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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 09:25, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Something I wanted us to try was the idea of "convergence days", where we'd
> publish a data file quietly which would say "on such and such a date, try to
> be as close to this as possible", specifying the position and parameters of
> the various effects / lights / features. That way, we'd have weeks of
> divergence, then a "rush to convergence" over say 5 days, so on a particular
> day everyone's desktop looks the same again.
>
> I thought of using constellations [..]
>

So you are suggesting Ubuntu may receive it's own nightsky? Constellations
are a beautiful idea, cultures all over the planet (and perhaps all over
other planets also) have been aware of constellations at all times, one of
the oldest human observations at all.