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===Notes/announcements===
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* Artists should add this to their watchlist, to receive updates when new projects are posted.
* Artists should add this to their watchlist, to receive updates when new projects are posted.
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* Artists can also check [[Ongoing Community Art Projects]] for ongoing projects that any/everyone can help with.
* Artists can also check [[Ongoing Community Art Projects]] for ongoing projects that any/everyone can help with.
* For more general information, see [[Community:Art]]
* For more general information, see [[Community:Art]]
* Check out old projects at [[Art Wanted/Archives]]


For organization: Please put new projects at the top of the list. Completed projects should be removed or clearly marked as no longer applicable (I will create a space for completed art projects and link to it from here). --[[User:Nlee|Nikki]]
For organization: Please put new projects at the top of the list. Completed projects should be removed or clearly marked as no longer applicable (I will create a space for completed art projects and link to it from here). --[[User:Nlee|Nikki]]


===Art Wanted===
===Art Wanted===
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! width="5%" | Title of Project
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! width="38%" | Project Description & Contact (link to user page)
<th>Project Name</th>
! width="10% | Type of Art Needed (icons? character art? illustrations?)
<th>Project Description</th>
! width="5%" | Artists Involved (link to user page)
<th>Type of Art Needed</th>
! width="42%" | Notes/Comments
<th>Contact</th>
<th>Artists Involved</th>
<th>Additional Information</th>
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<td>the title/name of your project</td>
<td>a basic description of your project</td>
<td>what kind of art you want (icons? character art? illustrations?)</td>
<td>who to contact (link to user page suggested)</td>
<td>tell us who's working on it, so people can communicate</td>
<td>anything else you want to say</td>
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<td>[[Simplified user guide]] graphics</td>
<td>Black and white or greyscale graphics of the XO to explain tasks with pictures instead of words. Top priorities are images showing the opening and flipping of the case, turning it on, charging the battery, plugging in peripherals, and a graphic of the XO created so that screenshots can fit into the graphic.<br> Additional requirements [[Simplified_user_guide/Art_needed | SUG Art Needed]]</td>
<td>There are several sample photos of the approximate areas we are trying to describe, in the laptop wiki. The general concept follows the Pixter manual's style as shown in [http://www.fisher-price.com/inst_sheets/H4651a-0920.pdf this PDF].


|-
The tool used for creation doesn't matter as much as the ability to get graphics that can be used in print or web, such as both EPS and JPG. Ideally it would be a program that uses layers for easier editing later. Especially important is that the text can later be easily separated from the graphic for translation to additional languages. There is further information about graphics formats for OLPC on [[choosing image formats]]. However, please keep in mind that we'd like to use these for print output, not just online output</td>
| Logo design for XS Server
<td>[[user:Annegentle|Annegentle]] [[user:Sethwoodworth|isforinsects]]</td>
| XS logo required for branding the XS Server:
<td>This would make a wonderful portfolio piece for someone. Please help.</td>
1. Chassis badge/sticker. 2. Grub background at boot time during install and normal boots. 3. Installer splash screen. 4. Logo on web-based tools - we'll initially be using moodle and mediawiki as the 'face' of the XS, so a small, easily identifiable logo will be good. 5. URL bar icon (favicon.ico). 6. T-shirts. (Edges/shadows with gaussian blur discouraged as it'll be hard to blend on CSS-based themes.)
<td>n/a</td>
Contact: [[User:Jeff_brown|Jeff Brown]]
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| Logo, favicon, artwork. If you have access to XS, the following command will give you a list of most of what we need: "rpm -ql fedora-logos (pipe sign) grep '\.' (pipe) grep '\(grub\(pipe)rhgb\(pipe)anac\)' (pipe) xargs gthumb"
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| [[User:Jeff_brown|Jeff Brown]]
<td>Brazil Game Jam</td>
| The submissions will be judged by members of the xs-devel mailing list.
<td>The Brazil Game Jam needs artists - being in Brazil is not a requirement.</td>
Closing date: 15 October 2008.
<td>various art needed</td>
<td>[[user:SJ|SJ]], [[user:Mchua|Mel]], or [[user:Nlee|Nikki]]</td>
<td>n/a</td>
<td>n/a</td>
</tr>


