Hi, This mail was sitting in my drafts for a couple of weeks, since the people i mentioned this about kept saying it is not worth the effort! But Saleel's mail [1] gives me hope! :) Initial draft of this mail would have probably ended-up being a tl;dr ! So I'll try to keep it short.
Recently, this mailing list has had almost no useful activity. And we dint even realize it was UIF to get community themes updated. To me, these are signs of this artwork list dying and our lack of organization! From: <http://www.ubuntu.com/community> Contribute > Artwork : "Put your creativity to work by improving the look and feel of Ubuntu. Help design themes, graphics or backgrounds for the next release." What has this team achieved among those goals for Maverick? What are we doing? If it weren't for the half yearly calls for countdown banners, this list could even be considered dead! - Members often announced and we'd welcome them and they disappeared! Since they do not know what they can do. - The list was once active when Breathe icon set was developed and when Cory got busy with life , that died too. - The last piece of activity from the Canonical design team[apart from banners] was about the boot-splash for Ubuntu 9.10!! - Mark announces UbuntuMovies on ayatana mailing list and not here! - Design blog announces new theme changes and feedback is requested in the comments and not here. When asked why announcements about the new theme and discussions are not done here , the polite reply was "discussions there are of low quality". Yes , i would consider this a very polite response! When a member announces a video for the 10sec boot, we had responses about our boot taking longer than 10secs! Is that response even related to this list? When the "participation" is only of such caliber , people tend to drift elsewhere! - Gnome-themes-ubuntu [dust,dust sand, new wave] were last updated only for Lucid - Community-themes package seems to have only one lone ranger! ;) - thorwil has unsubscribed from the wiki pages too , and i can only assume the wiki is now in disarray. ****** Now, how do we move forward? ****** Do we need this team or mailing list? Does Ubuntu need a community artwork team? Can we get more organized? Can this team have a purpose? Is there a considerable number of members interested in doing artwork?[note: no one is dutybound to do artwork , but atleast is anyone willing to work on artwork at some point?] I'v been talking to a few people around and I'v setup an etherpad with what we can do[ and try to do], where we can help and what we need to organize: <http://openetherpad.org/UbuntuArtwork> Do add your ideas too! Can we brainstorm and move forward? Or if there is no purpose to this mailing list or team, should we dissolve this team/list? I send this mail now, since i fear everyone is loosing interest in this team/list! Speak up now! Or even I'll give up..! ;-) -- Cheers, Vish [1] <https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg03715.html> -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art