Hi, I'm Abi and I'm new to the debian mailing lists. I was told about the request for wheezy artwork proposals and as I'm interested in contributing, I had a talk with pabs and he suggested I drop all these ideas I had onto the mailing lists and therefore here it goes <rant> I had a look at the guidelines for submitting proposals and I feel it's tedious and almost discouraging to some extent because you're asked to submit not one but different concepts and ideas for various things, and pile it all up as one proposal. While this may look good for debian, it certainly is hard from a designer's perspective because it certainly isn't a one man job if you try to go by the proposal guidelines. You will certainly need a team to put together all that and for what it's worth, it just might even get rejected.
1. So, instead my idea was that debian have a communication channel, currently there's #debian-desktop, wherein we discuss these things besides the mailing list and to schedule meetings on irc. 2. We branch out each task from the overall theme. i.e we allow people to make individual submissions be it for the Boot Screen or for the wallpaper. This way even if a proposal for a wallpaper is rejected, the artist/designer isn't going to be discouraged and will likely come back up with another concept and likely faster. 3. We set a time slot/stage for submissions. Preferably a submission stage where it's open to everyone and we take a vote, the selected concepts move to the second stage and then a vote again, and finally to the final stage where the concepts can be molded and re-touched before it is ready to be released. That's all I have to add for now. Let me know if this seems like a rational approach or something we can work out so we dont have to go through the gruesome process of having to submit one gigantic proposal. Cheers Abi