|-
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| Wordless XO Repair Manual
<td>ISIS - [[Adventure Stories]]</td>
| Step-by-step visual guide to disassembling and reassembling an XO
<td>adventure/rpg game creator, where children develop their adventure/rpg simple games</td>
| Drawings from photographs
<td>Make simple images like a bag for inventory, screen's designs</td>
| Meredith Lucks, Alexandre Van de Sande
<td>[[User:Faga|Faga]] 13:56, 11 August 2007 (EDT)</td>
| The model for this project is Roy Doty's [http://www.roydoty.com/syndicated/wordless-panel.htm Wordless Workshop].
<td>Nobody yet. Please take this task!</td>
<td></td>
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|-
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| XO Repair Shop
<td>Redesign [[Activity Grid]]</td>
| An eye-friendly way of approaching XO Repair Center Clients. Helping Repair Centers to capture some of the touch and feel of the OLPC project to help Repair Centers participate in OLPC's 'corporate design'. (Without implying liability by OLPC for repair work)
<td>The [[Activity Grid]] is where everyone (developers, contributors, and end-users, including kids) is going to learn about/download/use various .xo activities for the laptop, and it needs to be easier and more pleasant to use - colors, graphics, icons, etc.</td>
Contact: [[User:TTown | Stefan]]
<td>Graphic/webdesign</td>
| graphical guidelines / icons / templates
<td>[[User:Sj|SJ Klein]]</td>
| AuniMame did it! (Thank You)
<td>Needs an artist!</td>
|Maybe something like the icon you see when shutting down your XO (second row, second from the left --> XO with broken display and wrench). Actually maybe two icons, one optimized for black and white (print) reproduction and one for color (--> print media and Repair Shop web sites). And some guidelines on howto create a flyer that quickly establishes a visiual link to the XO project. Maybe even an iconic sequence reflecting the http://www.laptop.org homepage theme but using only three symbols instead of four: The - broken - XO, the arrow, and a wrench (leaving out the '1' on the left). Or just create something you feel fitting.<br>
<td>Would be great to have this done by the end of September for Release 2.</td>
AuntiMame offered this logo / icon: [[Image:repair1.png]] and I used it in [[media:XO_Repair_Flyer.odt|this Flyer]].
</tr>


