I am totally enthusiastic about a plan like this, if this is what it takes to get Ubuntu looking more "sophisticated." Because in my personal opinion, there are some very "amateur" things about Ubuntu (although I love the distro) mainly that being the graphical end. What I would love to see is a lot higher standard on the "overall look," and "feel."
Just my 2 cents... Jent Kyle -- Freelancer Graphic Artist On Apr 19, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Cory K. wrote: > 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 -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
