On 26-okt-2006, at 4:35, Trae McCombs wrote: > Hello everyone, Hi Trae!
> I've signed up to the mailing list, and am interested in helping. > I can probably put in about 5hrs a week right now, maybe more later > on things. If someone is the current Project Manager (Troy?) for > Ubuntu-Art, I'm open for direction on what to do. Feel free to > give me a small task and I'll do my best to get it completed. The most likely lad to fit into the title of "Ubuntu-Art Project Manager" would be me I think. For Edgy, I've been the so-called "Artist in Chief" and I took the artwork team through the cycle to go from rough ideas to polished artwork. As I have just added the artwork team as a bug contact to all artwork related packages (thanks Daniel) we now have a fairly complete list of what bugs we can solve at the moment: https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-art/+assignedbugs Maybe you can take a peek at that list and see if there is anything that fits into your areas of expertise? Besides simply fixing bugs, it would also be good to have a discussion on ideas for Feisty, these ideas can range anywhere from artwork process descriptions to identifying new areas where we can apply new artwork for a new release. > I realize we are at the dawn of Edgy's release and Fawn is a ways > away, but I figured now is the time to get involved to help things > out for the next release and future releases. Indeed. You have come at the best time we can imagine: still some time left before a new release so we can actually take into account new ideas and suggestions. > Here's a mockup of a website theme I've done. It should give you a > taste of my idea of style. I've not yet had a chance to actually > implement it as a web design: > > http://occy.net/tmp/themes.net-FINAL-3.png > > I've been doing a lot of client work for the past 2 years and > haven't had much time to design anything I liked. Clients, as a > lot of you know, want what they want. I'm probably going to build > up my themes.net site as a Drupal Theme contracting site for me > personally to use. [Small time stuff, but great domain, I might as > well use it ;) ] This kind of experience is valuable, I hope you'll enjoy your stay here. > At any rate, I'd love to play a bigger role in things as I get > time. My ultimate ambition would be to actually be the Art > Director for Ubuntu, or the person who has the ultimate vision for > the Desktop. Even if that doesn't happen, I'd like to see Ubuntu > succeed. Whoever has been handling things recently has done a > great job from what I've seen with Beta and the RC's. So if I > don't get the "top dog" job, at least I'll know Ubuntu is in great > hands ;) I simply want to be a part of the magic. Thanks. I'm pretty sure you'll fit right in and since the Artist in Chief isn't a fixed person or role, it's not that hard to imagine it being you in the future. > My biggest thing is, There needs to be a single person with a > vision for where Ubuntu goes. Design by committee doesn't work. > Whoever is driving the boat, should never compromise on his or her > ideas and goals. And we, as a supporting group should be the > people to help make that vision come to life. Given the history of artwork Edgy, I think that's about as spot on as it can get. > Consider this email as me tossing my hat into the ring to either be > in a Leadership role, or a Supportive role. Either way, I want > Ubuntu to succeed! Thanks for joining us, you're welcome on the team! With kind regards, Frank Schoep -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
