The Canvas event is the Fediverse's take on r/place, I.E, a collaborative artwork where every participant can place down a single pixel every 30 seconds.
This limitation means the only way to assemble a larger piece of art is for people to come together in groups to collectively decide what they'll be drawing (usually with a pixel art template someone proposes), where it will be on the canvas, and communicate with other groups working on neighboring artworks so as not to impede their efforts, or even to negotiate mutual aid treaties to help maintain each other's art from potential hit-and-run attacks.
SLRPNK participated in 2024's Canvas event, which @Five@slrpnk.net documented in one of our previous Monthly Meta's. There's also a fun timelapse from last year's Canvas event here.
If there are any Solarpunks interested in participating this year, this thread might be a good place to organize and collaborate :)
The Canvas Event will take place at this link On July 17th, and run for 48 hours. Here is their official post about it for more details.
So I was thinking about making a template and I realized that the size of the piece we can make depends entirely on the 'man-hours' our instance members can contribute. As an example, if one person can give just one hour to the event, they can place ~100 pixels (not 120 since we're not bots lol) so that's a 10x10 space. So four people contributing 1 hour each or one person contributing 4 hours can enable us to make a 20x20 piece. And so on... So I was wondering if there is a way we can get a rough idea of our total 'man-hours' so we can make a decent sized piece? We can wing it and make a small one and then expand it / make more if we have more people but the former method might be more resource effecient maybe.
Front page says slrpnk.net has 180 users/day. Maybe 10% of them would do canvas for a while? I don't imagine even that many would commit an hour to obsessive pixel-clicking; maybe not even 100 times over the course of a day...