|-
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| [[Colors!]] Example Paintings & Tutorials
<td>"Translate/Translations" icon</td>
| A simple natural media painting program.
<td>Find or make an icon that means "translation/multilingual/translate."</td>
Contact: [[User:Wade]]
<td>Icon</td>
| Examples
<td>[[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]]</td>
|
<td>[[User:HoboPrimate|Eduardo]]</td>
| Colors! supports playing back the strokes that make up a painting. We need a series of interesting paintings of various difficulty to inspire kids, and we would also like to have a series of tutorial paintings showing simple techniques like shading and drawing people and animals.
<td>For use in templates, translations, multilingual books, etc. Simple, small (legible at 32x32px), square, scaleable, preferably monotone. Think [http://www.iconbuffet.com/tags/standard standard icons] (albeit w/ the option of being monotone) or the [http://www.feedicons.com/ rss icon]. Ideally would be usable outside the OLPC project to mean "translate" as well... there may already be such a standard icon, but I can't find one - but look first, and ask around.</td>
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|-
<tr>
| [[Colors!]] Toolbar Icons
<td>Review Squad icon</td>
| A simple natural media painting program.
<td>Need a visual image that means "[[Review squad]]", our cadre of kid reviewers/testers (for both software and content).</td>
Contact: [[User:Wade]]
<td>simple icon</td>
| Icons
<td>[[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]]</td>
| [[User:loser|loser]]
<td>[[User:Delucks|Delucks]],[[User:HoboPrimate|Eduardo]]</td>
| Colors! needs the following toolbar icons:
<td>What we really need is a fifth "icon" (like the four "1" "laptop" "arrow" "xo" icons on the front of [http://laptop.org laptop.org]) to denote "Review squad," a kid reviewing something. Perhaps the "xo" icon wearing a baseball cap, with lightbulb over their head, or pencil in hand?</td>
* <s>Show Palette</s>
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* <s>Take Reference Picture</s>
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* <s>Show Reference Picture</s>
<td>Review Squad wikipage banner</td>
* <s>Video Paint</s>
<td>Make a "splash banner" logo for the [[Review squad]] (for an example of a splash banner with text below it, look [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:GameJam_BostonJune2007_Header.gif here] - we want a similar picture w/o the text)</td>
<td>wikipage banner</td>
<td>[[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]]</td>
<td>[[User:HoboPrimate|Eduardo]]</td>
<td>Needs review squad icon, above. It will be easy to make the logo/banner from there.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Review Squad OBX</td>
<td>Make an OBX for [[Review squad]] members to place on their userpages.</td>
<td>OBX</td>
<td>[[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]]</td>
<td>Nobody yet. Please take this task!</td>
<td>Should use the "Review squad" icon from the "Review squad icon" task above.</td>
</tr>
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<td>Review Squad webpage badges</td>
<td>Make little (static, animated, whatever) badges that people can put on their webpages to show membership in or support of the OLPC review squads.</td>
<td>small [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_badges webpage badges]</td>
<td>[[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]]</td>
<td>Nobody yet. Please take this task!</td>
<td>Should use the "Review squad" icon from the "Review squad icon" task above. There should be at least two badges - one for [[Review squad]] members (kids, under 18) and one for supporters, maybe a "Member of the OLPC Review Squad" and a "Join the OLPC Review Squad" one, respectively.</td>
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<td>[[Summer of Content]] logo/shirt</td>
<td>Make a logo for the [[Summer of Content 2007]] program, and a t-shirt design (they can be the same thing, or we can put some kind of witty quote on the back of the t-shirt, or they can be two separate things, or whatever). Estimated work time < 6hr total including discussions, editing, and tweaking.</td>
<td>Logo and shirt design. Vector graphics preferred, t-shirt design should use 3 colors or less if possible (bonus points for good-lookin' monochrome!) </td>
<td>[[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]]</td>
<td>I can do it. Anyone who has ideas or wants to collaborate can hit my talk page, though!--[[User:nlee|Nikki]]</td>
<td>'''This is time-sensitive; we need the task finished before July 20, 2007.''' The Google Summer of Code logo looks like [http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=66271&topic=10733 this]. This logo will be used for everything in the [[Summer of Content 2007]] program - and possibly the [http://wikieducator.org/Summer_Of_Content_Funding_Proposal SoCon program in general], and the T-shirt will be printed and sent out to the 100-odd mentors and interns working this summer, so w00t. We'll send you one, too.</td>
</tr>


Please try out the activity in the latest Joyride or at http://www.wadeb.com/Colors-3.xo to see how they are used.
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<td>[[T-shirts]]</td>
<td>Wearable advertising to attract potential volunteers</td>
<td>T-shirt designs and art</td>
<td>[[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 11:59, 13 July 2007 (EDT)</td>
<td>everyone and anyone: [[Ongoing Community Art Projects]]</td>
<td></td>
</tr>


|-
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| [[Bounce]] Toolbar Icons
<td>background creation</td>
| A 3D action game.
<td>create backgrounds for games, so that game developers will have a database of game backgrounds</td>
Contact: [[User:Wade]]
<td>vector art would probably work well for this, but I leave it to your discretion</td>
| Icons
<td>[[User:nlee|Nikki]] or [[User:Mchua|Mel]]</td>
| [[User:loser|loser]]
<td>everyone and anyone: [[Ongoing Community Art Projects]]</td>
| <s>Bounce needs its activity icon to be updated</s>
<td></td>
It also needs the following toolbar icons:
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* <s>Show Game History</s>
* <s>Clear Game History</s>


