Good day, This email entails the minutes for the meeting the art team has just had on Saturday June 17, 16:00 UTC, in #ubuntu-meeting. Whether you attended or not it would be nifty if it could be reviewed nonetheless so that I can get feedback whether I've missed something crucial or have made mistakes.
Attendance: msikma is Michiel Sikma klepas is Pascal Klein sabdfl is Mark Shuttleworth andreasn is Andreas Nilsson The meeting has allowed us to make some important decisions regarding how we will use the technologies available to use as well as the leadership issues. We have: # LEADERSHIP An overall art team leadership with chairman, that would have 3-5 people on it, responsible for" - recognising contributions and thus - membership of "formal art team" [members] and membersip in Ubuntu, settling overal art team disputes, (which could still be referred up to the CC) - reporting to the CC on activity, membership changes, etc. - oversee the default theme (Human) Regarding positions there would be an "artist in chief", the 'AIC': - this position would alternatve per each release NOTE: Mark Shuttleworth has stated that the artist in chief will not selected not elected. He has proposed a 'resume/portfolio' approach to allow interested applicants to put themselves forward along with their visions. Mark will announce on the mailing list what the position entails and otherwise describe the tasks and responsibilities. There would also be a few positions for art leaders, which is essentially one tier below the AIC. These will be the chief people working on the various themes (Tangerine, Outdoors, Tango, etc.). We have agreed that the chief people working on these themes will put themselves forward between now and the next meeting over the mailing list so that they can be identified. NOTE: Please, if you are the chief person working on one of the themes (Outdoors, Tangerine, Tango), please email the mailing list with an adequate subject line stating so. # THE WIKI We have agreed that the wiki needs to be fixed up if we are to use it productively. Brian Burger (Madpilot), Étienne Bersac (bersace) and Pascal Klein (klepas) will be restructuring the Art pages on the wiki. We will: - simplify the content, cutting down on the number of pages - keep the wiki up and include meeting minutes NOTE: We would like to request that no one makes large changes or additions to the wiki art wiki pages during this time such that we can figure out what we have, what we need and then begin to restructure the content. Finally, we request that once the wiki is restructured that no one makes large changes that affect the team without first discussing it with the rest of the team. Thank you. We have agree to set a timeline for this. We are aiming at three weeks tops and will make an announcement via the mailing list when the restructuring is complete. Cheers. # AUC Although art.ubuntu.com has a variety of issues in regard to handling and usage in regards to the technology (the CMS) we have prioritised and agreed that art.ubuntu.com is not the most important problem at this point in time. We want to fix the wiki first identify leadership and so forth first. Therefore there has been a notice put on art.ubuntu.com (thanks Luka Čehovin - lukacu): > The Ubuntu Art Team has decided to focus on the restructuring of the > wiki, Launchpad and it's organisation. This site, art.ubuntu.com is > chiefly for artwork from the community that does not go into mainstream > (on the CD) or into the universe repository. Thus, at this state fixing > up the problems on art.ubuntu.com is not as important as fixing the > wiki for example. > > We apologise for the inconvenience and emplore you to still post any artwork > you may wish to share on the following community websites: > > * art.gnome.org > * gnome-look.org > * kde-look.org > * xfce-look.org > > (and any other large ones i am missing... if there are any...) > > Thank you, > The Ubuntu Art Team Drom (sorry, unsure of the real name) in #ubuntu-artwork has kindly asked for us to note that art.gnome.org does not accept distribution specific artwork. Thus we need to note that in the announcement. I will make sure a change is made. # LAUNCHPAD We generally agree that Launchpad is great for package and bug management, specs and general organisation for the team. We will make use of it. Those who have admin rights, and hopefully that will include the art leaders as they will be in charge of probably packaging their themed packages will be shown/ can read up how to use Launchpad to for example track bugs filed against their packages and so forth. # MAILING LIST We have agreed that the Mailing List (ML) should be used as our primary method of general communication, through announcements and simple, small messages with, if possible references to the wiki. We do not want too much traffic over the list as we currently do as it is difficult to follow. Adding to this: any important announcements should be listed in the subject, as is the case with this email. :) # IRC We have agreed that #ubuntu-artwork is for helping each other out, collaboration between people working on similar/the same thing and general chatting. #ubuntu-meeting is for our meetings. Please do not make important decisions that affect the entire team in IRC unless of course it is in a meeting. We encourage a call for a meeting once a month though this might be specific to just one part of the team working on something like a specific theme. For example, one month all those working on Tangerine could meet and discuss progress, or one month all those working on Human could meet to discuss the progress of work that will go into mainstream. However, note that all major decisions that effect the entire team which are best handled via vote will be done so through Launchpad. # GOALS Our primary goal is, although extremely simple and quite obvious, something we have not managed to do: get our artwork, created collaboratively into mainstream! We can achieve this if we examine the existing artwork and their styles, locate areas that are lacking in consistent artwork, or artwork in general, prioritise and then collaboratively work to create some rocking artwork for Edgy and beyond! # ENDNOTE Just to make sure everyone understands, the above in summmary means: * no major changes/additions to the wiki unless by madpilot, klepas or bersace. * please not too much traffic over the mailing list * an email from Mark is pending concerning the artist in chief * please, if you are the chief person working on one of the themed packages, mail the mailing list informing others of it so that it can also be added to the wiki * please lay off creating and displaying too much work via the mailing list at this point in time. We want to prioritise and identify what really needs to be done; no point wasting time and effort. Time will come for it. * feel free to chat and show off work in #ubuntu-artwork :) * have fun! That is it; thank you very much. Sincerely, Pascal Klein
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