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Canvas (fedi's r/place) starts in 12 days, here's the Australia flag plans this year! (aussie.zone)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This year the flag will be the same size as last years as we nearly finished it last year. It has a small aboriginal flag on it, a large bluey and the text aussie.zone in the bottom right.

Here is the template for this year: https://canvas.fediverse.events/#x=90&y=78&zoom=4&tu=https%3A%2F%2Faussie.zone%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F93987250-cd08-4e21-9b00-dbd13669ffe4.png&tw=200&tx=0&ty=0&ts=ONE_TO_ONE

Before using it you will have to lower the transparency in canvas settings (and you'll have to wait for canvas to start :) )

We also have a matrix chat for the flag: #australiacanvas:matrix.org

Please allow others to place art on the flag and don't damage it unless it is another countries flag, covers the stars, union jack, bluey, or other important parts of the flag.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Huh. Well this went from "something to look into next week" to "Oops, it's finished already".
Looks like there wasn't much interest this year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Huh. Well this went from "something to look into next week" to "Oops, it's finished already".

Hah, I was much the same. I went to check on it last night / early this morning and realized I had straight up missed the whole thing.

Looks like there wasn't much interest this year.

I wonder how much of this is less activity in threadiverse in general vs less interest (or less promotion of?) Canvas this year. As a random data point, last year I remember seeing Canvas promoted several times in my feed leading up to the event, but I think this year I only saw it here and maybe once in [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I did probably venture outside Aussie.zone more last year in truth. These days I very rarely do that. My time is too limited to waste it doom scrolling the shit show that is US politics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I couldn't do it most of the time and nobody got enough done to get the ball rolling. Didn't help that there was a group entirely dedicated to vandalizing it this year. We got an aboriginal flag and the southern cross done but the Vietnamese replaced the aboriginal flag with theirs and the arsenal fans who said they wouldn't damage the stars removed them.

Doesn't matter tho we still have next year, hopefully we get some more people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I went to check out the status of the Torres Strait Islander flag and ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole in regards to the Australian Aboriginal flag:

The flag's current legal status was debated in an Australian Senate estimates committee in mid‑February 2022, when it was also revealed that the Morrison government had paid $13.75m to Thomas to assume copyright, and also paid $6.3m to two non-Indigenous businesses which held licences to use the flag. These companies are WAM Clothing, which received $5.2m, and Wooster Holdings, which was paid $1.1m. Interests in both companies are held by Gold Coast businessman Ben Wooster, former director of Birubi Art (which was fined $2.3m in 2018 for selling fake Aboriginal art).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Is Carroll & Richardson Flagworld an indigenous business? As far as I know they hold the exclusive licence to manufacture the Aboriginal Flag in actual flag form and I wonder why they're not mentioned

Edit: I looked into it a bit more and it seems that the exclusive licence held by Carroll & Richardson was kept to ensure a high quality and that manufacturing of the flag stays in Australia, which is actually quite good IMO.

Explains why those flags are so expensive...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a bit dumb that the govt doesn't just make the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags public domain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe it's like the GPL: using copyright to ensure it isn't misused?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think I'll be helping this year, it's too bloody hot over here to deal with all the surrounding drama (from people who try to sabotage the flag), but it's cool to see that the Aboriginal Flag is now "officially" part of it