Please try out the activity in the latest Joyride or at http://www.wadeb.com/Bounce-4.xo to see how they are used.
<tr>
<td>resource creation</td>
<td>Create a collection of coin and bill images, from all the trial-2 [[Countries]](green), as a resource for Activities.</td>
<td>Searching out images on the web, and basic image processing to prepare them for use.</td>
<td>[[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 10:32, 8 July 2007 (EDT)</td>
<td>[[User:Nlee|Nikki]]
<td>Bills are usually easy. Coin images, if they haven't been already, need to be clipped to the coin (no border), and the background made transparent. PNG being the ideal format. See also [[User:MitchellNCharity#Content: Images of currency - coins and bills/notes]].</td>
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|-
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| [[Food Force 2]]
<td>VisionScreeningDemo</td>
| A educational game based on FoodForce. The player must grow food and trade surplus with other villages in order to first achieve a balanced diet.
<td>visual acuity and other tests for vision screening</td>
<td>toolbar icons: 'left eye covered', 'right eye covered', 'both eyes uncovered'.</td>
<td>[[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 10:24, 24 June 2007 (EDT)</td>
<td>none</td>
<td>Perhaps come by #olpc-content and chat.</td>
</tr>


Contact: [[User:MohitTaneja]]
<tr>
| Illustrations of villagers are required, also some illustrations for a game character
<td>support for activity programmers and artists</td>
|
<td>assist creation of iso-luminance palettes</td>
|
<td>Find FOSS Lab or [[Munsell]] color pickers. And/or create tables of iso-luminance colors.</td>
<td>[[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 10:20, 24 June 2007 (EDT)</td>
<td>none</td>
<td>I want colorful activities. One obstacle is finding color values. Eg, "ok, I want a 128 gray line in direct sunlight, but I'd like it purple in color. What's the rgb value of a purple which becomes 128 gray in mono?". For tables, maybe {192,128,64,"very light, just a tint"} gray? In a few hues? Though finding a picker might be easier? Or am I missing something, and this is all easy if you just do ''foo''?


Xavi points out [[Munsell]]! With a palette! :) Which helps, but a richer palette would be nice. We don't need to use Munsell's colorspace-smushing coordinates.


|-
[[Display]] now has a code snippet which takes a gray-level, plus rgb, and returns a similar rgb which has roughly the given gray level.
| [[Project IT Girl]]
| High school girls are working on 30 educational games that need art. See the [[Project IT Girl|project page]] for details.


Contact: [[User:Clare|Clare]].
There is also a Munsell color table in the sugar source. I'm not sure if it's a duplicate of the one in [[Munsell]] or not.
| characters, objects, and background images
</td>
|
</tr>
|


|-
<tr>
| Health Content poster
<td>olpc wiki</td>
| We could use a poster/flyer design incorporating the text of [[Health_content#Flyer_info_.2F_Criteria]]. See [[User:SJ|SJ]]
<td>Create a video, composed of existing footage, selected for appeal to educators. To draw them in, and help build up the olpc educator community.</td>
| poster/ flyer
<td>video - clip selection, gathering and assembly. Finding good footage doesn't require editing skills, so that could be a separate task.</td>
||
<td>[[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 17:53, 21 June 2007 (EDT)</td>
||
<td>none</td>
<td>There is a lot of [[Video_of_the_OLPC|olpc-related video footage]]. Almost all unedited. When watching it, I think "oh, I wish I could show teacher friends that minute of that talk, and those seconds over there, and...". A video composed of these, perhaps posted in [[Educators]], might help build up the educator community.</td>
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|-
| logo for [[Music]] and for [[Math]]
| Can someone work on logos for the music and math portals, similar to the one for [[Health]]? See [[User:SJ|SJ]].
| Logos
|| [[user:AuntiMame|AuntiMame]], for one.
|| See [[Template:Math1]] and [[Template:Math2]] for suggestions and [[Template:Health]] for example [[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] 22:24, 5 March 2008 (EST)


|-
| Forum menu icons
| The [http://olpc.osuosl.org/forum community forum] could use some better menu items. Currently, they are too generic to convey meaning (live chat, global map, calendar). See [[Mburns]]
| Current [http://olpc.osuosl.org/templates/subSilver/images/menu_icons/icon_calendar.gif style]. We could really use some improvements on the following 5 icons: Forum / Live (IRC) Chat, volunteer global map, current events, support portal.
||
| Themeing and general color changes are encouraged.

