Re: [ubuntu-art] bringing good things to life
2007/1/4, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK, I've been a part of the art-team since the very beginning. We started > out by being a bunch of people who liked art and wanted to help the Ubuntu > community in some way... some by contributing web graphics (powered by > ubuntu, etc), some by creating wall papers, others by creating themes, and > yet others by simply giving feedback and encouragement. > > Then, we had a drive to make the art-team productive... instead of just > being a community of artists and enthusiasts we became driven to produce > something. Make specs, complete specs, etc. That's not bad, but its starting > to feel like the team is burned out and it appears that activity has > plummeted. > > While we struggle to regain our identity and get back on track to produce > something, lets distract ourselves a bit and return to our roots. Let's just > do art for fun again for a while. > > Here's my suggestion. But first, some people know that I have a > canonical.com email address... I am not using that address because I am > speaking as a fellow art-team member. This is just my own personal > hair-brained idea, not that of my employer. > > Many people participate and contribute to the Ubuntu community by creating > packages that get into Universe. Now, while it's really exciting to have > packages in main, it's still cool to be in Universe and a lot of people use > it. > > My suggestion is that we create a package called art-team-edgy (or > art-team-feisty) and elect an "artist in chief" (aic) for a release. The > team, lead by the aic, will choose a palette and a few guidelines and then > engage the community to create a desktop artwork package that meets the > guidelines. To complement the package we would also have > art-team-edgy-calendar (or whatever) that would have a new background > monthly until the next release and then continuing on as long as that > release's aic gets contributions. > > I'm not suggesting a coup, I'm just suggesting something to make > contributing art fun. Maybe our process will get good enough so that one day > we could get art-team-* into main, but again, by not making that the > immediate goal it gives us a lot of freedom. It also gives a lot of artists > the opportunity to contribute, since new backgrounds will be out monthly. > > The aic would be elected by the team and would be the person to make the > final decision for art during that release. The team would vote and cast > opinions, but it would be the tabdfr (team appointed benevolent dictator for > release) who gets to take the votes into consideration and make the final > call - note that this is different than a democracy, the only democratic > part is who the aic is. This is just a suggestion, I'll leave it to the team > to decide how the role should work if we decide to do this, but my $0.02 > worth is that without a leader to make a final, potentially difficult > decision, some important decisions will get lost in the committees. > > So, Feisty releases in a few months. We know practically nothing about what > to expect for that release, but that's OK. We know it will use gnome 2.18 > and soon we'll know if it will have a compositing window manager. If we're > not aiming for main, we can do whatever we want... polka dots, stripes, > flames, kittens, whatever. We can choose our palette, our icon theme > (although it makes sense to go with the flow of course), everything! > > OK, I've been thinking about this for a while, and I even mentioned the > calendar idea a couple months ago... I saw the recent bug report (#77289) > and this forum thread recently > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=326420 and decided > to get my it in gear and actually do something (send this e-mail). > > How about some people +1 this if they like the idea, ensuring to note if > they feel competent enough to contribute a monthly background. We'd also > need a person willing to be the scape goat and be the first aic... +1 for a reboot :-) I say - let open the floodgates once again. Let's have a storm of what ever people create, mockups, screenies, wallies, themes, logins, splashes (just like the good old warty/hoary days). Find some stuff we can agree on looks cool, and then work in that direction. If I know in good time what my deadline will be and what general theme and guideline to follow, I could contribute a calender wallpaper. Cheers, Mikkel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] bringing good things to life
On 1/4/07, Nathan Eckenrode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 January 2007 22:32, Matthew Nuzum wrote: > > > How about some people +1 this if they like the idea, ensuring to note if > > they feel competent enough to contribute a monthly background. We'd also > > need a person willing to be the scape goat and be the first aic... > > +1 idea, with the caveat that I prefer KDE. +1 idea. I've not contributed anything to the art team yet, but would like to and this sounds like a way into creating artwork for the project. (For someone who has never contributed to OSS before) (ditto on the KDE) James -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] bringing good things to life
On 1/4/07, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about some people +1 this if they like the idea, ensuring to note if > they feel competent enough to contribute a monthly background. We'd also > need a person willing to be the scape goat and be the first aic... > -- > Matthew Nuzum +1 As long as people are clear what we are working towards (universe) then it's great - I wouldn't like to see so many people feeling like they had wasted so much effort as for the last release I'd love to 'rejuvenate' Blubuntu for Feisty as well as contributing to the main community theme. I don't have nearly as much time as I did for Edgy, but I'd love to play a role. Who -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] bringing good things to life
