Blog posts tagged
"contest"

5 posts

Canonical
26 January 2011

The Natty Wallpaper contest – an important update!

Article Ubuntu

Two weeks into our wallpaper contest we’re seeing lots of really interesting entries for the photographic part. As those of you who read the previous post about the contest will know we’re also reserving at least three places this release for non photographic wallpapers. The plan _was_ to use another site to manage...

Canonical
26 January 2011

Canonical
13 January 2011

Bright, light and beautiful!

Design Ubuntu

That’s what we want the Ubuntu desktops in Natty to feel like. We’re changing things a little bit for the coming release too. We’ll still feature some fantastic photography sourced from our Flickr group but this time we’re reserving at least 3 places for non photographic wallpapers, so things that are rendered or drawn. The

Canonical
13 January 2011

Canonical
16 August 2010

Get your photos on millions of computers!

Design Ubuntu

It’s that time again! We’ve been accepting submissions on the Ubuntu Artwork Flickr group for a while now but with the deadline fast approaching for Beta we need to get together a shortlist and finalise the photo wallpapers that will be in the next Ubuntu release in October.

Canonical
16 August 2010

Canonical
15 February 2010

Have you inspired millions of people lately?

Article Ubuntu

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx” is just around the corner and Ubuntu users around the world are eager to be inspired by your awesome artwork and photos. You know the drill–submit your photos to the Ubuntu Artwork Flickr pool and we’ll ship as many beautiful images as we can fit on the CD!

Canonical
15 February 2010

Canonical
24 July 2009

Karmic desktop contest script

Design Ubuntu

I wrote a quick-and-dirty Haskell script to download photos from the Karmic Desktop Contest, setting a new photo as your desktop background every ten minutes. Make sure you cabal install flickr first.

Canonical
24 July 2009