Ubuntu-power-users Digest, Vol 1, Issue 20

Sun May 22 03:09:52 UTC 2011

Are you still taking logo submissions?  How can I submit one?

Joe
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> 1. Re: Branding for the team (Achraf Fouwad)
> 2. PowerUsers Logo pick (John Santucci)
> 3. Re: PowerUsers Logo pick (Zachary Mitchell)
> 4. Re: PowerUsers Logo pick (Klaus Borges)
> 5. connecting power users to their tools (Robert Potter)
> 6. Re: PowerUsers Logo pick (Brena Boba)
> 7. Re: Branding for the team (John Chiazzese)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 04:30:41 +0200
> From: Achraf Fouwad <ash at evilbsd.org>
> To: Ubuntu PowerUsers <ubuntu-power-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Branding for the team
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> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Jono Bacon <jono at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 10:06 -0600, Mike Basinger wrote:
>> > Do we have budding artists in the group that would like to create some
>> > branding for the team to put up on the LP team and wiki pages. I think
>> > anything that is inline with the the Ubuntu brand guidelines [1] would
>> > be fantastic.
>>
>> It seems there has been a bunch of awesome ideas posted at
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerUsers/LogoSubmission and now the time has
>> come to pick one.
>>
>> My vote would be with #4, but Mike, happy with whatever you suggest.
>>
>> Jono
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> i like the #4 one :)
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> Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 19:31:57 -0700
> From: John Santucci <jpssastro at gmail.com>
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> Subject: PowerUsers Logo pick
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> LIKE # 3 and # 1
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> #3 is strong and forceful.
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> Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 21:35:10 -0500
> From: Zachary Mitchell <zacharymitchell6 at gmail.com>
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> I like #3 for the logo, and #1 as a tab icon for browsers.
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 23:52:59 -0300
> From: Klaus Borges <ilvmudkips at gmail.com>
> Cc: ubuntu-power-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: PowerUsers Logo pick
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> I'm strongly set on #8. I swear I'm not a friend of the guy! It's the
second
> time I'm mentioning my pick already. Although number #1 would be my second
> choice, looks pretty solid.
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> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Zachary Mitchell <
> zacharymitchell6 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I like #3 for the logo, and #1 as a tab icon for browsers.
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> Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 20:53:35 -0600
> From: Robert Potter <rpotter at zoncko.com>
> To: Ubuntu Power User Group <ubuntu-power-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: connecting power users to their tools
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> both of your points make sense. I do like that thought of a single apt-get
> command that would install a key tool set. Would be much easier than
> entering install command after install command.
>
> -Rob
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> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Paul Hoell <hoellp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think install-time download of the power tools could be done further
down
>> the road.
>> There are some steps that need to be done before that, and we shouldn't
>> rush into this. For now it's necessary to get the tools to a place we can
>> work with function-wise. As long as they're not thoroughly tested and
prove
>> to be stable, i think installing them at install time might be a tad
>> overpowering for most users.
>> We talk about power-users here, so installing via meta-package oder just
a
>> simple apt-get line for now should really be enough. It would also make
it
>> much less likely that an inexperienced user stumbles onto them, when
they're
>> still in a state where there is no easy way to revert changes and little
to
>> no safeguards to what you can do to your system.
>>
>> To collect my thoughts, i think an integration with the installer
shouldn't
>> be done before next LTS+1, so there is time to refine the tools and get a
>> suggested workflow in order.
>>
>> greets
>> Paul
>> <-
>>
>>
>>
>> 2011/5/21 Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com>
>>
>>> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Robert Potter <rpotter at zoncko.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > It will be nice if power users have a trusted location to look up and
>>> find
>>> > tools that assist them. But they still will have to invest the time to
>>> find
>>> > and install those tools.
>>> > Ubuntu currently offers the option to install multi-media package
during
>>> > install and with an internet connection downloads updates in the back
>>> > ground. The server edition allows the user to select packages to be
>>> > installed during installation. So, as we identify key tools such as
>>> Ubuntu
>>> > Tweak, perhaps Canonical could offer a back ground download/install
>>> option
>>> > for a few of these key tools. For those of us that just want our
system
>>> to
>>> > work but still would like the power & tools to tweak, I think it would
>>> be
>>> > nice to simply request the tools during install.
>>> > Not sure how practical or desired it is by others, but just a thought
I
>>> had.
>>>
>>> Nice thought, but then there might be other groups of users who would
>>> like to have a "gamer" option and so on. I do not think that this is a
>>> feasible approach without opening a can of worms.
>>>
>>> I would rather suggest to create a meta package, which then installs
>>> these tools - power users should not have a problem with typing
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get install power-user-tools
>>>
>>> which then would download and install a suite of selected packages.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Rainer
>>>
>>> > -Rob
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 04:57:03 +0200
> From: Brena Boba <brenaiboba at gmail.com>
> To: Klaus Borges <ilvmudkips at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: PowerUsers Logo pick
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> I would say 1.
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> Simple and recognizable :)
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 23:00:19 -0400
> From: John Chiazzese <oneidle at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: Branding for the team
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> On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 19:23 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 10:06 -0600, Mike Basinger wrote:
>> > Do we have budding artists in the group that would like to create some
>> > branding for the team to put up on the LP team and wiki pages. I think
>> > anything that is inline with the the Ubuntu brand guidelines [1] would
>> > be fantastic.
>>
>> It seems there has been a bunch of awesome ideas posted at
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerUsers/LogoSubmission and now the time has
>> come to pick one.
>>
>> My vote would be with #4, but Mike, happy with whatever you suggest.
>>
>> Jono
>>
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>> Ubuntu Community Manager
>> jono(at)ubuntu(dot)com
>> www.ubuntu.com : www.jonobacon.org
>> www.twitter.com/jonobacon : www.identi.ca/jonobacon
>>
>>
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> #4 is the best IMHO.
>
> nice work
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> IdleOne
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