Orejón« by María Leandro (tatica on Flickr)

I think this is an awesome opportunity to get your own work or someone else’s that you enjoy into Fedora and at the same time improve things for everyone. Who doesn’t love gorgous wallpapers, after all? As I see it, this is one of the easiest ways ever to contribute to a F/OSS project and could still be very rewarding. I am looking forward to lots of great submissions so go ahead and knock the ball out of the park with your find!