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This is a proposal to create a "formal art team", as opposed to the informal art volunteer and participant. Membership in the formal art team would be granted in recognition of a substantial and sustained contribution to any aspect of the art in Ubuntu, and would automatically convey membership in the broader Ubuntu project. By way of background, I will describe the concept of "membership in Ubuntu". The project is open to members who make a "substantial and sustained" contribution to the project, in any form and in any field. That includes art, of course. Generally, membership is granted after someone comes to a community council meeting and describes what they have done for the project over the past couple of months. The community council has agreed to recognise broader structures and delegate the ability to recognise membership to those structures. So, for example, if you are accepted into the core dev team or MOTU now, you are automatically a member. The community council will do this where it believes there is a strong leadership or governance of the extended team or structure, so that the guidelines of membership are properly respected even where membership is granted through a specialist team. So what does this mean for the art team? It means that if we are able to create a "well governed team", which only accepts members after they have proven their ability and commitment, then the community council would delegate the ability to grant membership in Ubuntu to that team. The team would need to report to the CC every two weeks on new members so that we can keep a good sense of how the project is growing. What does it mean in practice? It would mean that the art-team in Launchpad would become a part of the ubuntumembers team. Members of the art team would automatically get to vote in CC resolutions put to all Ubuntu members, and confirmations of new appointments to the CC etc. We can't do this unless we can confidently say that people will get fair treatment, that the team will be run in the best spirit of Ubuntu with reliable reporting to the CC. Mark |
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