[Hamara-users] contribution idea - wallpapers and screensavers for hamara.

[shirish]

Hi all,

Warning, would be a bit longish. Yesterday met Mangesh and his friend 
and they wanted to know of ways (apart from coding) as to how they could 
contribute to Hamara. As Mangesh had thought about Wallpapers, shared 
they could do so much more in that.

Wallpapers - This is one where you are just bound by your imagination. 
Every and any photograph could be hamara -

For instance -

a. Take good snaps of all the nature as well as religious places in and 
near Pune and something on lines of hamara went X or Y place.

b. During the recently concluded Ganesh Chaturthi, Durga Pooja, Dusshera 
and upcoming Diwali, Christmas and New Year Celebrations we could have 
Wallpapers either having photographs or whatever people think of. Even 
wishing Happy Diwali or New Year would be a start.

c. AFAIK we don't have a mascot, we could design one and have just 
simple calendars around it. For e.g. I used to download Mozilla 
Firefox's calendars as they used to come every month circa 2009.

See http://www.foxkeh.com/downloads/wallpapers/ for what they used to 
do. Unfortunately, they stopped in 2k9 end but had a good run for couple 
of years.

http://www.foxkeh.com/blog/5066/

http://foxkeh.jp/downloads/wallpapers/

amd then used

http://wallpapers.foxkeh.com/en/index.html but there is nothing in India 
of something similar. We could have a wallpaper every month show-casing 
all the festivals, State and National Holidays along with whatever 
interesting days we choose or come to know and share.

That would be a real service as the only one which I know which many 
people swear by is kalnirnay which is an analog calendar and that too 
just limited to the religious calendar.

See http://kalnirnay2016.in/ and

http://kalnirnay2016.in/2016-marathi-kalnirnay-calendar-download/36/

This could easily be done in the Lightning extension and we could have 
all sorts of calendars.

See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/projects/calendar/holidays/ . You 
could just download the 2014 one which is there 
https://mozorg.cdn.mozilla.net/media/caldata/IndiaHolidays.ics and do a 
similar one for 2016 which could be integrated into Hamara. You could 
open it in your favorite editor and you will see it is simple to 
understand.

I *think* I might have shared that calendaring in itself has lot of 
potential as lot of business users do see an advantage to that including 
yours truly. It would certainly take down lot of head and heartache if 
you have a good calendaring solution.

The same could be said for having screensavers and all such. Funny 
quotes, inside-outside jokes all are part of many a GNU/Linux 
distribution. For instance, GNU/Linux Debian rules or even Debian/rules 
for many seem to say that Debian rules but most Developers that it 
actually is talking about the Debian/rules file that needs to be filled 
in when you are packaging or the fame/infamy one of 'Ittu Sa Tha' which 
was coined during Kapil Sharma's Comedy nights which for normal people 
is about a small child when in reality 'Dadi' is talking about sperm as 
can be seen on the T-shirt as well. You can also see how the T-shirt and 
the expression is also censored in Pakistan and Middle-East where the 
sperm graphic is not seen.

All in all, there is no dearth of work there, just needs one or more 
people to actually start contributing. Also apart from hamara logo and 
mascot, most of the work can be upstreamed as well so everybody can 
benefit from it. At the very least, the calendar can be submitted as an 
.ics file to mozilla as well.

The standard and how it works is given a bit at 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar

You would probably have to read a bit but is/would be useful for 
yourself both in short and medium-range.

Hopefully, some people might find it interesting and do something with 
the above.

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