Apart from the title this email aims to take a no-holds-barred look at
who we are and how we are put together.
I have been looking at ways to give this team more structure and noticed
something we lack in concrete leadership or anyone with any authority to
enact change. Nobody with definitive word. We generally throw around
loose ideas, someone edits the wiki and it looks official. 'Till, the
next guy comes along. God. The wiki must have gon through some major
shuffle every release.
So I propose:
1. Clearing out the current LP art team and starting from zero. Closing
it and making it a moderated team.
The Launchpad team means and does nothing. I really don't see the
need for a open team. Karma? No. I want to give it meaning. Being on
this team will mean your a trusted member and you have demonstrated
some ability/aptitude worthy of meaningful contribution to the team.
Which is how a good many of the Ubuntu teams work. Weather it be
actual art, packaging, documentation or credited art/design
knowledge (you know what you're talking about basically). Acceptance
on to the team will be voted upon by the Art council.
This would also be the bug contact for any packaged efforts in the
repos.
2. The current mailing list will be a discussion list and the new list
(already waiting in the wings) be for LP team members only.
This would mostly be a name change. Everyone on the "ubuntu-art"
list would stay as-is the list would just rename to
"ubuntu-art-discuss". The new list would be "ubuntu-art-devel".
/Maybe/ the need to have "community" put in there somewhere. Up for
debate. And the latter list like I said would be for approved
members of the LP team.
3. Formation of a 5-person (or so) art council to be made up of
currently trusted members.
Pretty much self-explanatory. I would propose: (and this is just off
the top of my head. don't feel slighted if I don't list you)
* Kenneth Wimer - Our Canonical contact and generally smart dude.
* Thorsten Wilms - Great command of design theory and good
documentation skills.
* Jonathan Austin - Great artist. (if he's up to it)
(just a quick list. I'm sure there's more)
So this is what I feel is needed for us to really take control of the
team and give it focus. Right now, we're just too loose a bunch to
really be effective.
Discuss.
-Cory K.
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