[ubuntu-art] Gettin' our @$$3$ in gear. or, a team restructuring.

[Matthew Lye]

Its probably a good idea to have council created, if just to give direction
and create guidelines. The largest problem this team seems to have is a lack
of collective focus, everyone is attempting to develop something different
rather than looking at designs submitted and working together to develop the
aspects of each that are good into a cohesive theme. Currently insane
amounts of times are wasted on developing ideas that end up not being
included. I would avoid trying to give the task of managing the artwork
development to the council because it will likely be time consuming and many
of people I've seen suggested have limited time available.

In terms of making the team no longer open, again a good idea but have a
clear way to get accepted documented in the wiki, and note what sort of
contributions your after. Id also suggest to create focus groups for theme
development  (both code and art), backgrounds, and for the wiki maintenance
and make acceptance based on contributions to one or another group (likely
via a recommendation by a focus group lead).

Id also suggest you make a spot for people that contribute purely through
well thought out critique. Someone who can do that can be incredibly
valuable even if they cant create anything more that stick figures.

-Matthew Lye

You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision,
determination, and and endless supply of expendable labor.
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Andrew <a.starr.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Cory K. <coryisatm at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 1. Clearing out the current LP art team and starting from zero. Closing
> > it and making it a moderated team.
>
> If nothing else, this really should be done. The LP team is basically
> useless in its current state.
>
> According to the members page we now have:
>
> 152 active members
> 784 inactive members
>
> I'm not entirely sure what LP uses to designate active members, I
> imagine that it is simply whether or not some one has logged into LP
> recently. Either way, it's definitely not representative of the actual
> people doing work.
>
> Making the team moderated would make it much more useful. As it is
> now, it's just another badge on your profile page.
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> Agreed.
>
> I imagine art-discuss being much like the current list. People sharing
> things the are working on ect...
>
> The moderated list could focus more on decision making processes
> ect... It should also be set up (like ubuntu-devel) so that
> non-members may still subscribe. I think there might be some
> misconceptions that this would be a secret list of some sort.
>
> > 3. Formation of a 5-person (or so) art council to be made up of
> > currently trusted members.
>
> Agreed.
>
> What this team needs more than anything else are some defined goals
> and projects. Right now, it's mostly just people throwing things
> against a wall to see what sticks. The steps you propose would go a
> long way to help.
>
>  - Andrew
>
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