Project WIKI

Smokey · March 25, 2008, 11:09:05 AM

Then it would be a good thing to fill in this blank, ne?

iDarbert · March 25, 2008, 11:11:19 AM

Quote from: "Smokey"Then it would be a good thing to fill in this blank, ne?

Right away sir!

This is gonna be more exciting than that time I played Through the Fire and the Flames in Expert mode!
iDarbert (strums last note): YES! Oh wait, I accidently pressed Start at 15%...

C-Chan · March 25, 2008, 11:14:08 AM

QuoteI think I'll have to "whatever" that one... I still think they should be grouped along with the rest of the app-tans.

Yeah, you wouldn't have been the first person to ask that. ^__^

But basically, they're separated for legacy purposes -- they were a separate project from the canon OS-tans as iDarbert said and even had their own separate Wikipedia article (before they pulled it).

While I would love to differentiate Freeware or FOSS-tans, the truth of the matter is that their separation is purely symbolic, more out of respect for their original artists.

QuoteBy the way, anybody minds if I create a page for Haiku?

Sure thing. ^^
Just don't forget to mention Kami-Tux' Haiku-tan, as she's the only one who volunteered a design for this BeOS successor. ^.^

Kiso · March 25, 2008, 11:26:48 AM

QuoteYeah, you wouldn't have been the first person to ask that. ^__^

But basically, they're separated for legacy purposes -- they were a separate project from the canon OS-tans as iDarbert said and even had their own separate Wikipedia article (before they pulled it).

While I would love to differentiate Freeware or FOSS-tans, the truth of the matter is that their separation is purely symbolic, more out of respect for their original artists.

Cheers to you on this one... lol

*prances about whimsically*
Tra-lala-lala-lala... wonder what was what I was supposed to be doing. Oh yeah! I need to work on certain ~-tan articles!
*runs off to work*

C-Chan · March 25, 2008, 11:31:15 AM

Oh right, a quick correction to what I said earlier. Apparently our new friend iDarbert has been withholding valuable Haiku-tan designs from us for years, so yeah feel free to base the article primarily on your design (you ARE writing it after all). ^___^

You might also consider opening a local User Gallery so we can help store all your OS-tan pics. -v-

iDarbert · March 25, 2008, 11:37:06 AM

Quote from: "C-Chan"Sure thing. ^^
Just don't forget to mention Kami-Tux' Haiku-tan, as she's the only one who volunteered a design for this BeOS successor. ^.^

Oh, I didn't knew.
Is there any place I find information about her design so I can put it into the wiki page right away?

Also, this is the first draft
http://ostan-collections.net/wiki/Haiku

I decided not to include a link to my gallery even if it features many pictures of her for obvious reasons.

Smokey · March 25, 2008, 11:45:04 AM

nice...

C-Chan · March 25, 2008, 11:48:19 AM

Here actually, although I mistook her for Syllable (which she did provide a bit of background information for):

http://ostan-collections.net/viewtopic.php?p=20657&search_id=241004561#20657

Her Haiku-tan is more like a one-shot, so it probably need not be anything larger than a small reference at the end. -v-

BTW, thanks for providing a cute avatar of Haiku-tan, btw.

iDarbert · March 25, 2008, 11:50:01 AM

In case someone wonders my DA page is now empty because I decided to leave DA and deleted all the deviations (one by one by the way... stupid mass-deleting-less system >_>), but you can ask anybody who knows me from there one of my first deviations ever (first was a desktop screenshot) was a Haiku sketch.

Unfortunately I had a hard drive crash that made me lose all of my old pictures (right when Time Machine was temporarly disabled and the old backups deleted, go figure), thus I was only able to re-upload the newer ones.

Shame all of that got lost, but anyway that's a thing of the past.

QuoteBTW, thanks for providing a cute avatar of Haiku-tan, btw.

Anytime

Smokey · March 25, 2008, 11:55:06 AM

*sits and waits for the wiki for FCL-tan and Fedora-tan*

Writing the article for Fedora-tan would be a fitting task for Fedora-Sama, by the way

C-Chan · March 25, 2008, 11:58:08 AM

Before I drew my own, Juzo-kun's Fedora-sama was my absolute favorite of all the Linux-tans. So I entrust you to do justice for one of the finest (and "hawttest") FOSS girls around. ^__^

BTW, iDarbert, sorry to hear about your loss. I'm actually glad now I never opted to open a DA page -- apparently it was good before, but went downhill last year according to local user reports. '__'

Smokey · March 25, 2008, 12:00:38 PM

EEK! not me, yet.... I'm still struggling (hard) with ASUS-tan...
I'm still learning to draw..... ;010

iDarbert · March 25, 2008, 12:03:13 PM

Quote from: "C-Chan"BTW, iDarbert, sorry to hear about your loss. I'm actually glad now I never opted to open a DA page -- apparently it was good before, but went downhill last year according to local user reports. '__'

My "demise" actually caused a lot of useless drama with local users, I think that's what went downhill in DA - not really the portal itself but the users who populate it.
But basically I left because it wasn't what I was looking for.

Since barely nobody commented there was really no need for me to be there, so I took everything down planning to reupload it in a personal gallery over which I had more power, but then tragedy struck.
So now I designed my own gallery and it's like I wanted it to be, but with a huge chunk of my past artwork lost forever.

Well, I still have very old drawings around the house (among them some of the lost ones), perhaps I should scan them before they rot.

Kiso · March 25, 2008, 12:54:33 PM

Hmm... you should do exactly that... scan your stuff... oh, and have back ups... even a CD, DVD, BD... or whatever you want is an option... but make sure you do it... or you might regret it for the rest of your life.... like I do for loosing 7 years worth of drawings... and then some. --__--'

iDarbert · March 25, 2008, 01:07:13 PM

Quote from: "Kiso"Hmm... you should do exactly that... scan your stuff... oh, and have back ups... even a CD, DVD, BD... or whatever you want is an option... but make sure you do it... or you might regret it for the rest of your life.... like I do for loosing 7 years worth of drawings... and then some. --__--'

Well I *did* have backups, I was using Time Machine, but ironically a few days before it happened I had the great idea of formatting my hard drive as HFS case-sensitive, while the external one was case insensitive so when I first tried to back up I got a "This hard drive cannot be used with Time Machine" error.

So I either had to format the main hard drive or the external hard drive, I decided to think about what to do and do it later but then the internal HDD crashed.
I back up regularly since I got Leopard, but I guess bad luck can overcome any barrier you put between yourself and massive data loss :/