Thats alot of ideas :P. >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.
Hang on a second... Have you thought about how tricky this would be to moderate? The candidates you selected were great choices, but nonetheless this would be tricky. For the bug control team this works fine, B Murray just asks you for some examples of bug triaging. With art, i'm not exactly a great artist, but I still help out with the team, and I can code various types of theme. What will the guidelines be for entry? Because you can get absolutely superb wiki documentors who haven't even heard of a clone brush, are they not allowed in the group? I can help out with artwork stuff and do GDM themes etc, but i'm no artist... And I want to join :(. I'm not saying its impossible, but choosing who joins - and who doesn't could be complicated and tricky... Ben ________________________________ From: Cory K. <[email protected]> To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, 19 April, 2009 17:52:47 Subject: [ubuntu-art] Gettin' our @$$3$ in gear. or, a team restructuring. 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. -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu..com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
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