[Tango-artists] Intern position filled

[Rodney Dawes]

Great news! I can't wait to see Tango style icons in Houdini. Maybe
you can share some screenshots, once the project gets going? :) Also,
it would be great to have feedback on how the style guidelines work
for the icons you need, or don't, if that is how things happen to be.
Feedback on other parts of Tango from you, your new intern, or even
your legal staff (if they have any concerns about the licensing), would
be great to hear as well. Feel free to have your intern join this list,
and hang out in our irc channel on Freenode, to discuss things. :)

The idea sounds great. We're working on sorting out a few issues with
licensing at the moment (CC-by-SA is considered incompatible with GPL,
among other things), to hopefully make Tango even more of a juicy option
for ISVs and developers, like SideFX. Once all that is sorted though,
maybe we can convince Google or perhaps other companies as well, to do
this once Summer.

Thanks for the support. It's great to have someone like you interested
in the project.

-- dobey


On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 04:07 -0400, Matt Chaput wrote:
> Just wanted to let the list know we (Side Effects Software Inc.)  
> found someone for the internship from one of the local design  
> schools... presumably someone who still lives with their parents ;)
> 
> As an aside, I thought I'd share an idea I had...
> 
> My original bizarre idea, after I realized I'd never have the time to  
> do the icons myself, but before we managed to get the money  
> authorized for an intern, was that I would make an offer to the  
> entire icon designing community to pay $10 cash money for each icon  
> off a list (out of my own pocket -- that's how desperate I was).  
> Anybody could choose to do any icon and if it was good enough, I'd  
> send them $10 (CDN, but it's almost like real money) and it would be  
> released under the same CCL as Tango.
> 
> It's probably crazy, and it would probably drive a corporate  
> accountant mad. But I wonder if it could work. There are enough  
> people out there doing icons and giving them away. Not all of them of  
> equal talent, but... I wonder if the talented ones would say to  
> themselves "Self, I was going to do an icon of a duck for nothing,  
> but if I do an icon of a film camera I get $10 (or $8, or 5  
> pounds...) and I can at least supersize my fries tonight!"
> 
> It's sort of a micro-multi-Summer-Of-Icons.
> 
> Oh well, the great experiment will have to wait...
> 
> Matt