|-
| Google push-pin XOs for Forum
| The [http://olpc.osuosl.org/forum community forum], is going to have a Google Maps-provided page, showing what city (participating) developers and volunteers live in. Useful for meetups, organizations and awesome statistics. :) See [[Mburns]]
| Icons; 15x15px transparent PNGs.
||
|| I would like XO icons with a couple different basic color combos. Volunteers, Developers, Translators, Educators, XO Users, etc... Pictures should be 15x15 pixel, transparent PNGs. [http://www.bassface3d.com/phoogle/map_marker_tut.html The map marker guide] explains it all.

|-
| [[Simplified user guide]] graphics
| Black and white or greyscale graphics of the XO to explain tasks with pictures instead of words. Top priorities are images <s>showing the opening and flipping of the case, turning it on, charging the battery</s>, plugging in peripherals, and <s>a graphic of the XO created so that screenshots can fit into the graphic</s>.
<br> Additional requirements and more requests are here [[Simplified_user_guide/Art_needed | SUG Art Needed]]. See [[user:Annegentle|Annegentle]] [[user:Sethwoodworth|isforinsects]] .
| Graphics: EPS or JPG, with text layers.
| [[user:leejc|Jon Lee]] and [[User:Gryphus|Gryphus]] have given us wonderful images. There are still more that would be appreciated - plugging in peripherals, such as perhaps using the tablet and/or an accessibility device. This would make a wonderful portfolio piece for someone. Please help.
| There are several sample photos of the approximate areas we are trying to describe, in the laptop wiki. The general concept follows the Pixter manual's style as shown in [http://www.fisher-price.com/inst_sheets/H4651a-0920.pdf this PDF].

The tool used for creation doesn't matter as much as the ability to reuse graphics in print or web, such as both EPS and JPG. Ideally it would be a program that uses layers for easier editing later. Especially important: text later separaable from the graphic for translation. There is further information about graphics formats for OLPC on [[choosing image formats]]. However, please keep in mind that we'd like to use these for print output, not just online output

|-
| ISIS - [[Adventure Stories]]
| adventure/rpg game creator, where children develop their adventure/rpg simple games, see [[User:Faga|Faga]] (August 2007)
| Make simple images like a bag for inventory, screen's designs
| Nobody yet. Please take this task!
||

|-
| Redesign [[Activity Grid]]
| The [[Activity Grid]] is where everyone (developers, contributors, and end-users, including kids) will learn about/download/use various .xo activities for the laptop. It needs to be easier and more pleasant to use - colors, graphics, icons, etc. See [[User:Sj|SJ Klein]]
| Graphic/ webdesign
| Needs an artist!
| Would be great to have this done by the end of September for Release 2.

|-
| "Translate/ Translations" icon
| Find or make an icon that means "translation/ multilingual/ translate." See [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]]
| Icon
| [[User:HoboPrimate|Eduardo]]
| For use in templates, translations, multilingual books, etc. Simple, small (legible at 32x32px), square, scalable, preferably monotone. Think [http://www.iconbuffet.com/tags/standard standard icons] (albeit w/ the option of being monotone) or the [http://www.feedicons.com/ rss icon]. Ideally usable outside the OLPC project to mean "translate" as well... there may already be such a standard icon, but I can't find one - look first, and ask around.


|-
| Review Squad wikipage banner
| Make a "splash banner" logo for the [[Review squad]] (for an example of a splash banner with text below it, look [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:GameJam_BostonJune2007_Header.gif here] - we want a similar picture w/o the text). See [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]]
| wikipage banner
| [[User:HoboPrimate|Eduardo]]
| Needs review squad icon, above. It will be easy to make the logo/banner from there.
|-
| Review Squad OBX
| Make an OBX for [[Review squad]] members to place on their userpages. See [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]]
| OBX
| Nobody yet. Please take this task!
| Should use the "Review squad" icon from the "Review squad icon" task above.
|-
| Review Squad webpage badges
| Make little (static, animated, whatever) badges that people can put on their webpages to show membership in or support of the OLPC review squads. See [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]]
| small [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_badges webpage badges]
| Nobody yet. Please take this task!
| Use the "Review squad" icon from the "Review squad icon" task above. There should be at least two badges - one for [[Review squad]] members (kids, under 18) and one for supporters, maybe a "Member of the OLPC Review Squad" and a "Join the OLPC Review Squad" one, respectively.
|-
| [[T-shirts]]
| Wearable advertising to attract potential volunteers. |see [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]]
| T-shirt designs and art
| everyone and anyone: [[Ongoing Community Art Projects]]
||

