This is a great idea. One of the biggest factors in the success in free software projects is clear leadership. Design especially requires a cohesive vision and direction in order to be successful, so actually creating positions for this is essential.
Several people have noted that LibreOffice design has few volunteers, which ironically is exactly why creating these positions is so important. Design leadership attracts talent. These leads could put forward and enforce an overall vision for LibreOffice and make it easier for new contributors to get involved. If you look at the projects that produce good design, like GNOME and elementary, a common attribute is having people who are competent and opinionated about design who can put forward a singular vision that defines all of the work. KDE seems to be adopting a modified version of this approach with their visual design group, and the results look promising, except that their approach is more centered on community involvement, which I think is the direction LibreOffice needs to go. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Team-organization-tp4112893p4114058.html Sent from the Design mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