Thanks Matthew! +1 It might not be evident from the recent past but anyone who's been around this group for a while knows that we really have all the makings for a greatness. I think we're going to have to drop whatever happened in the past and start back on a similar path with somewhat altered expectations. As Matthew mentioned, it's different but still worthwhile. Chuck > > How about some people +1 this if they like the idea, ensuring to note > if they feel competent enough to contribute a monthly background. We'd > also need a person willing to be the scape goat and be the first > aic... > -- > Matthew Nuzum > www.bearfruit.org > newz2000 on freenode -- Chuck Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] bringing good things to life
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 22:32, Matthew Nuzum wrote: > How about some people +1 this if they like the idea, ensuring to note if > they feel competent enough to contribute a monthly background. We'd also > need a person willing to be the scape goat and be the first aic... +1 idea, with the caveat that I prefer KDE. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] bringing good things to life
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Nuzum wrote: > How about some people +1 this if they like the idea, ensuring to note if > they feel competent enough to contribute a monthly background. We'd also > need a person willing to be the scape goat and be the first aic... +1 brilliant idea really. So simple it is almost a no brainer. Let's see how the rest of the folks feel. Sincerely, TJS -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFnH8Tar0EasPEHjQRAm/vAJ0dCGfrLSHz+KhrkH6v0kMImhFvSgCg13N9 XVluTPR7zoNAP88S60jUWF0= =wdfl -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] bringing good things to life
OK, I've been a part of the art-team since the very beginning. We started out by being a bunch of people who liked art and wanted to help the Ubuntu community in some way... some by contributing web graphics (powered by ubuntu, etc), some by creating wall papers, others by creating themes, and yet others by simply giving feedback and encouragement. Then, we had a drive to make the art-team productive... instead of just being a community of artists and enthusiasts we became driven to produce something. Make specs, complete specs, etc. That's not bad, but its starting to feel like the team is burned out and it appears that activity has plummeted. While we struggle to regain our identity and get back on track to produce something, lets distract ourselves a bit and return to our roots. Let's just do art for fun again for a while. Here's my suggestion. But first, some people know that I have a canonical.com email address... I am not using that address because I am speaking as a fellow art-team member. This is just my own personal hair-brained idea, not that of my employer. Many people participate and contribute to the Ubuntu community by creating packages that get into Universe. Now, while it's really exciting to have packages in main, it's still cool to be in Universe and a lot of people use it. My suggestion is that we create a package called art-team-edgy (or art-team-feisty) and elect an "artist in chief" (aic) for a release. The team, lead by the aic, will choose a palette and a few guidelines and then engage the community to create a desktop artwork package that meets the guidelines. To complement the package we would also have art-team-edgy-calendar (or whatever) that would have a new background monthly until the next release and then continuing on as long as that release's aic gets contributions. I'm not suggesting a coup, I'm just suggesting something to make contributing art fun. Maybe our process will get good enough so that one day we could get art-team-* into main, but again, by not making that the immediate goal it gives us a lot of freedom. It also gives a lot of artists the opportunity to contribute, since new backgrounds will be out monthly. The aic would be elected by the team and would be the person to make the final decision for art during that release. The team would vote and cast opinions, but it would be the tabdfr (team appointed benevolent dictator for release) who gets to take the votes into consideration and make the final call - note that this is different than a democracy, the only democratic part is who the aic is. This is just a suggestion, I'll leave it to the team to decide how the role should work if we decide to do this, but my $0.02 worth is that without a leader to make a final, potentially difficult decision, some important decisions will get lost in the committees. So, Feisty releases in a few months. We know practically nothing about what to expect for that release, but that's OK. We know it will use gnome 2.18and soon we'll know if it will have a compositing window manager. If we're not aiming for main, we can do whatever we want... polka dots, stripes, flames, kittens, whatever. We can choose our palette, our icon theme (although it makes sense to go with the flow of course), everything! OK, I've been thinking about this for a while, and I even mentioned the calendar idea a couple months ago... I saw the recent bug report (#77289) and this forum thread recently http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=326420 and decided to get my it in gear and actually do something (send this e-mail). How about some people +1 this if they like the idea, ensuring to note if they feel competent enough to contribute a monthly background. We'd also need a person willing to be the scape goat and be the first aic... -- Matthew Nuzum www.bearfruit.org newz2000 on freenode -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