|-
| background creation
| create backgrounds for games, so that game developers will have a database of game backgrounds. See | [[User:nlee|Nikki]] or [[User:Mchua|Mel]]
| vector art would probably work well for this, but I leave it to your discretion
| everyone and anyone: [[Ongoing Community Art Projects]]
||


|-
| Vision Screening Demo
| visual acuity and other tests for vision screening. see [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]].
| toolbar icons: 'left eye covered', 'right eye covered', 'both eyes uncovered'.
| none
| Perhaps come by #olpc-content and chat.

|-
| support for activity programmers and artists
| assist creation of iso-luminance palettes. see [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]].
| Find FOSS Lab or [[Munsell]] color pickers. And/or create tables of iso-luminance colors.
| none
| I want colorful activities. One obstacle is finding color values. Eg, "ok, I want a 128 gray line in direct sunlight, but I'd like it purple in color. What's the rgb value of a purple which becomes 128 gray in mono?". For tables, maybe {192,128,64,"very light, just a tint"} gray? In a few hues? Though finding a picker might be easier?

Xavi points out [[Munsell]] with a palette! :) A richer palette would be nice. We don't need to use Munsell's colorspace-smushing coordinates. There is also a Munsell color table in the sugar source.
[[Display]] now has a code snippet which takes a gray-level, plus rgb, and returns a similar rgb which has roughly the given gray level.


<tr>
<td>OLPC content bundles</td>
<td>Improve design, colors and icons in [http://dev.laptop.org/~arael/preview/ these bundles].</td>
<td>.</td>
<td>Arael dicts(at)centrum.cz</td>
<td>Nobody yet. Please take this task!</td>
<td></td>
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|-
| olpc wiki
| Create a video, composed of existing footage, selected for appeal to educators. To draw them in, and help build up the olpc educator community. See [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] (June 2007)
| video - clip selection, gathering and assembly. Finding good footage doesn't require editing skills, so that could be a separate task.
| none
| There is a lot of [[Video_of_the_OLPC|olpc-related video footage]]. Almost all unedited. When watching it, I think "oh, I wish I could show teacher friends that minute of that talk, and those seconds over there, and...". A video composed of these, perhaps posted in [[Educators]], might help build up the educator community.


|-
</table>
| OLPC content bundles
| Improve design, colors and icons in [http://dev.laptop.org/~arael/preview/ these bundles]. See Arael dicts(at)centrum.cz
|
| Nobody yet. Please take this task!
||
|}


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Notes/announcements

For organization: Please put new projects at the top of the list. Completed projects should be removed or clearly marked as no longer applicable (I will create a space for completed art projects and link to it from here). --Nikki

Art Wanted

Title of Project Project Description & Contact (link to user page) Type of Art Needed (icons? character art? illustrations?) Artists Involved (link to user page) Notes/Comments


Logo design for XS Server XS logo required for branding the XS Server:

1. Chassis badge/sticker. 2. Grub background at boot time during install and normal boots. 3. Installer splash screen. 4. Logo on web-based tools - we'll initially be using moodle and mediawiki as the 'face' of the XS, so a small, easily identifiable logo will be good. 5. URL bar icon (favicon.ico). 6. T-shirts. (Edges/shadows with gaussian blur discouraged as it'll be hard to blend on CSS-based themes.) Contact: Jeff Brown

Logo, favicon, artwork. If you have access to XS, the following command will give you a list of most of what we need: "rpm -ql fedora-logos (pipe sign) grep '\.' (pipe) grep '\(grub\(pipe)rhgb\(pipe)anac\)' (pipe) xargs gthumb" Jeff Brown The submissions will be judged by members of the xs-devel mailing list.

Closing date: 15 October 2008.

