On 6/14/06, Mark Shuttleworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a proposal to create a formal art team, as opposed to the
informal art volunteer and participant. Membership in the formal art team
would be granted in recognition of a substantial and sustained contribution
to any aspect of the art in Ubuntu, and would automatically convey
membership in the broader Ubuntu project.
By way of background, I will describe the concept of membership in
Ubuntu. The project is open to members who make a substantial and
sustained contribution to the project, in any form and in any field. That
includes art, of course. Generally, membership is granted after someone
comes to a community council meeting and describes what they have done for
the project over the past couple of months.
The community council has agreed to recognise broader structures and
delegate the ability to recognise membership to those structures. So, for
example, if you are accepted into the core dev team or MOTU now, you are
automatically a member. The community council will do this where it believes
there is a strong leadership or governance of the extended team or
structure, so that the guidelines of membership are properly respected even
where membership is granted through a specialist team.
So what does this mean for the art team?
It means that if we are able to create a well governed team, which only
accepts members after they have proven their ability and commitment, then
the community council would delegate the ability to grant membership in
Ubuntu to that team. The team would need to report to the CC every two weeks
on new members so that we can keep a good sense of how the project is
growing.
What does it mean in practice?
It would mean that the art-team in Launchpad would become a part of the
ubuntumembers team. Members of the art team would automatically get to vote
in CC resolutions put to all Ubuntu members, and confirmations of new
appointments to the CC etc. We can't do this unless we can confidently say
that people will get fair treatment, that the team will be run in the best
spirit of Ubuntu with reliable reporting to the CC.
Mark
Seems like a great idea.
Will we start 'blank slate' and build a membership over the months
leading up until Breezy, or will we take current active members asa
'base team'?
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