Ubuntu community meeting on artwork: Monday 18 October, 1400 UTC on #ubuntu

[Mark Shuttleworth]

The discussion on this list, and in the web forums and IRC channel 
regarding the artwork in the 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Release Candidate has 
been vigorous and largely well-informed. I'd like to thank everybody 
who's posted their views. There have been contributions from a wide 
variety of opinions, and from both the developers of Ubuntu and end users.

Having read the mails and web discussions  (all of them) I think it's 
worth calling for a community meeting on IRC to discuss this further and 
reach a decision. I do love the expression "this is my decision and I 
won't hesitate to take the wrong one". In this case it might even be 
true, so if this is an important issue for you please try to participate:

  #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net (thanks to the good people at Freenode)
  14:00 UTC

I will put together a summary on the wiki of the arguments I've observed 
thus far, so we can avoid a rehash of old ground.

By all means continue the debate and discussion in these lists/forums 
till the decision is taken. I will try to keep up with everything that 
is said here, and I expect the developers will continue to listen and 
contribute too. We've not quite heard from everybody yet on the subject 
but I suspect we are getting to the end of the novel arguments.

Cheers,
Mark