On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Paul W. Frields <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I just read the post here by Owen and it specifically says "request." > Anything else is reportage or inference. > Is it? I wasn't attending the meeting but it really looks like it is being pushed through to me. I mean, honestly, who on the Design Team would be in favour of this and why? I strongly urge those who are to speak out. I am not saying this is a conspiracy, all I am saying is that it's against how I understood we've done things in the past and it takes away a big hallmark of the Design Team work for a reason that surely don't benefits the team members as design contributers. > It's precisely because Owen understands the visibility of the > wallpaper that he went to great length to explain the nature of his > request. So it's unfair to say anyone's not sensitive to that, > because that seems to me to be the entire reason the request was made. > I'd hope we're not becoming a team or project that has no ability to > constructively address requests or find ways to promote great free > software. > Maybe we as the Design Team should vote publicly on the request then. > Check out Owen's request again to see if it helps clarify this. He > indicated this is a one-time branding opportunity to help GNOME 3 with > marketing their release, and specifically set out reasons for the > request. > How exactly is it that they need marketing? They will be the default in Fedora and the official future of the Gnome project. I can see how Unity needs branding and a marketing boost, but that's because they aren't the official upstream shell. Did people need to explicitely advertise Nautilus when Gnome 2 came out? > > I'm not trying to appease anyone, I'm simply saying why I personally > feel this could be a worthwhile one-time concession. Agree or > disagree, but it's not necessary to attach conspiracy theories. I > found out at the same time you did (well, later really, since I came > into the discussion late, not being at the meeting, for which I > apologize!). > Sorry, I really didn't want to make it sound like a conspiracy. It's just that they way Mo talked about this special request looked a bit odd in the IRC logs. Once again, I am sorry I couldn't be there and ask the questions in person at the time. > > And personally I think creating wallpaper is not the biggest > responsibility for the Design team. It may be one of the most widely > visible ones, but it's not the most important IMHO. I think the most > important responsibility of the team is handling the many requests for > design from the community that come up regularly, both connected to > releases and for completely ad-hoc tasks. Those requests help Fedora > contributors have amazing presence at shows, create cool displays, > attract people to the project, and so forth. Wallpaper is part of > that responsibility, traditionally, but I don't think it's the > overwhelming majority. OK, we definitely have a different view of the team then. Maybe it is because I haven't been on board that long. All I know is that people outside Fedora think that's what we are doing... May be a communication / PR issue then. Fab >
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