[Hamara-devel] Have a hamaralinux-desktop theme which is publicly available to any desktop

[shirish]

addition in-line :-

On 05/11/2015 10:16 PM, shirish wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I have been thinking of having a public hamaralinux-desktop theme which
> could be posted on various desktop themeing websites as well as in
> GNU/Linux distributions. The features below would make such a public
> theme :-
>
>
> a.Highly functional
> b.Licenced as a GPL/GPLv2 or/and GPLv3
> c.Also housed under git.hamaralinux.org
> d.Separate from our official hamaralinux.org branding.
>
> When should we do this is upto us but would like that we do this after
> we have the new, improved site. I would be filing a bug right after this
> mail is sent using the mail I sent last week for people to get into
> history of that, the bottom being we get a good functional responsive site.

Just filed #148 for the above. See 
http://bugs.hamaralinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148

> What are the expenses and any expected blow-back to us ?
>
> As far as blow-back is concerned don't see any other than "some" people
> talking that we are taking a cheap shot at advertising ourselves but
> don't see any bad in that. The other is/could be nobody notices us which
> we could always use as a reminder and lesson to make it better and see
> what the competition is.
>
> We have to keep in mind that Opensuse Linux pulled a much more racy
> strategy when it was young. For over 2-3 years that had various ladies
> in lingerie as the desktop wallpaper as well as in calendar which got
> them a bit of notoriety in the early years (this was in late 90's or
> early 2000s). As compared to that, we are behaving quite the gentleman
> here.
>
> As far as expenses go, shouldn't be much vis-a-vis what we are spending
> now and then, as it would be the same theme minus our branding. There
> may be initial expenses as in time investment but if and when we do
> that, The goal should be to be in many sites as well as desktop
> distributions as possible. An example of such a site would be
> gnome-look.org. Such sites and GNU/Linux distributions galore. Even if
> we target the top 5 GNU/Linux distributions and use alexa to find top 5
> third-party GNU/Linux desktop theme distribution sites, our job would be
> half-done.
>
> The rest would be putting some content about the site, curating our
> content on those sites and improving the looks from tips and ideas of
> people. This could also be mirrored on github and let people make pull
> requests and we could gauge on the skills of the artists-developer/s .
>
> Precedence - Is there a precedent for such kind of thing.
>
> Sure, there is. In-fact Debian does it. See
> https://www.debian.org/logos/ to learn about the difference between the
> 'Open use logo' and the 'restricted logo'.
>
> Look forward for feedback on the above.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org