On 12 March 2015 at 23:37, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > It was brought up on the private list that someone ought to clarify > how we plan to make decisions about design related stuff. > > Having a place (page) where we can collect design ideas, branding > ideas, and logo ideas is neat. It allows us to get the feedback from > the community. But we should not run this as a design by committee. > > Avoiding that is easy. The community selects a person or person(s) to > do the design. That person is then entrusted to do the stuff. No > voting necessary. And that person can collect feedback however they > want. > > If the person or person(s) decides on a design/brand/logo that the PMC > does not want to move forward with, the PMC can turn it down, like a > typical "client" situation. > > It's important to remember that we try to avoid voting wherever > possible. :) So if this is what we're doing, let's just do it. Let's > nominate the designers and let them run with it. > > Some analogies for the roles: > > - Designer or design team: agency producing the design work > - Community (people on mailing lists): focus groups providing feedback > (and nothing more than that. Opinions to be taken as feedback only) > - PMC: client, gives the thumbs up or thumbs down > > Make sense? :)
I like the idea. Thanks and +1 Cheers Andy -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
