Hey everyone! In case you haven’t heard yet, the next instance of Canvas is almost here, starting on Friday the 12th at 12:00 AM EDT (July 12, 04:00 UTC). Canvas is a collaborative art project on the Fediverse, akin to Reddit’s r/place, where everyone gets a few pixels at a time to add to a shared canvas.

Last year, we added our instance logo to the canvas, and I think it would be great to do something like that again this year.

Here’s a template-ready version based on last year’s final result. It’s 71x46 pixels:

A pixelated version of the Lemmy.zip logo

(in the actual final version, the orange line under the “.zip” was extended into a full border all the way around, but ran into the bottom of the nose and lower left whisker, so i trimmed it off. if we want to add that back, it should be nudged one pixel lower)

Here’s the template so you can see how it’ll look on the Canvas.

You may notice the Canvas is only 500x500 this time (as opposed to 1000x1000 last year), and it’s also been opened to the entire Fediverse (versus just Lemmy last time), so we may have to fight a little to keep our space.

The big question is where to put it? Should we arrange a space for ourselves now or just wing it and find a blank spot a few hours in?

If anyone has any other ideas for things we could add alongside/instead of the logo, feel free to shout them out! If you’re in the Lemmy.zip Matrix space, you can also join the Canvas Talk room for discussion and coordination

If you want to join any other projects, I know our !squaredcircle@lemmy.zip has a plan, there’s a dedicated group organization post on the host community !canvas@toast.ooo, and of course there’s nothing stopping from putting your own by yourself