Wordless XO Repair Manual Step-by-step visual guide to disassembling and reassembling an XO Drawings from photographs Meredith Lucks, Alexandre Van de Sande The model for this project is Roy Doty's Wordless Workshop.
XO Repair Shop An eye-friendly way of approaching XO Repair Center Clients. Helping Repair Centers to capture some of the touch and feel of the OLPC project to help Repair Centers participate in OLPC's 'corporate design'. (Without implying liability by OLPC for repair work)

Contact: Stefan

graphical guidelines / icons / templates AuniMame did it! (Thank You) Maybe something like the icon you see when shutting down your XO (second row, second from the left --> XO with broken display and wrench). Actually maybe two icons, one optimized for black and white (print) reproduction and one for color (--> print media and Repair Shop web sites). And some guidelines on howto create a flyer that quickly establishes a visiual link to the XO project. Maybe even an iconic sequence reflecting the http://www.laptop.org homepage theme but using only three symbols instead of four: The - broken - XO, the arrow, and a wrench (leaving out the '1' on the left). Or just create something you feel fitting.

AuntiMame offered this logo / icon: Repair1.png and I used it in this Flyer.

Colors! Example Paintings & Tutorials A simple natural media painting program.

Contact: User:Wade

Examples Colors! supports playing back the strokes that make up a painting. We need a series of interesting paintings of various difficulty to inspire kids, and we would also like to have a series of tutorial paintings showing simple techniques like shading and drawing people and animals.
Colors! Toolbar Icons A simple natural media painting program.

Contact: User:Wade

Icons loser Colors! needs the following toolbar icons:
  • Show Palette
  • Take Reference Picture
  • Show Reference Picture
  • Video Paint

Please try out the activity in the latest Joyride or at http://www.wadeb.com/Colors-3.xo to see how they are used.

Bounce Toolbar Icons A 3D action game.

Contact: User:Wade

Icons loser Bounce needs its activity icon to be updated

It also needs the following toolbar icons:

  • Show Game History
  • Clear Game History

Please try out the activity in the latest Joyride or at http://www.wadeb.com/Bounce-4.xo to see how they are used.

Food Force 2 A educational game based on FoodForce. The player must grow food and trade surplus with other villages in order to first achieve a balanced diet.

Contact: User:MohitTaneja

Illustrations of villagers are required, also some illustrations for a game character


Project IT Girl High school girls are working on 30 educational games that need art. See the project page for details.

Contact: Clare.

characters, objects, and background images
Health Content poster We could use a poster/flyer design incorporating the text of Health_content#Flyer_info_.2F_Criteria. See SJ poster/ flyer
logo for Music and for Math Can someone work on logos for the music and math portals, similar to the one for Health? See SJ. Logos AuntiMame, for one. See Template:Math1 and Template:Math2 for suggestions and Template:Health for example Seth 22:24, 5 March 2008 (EST)
Forum menu icons The community forum could use some better menu items. Currently, they are too generic to convey meaning (live chat, global map, calendar). See Mburns Current style. We could really use some improvements on the following 5 icons: Forum / Live (IRC) Chat, volunteer global map, current events, support portal. Themeing and general color changes are encouraged.
Google push-pin XOs for Forum The community forum, is going to have a Google Maps-provided page, showing what city (participating) developers and volunteers live in. Useful for meetups, organizations and awesome statistics. :) See Mburns Icons; 15x15px transparent PNGs. I would like XO icons with a couple different basic color combos. Volunteers, Developers, Translators, Educators, XO Users, etc... Pictures should be 15x15 pixel, transparent PNGs. The map marker guide explains it all.
Simplified user guide graphics Black and white or greyscale graphics of the XO to explain tasks with pictures instead of words. Top priorities are images showing the opening and flipping of the case, turning it on, charging the battery, plugging in peripherals, and a graphic of the XO created so that screenshots can fit into the graphic.


Additional requirements and more requests are here SUG Art Needed. See Annegentle isforinsects .

Graphics: EPS or JPG, with text layers. Jon Lee and Gryphus have given us wonderful images. There are still more that would be appreciated - plugging in peripherals, such as perhaps using the tablet and/or an accessibility device. This would make a wonderful portfolio piece for someone. Please help. There are several sample photos of the approximate areas we are trying to describe, in the laptop wiki. The general concept follows the Pixter manual's style as shown in this PDF.

