Art Studio Spin?

[Máirí­n Duffy]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Is there interest in building a spin which is myopically focused on
> the art designer?
> Is the desktop oriented livecd good enough.. or is there room for a
> yet more focused spin
> for the designer usage case? And if so, can it be done inside the
> existing Fedora repository space without reaching for external bits?

So I did a bit of work around this, this weekend.

And, yeah, I think there are a lot of value-add bits like fonts and 
brushes and the like that would make it really awesome. Essential? 
Necessary? No, but... I'd be interested in making a spin that is 
basically a dream Fedora for me :)

* Here's some of the general planning stuff I did in general about the 
spin: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/45531.html

More specifically, here's the wiki page where I started writing down 
some plans:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ArtTeamProjects/FedoraArtStudio

What's done thus far:

* Some (quite messy) notes towards a package manifeset: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ArtTeamProjects/FedoraArtStudio/PackageManifest

* I looked for potential fonts we could include. There are LOTS. Some 
are pretty neat. Most are not already in Fedora so we'd have to get them 
packaged up: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/45152.html

* Michael and I looked through a bunch of clip art from openclipart.org 
and picked out some we thought might be good to include (feel free to 
pull stuff out you don't think is good enough or push stuff in you think 
is great for inclusion): 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ArtTeamProjects/FedoraArtStudio/Clipart

* I went through a ton of Gimp and Photoshop (easily converted to gbr) 
brushes looking for Creative Commons Attribution and Attribution Share 
Alike brushes. The full list of what I found thus far is here: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ArtTeamProjects/FedoraArtStudio/Brushes

(One worry - if a brush is sharealike, and i create an awesome piece of 
art with it, does that awesome piece of art have to be sharealike? If 
so, if we include sharealike brushes - folks using Fedora Art Studio 
have to know which are which so they know how to license their 
derivative works??? Or does a brush not count unless you make derivative 
brushes off of it?)

* Got a small start at finding some CC-licensed textures: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ArtTeamProjects/FedoraArtStudio/PatternsTextures

Feel free to jump in on any of this if it piques your interest!

~m