The tool used for creation doesn't matter as much as the ability to reuse graphics in print or web, such as both EPS and JPG. Ideally it would be a program that uses layers for easier editing later. Especially important: text later separaable from the graphic for translation. There is further information about graphics formats for OLPC on choosing image formats. However, please keep in mind that we'd like to use these for print output, not just online output


ISIS - Adventure Stories adventure/rpg game creator, where children develop their adventure/rpg simple games, see Faga (August 2007) Make simple images like a bag for inventory, screen's designs Nobody yet. Please take this task!
Redesign Activity Grid The Activity Grid is where everyone (developers, contributors, and end-users, including kids) will learn about/download/use various .xo activities for the laptop. It needs to be easier and more pleasant to use - colors, graphics, icons, etc. See SJ Klein Graphic/ webdesign Needs an artist! Would be great to have this done by the end of September for Release 2.
"Translate/ Translations" icon Find or make an icon that means "translation/ multilingual/ translate." See Mel Chua Icon Eduardo For use in templates, translations, multilingual books, etc. Simple, small (legible at 32x32px), square, scalable, preferably monotone. Think standard icons (albeit w/ the option of being monotone) or the rss icon. Ideally usable outside the OLPC project to mean "translate" as well... there may already be such a standard icon, but I can't find one - look first, and ask around.


Review Squad wikipage banner Make a "splash banner" logo for the Review squad (for an example of a splash banner with text below it, look here - we want a similar picture w/o the text). See Mel Chua wikipage banner Eduardo Needs review squad icon, above. It will be easy to make the logo/banner from there.
Review Squad OBX Make an OBX for Review squad members to place on their userpages. See Mel Chua OBX Nobody yet. Please take this task! Should use the "Review squad" icon from the "Review squad icon" task above.
Review Squad webpage badges Make little (static, animated, whatever) badges that people can put on their webpages to show membership in or support of the OLPC review squads. See Mel Chua small webpage badges Nobody yet. Please take this task! Use the "Review squad" icon from the "Review squad icon" task above. There should be at least two badges - one for Review squad members (kids, under 18) and one for supporters, maybe a "Member of the OLPC Review Squad" and a "Join the OLPC Review Squad" one, respectively.
T-shirts see MitchellNCharity T-shirt designs and art everyone and anyone: Ongoing Community Art Projects
background creation Nikki or Mel vector art would probably work well for this, but I leave it to your discretion everyone and anyone: Ongoing Community Art Projects


Vision Screening Demo visual acuity and other tests for vision screening. see MitchellNCharity. toolbar icons: 'left eye covered', 'right eye covered', 'both eyes uncovered'. none Perhaps come by #olpc-content and chat.
support for activity programmers and artists assist creation of iso-luminance palettes. see MitchellNCharity. Find FOSS Lab or Munsell color pickers. And/or create tables of iso-luminance colors. none I want colorful activities. One obstacle is finding color values. Eg, "ok, I want a 128 gray line in direct sunlight, but I'd like it purple in color. What's the rgb value of a purple which becomes 128 gray in mono?". For tables, maybe {192,128,64,"very light, just a tint"} gray? In a few hues? Though finding a picker might be easier?

Xavi points out Munsell with a palette! :) A richer palette would be nice. We don't need to use Munsell's colorspace-smushing coordinates. There is also a Munsell color table in the sugar source. Display now has a code snippet which takes a gray-level, plus rgb, and returns a similar rgb which has roughly the given gray level.


olpc wiki Create a video, composed of existing footage, selected for appeal to educators. To draw them in, and help build up the olpc educator community. See MitchellNCharity (June 2007) video - clip selection, gathering and assembly. Finding good footage doesn't require editing skills, so that could be a separate task. none There is a lot of olpc-related video footage. Almost all unedited. When watching it, I think "oh, I wish I could show teacher friends that minute of that talk, and those seconds over there, and...". A video composed of these, perhaps posted in Educators, might help build up the educator community.
OLPC content bundles Improve design, colors and icons in these bundles. See Arael dicts(at)centrum.cz Nobody yet. Please take this task!
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