[ubuntu-art] Open Week, sabdfl on artwork

[John Baer]

On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 00:05 +0100, Ryan Prior wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:05:39 -0500
> From: Ryan Prior <ryanprior at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Open Week, sabdfl on artwork
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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ at freenet.de>
> wrote:
> > sabdfl: Milos_SD: it has taken a long, long time to pull together a
> > design team
> > i had hoped to have that team in place six months ago, but it's
> still
> > forming
> > i think we will make good progress in the next cycle
> > you can already see a few things that have borne fruit from that
> team
> > notifications, time zone selector in installer, etc
> > but it's fragmentary
> > i'm pretty darn confident we'll have a new look for 10.04
> > but i think only pieces of that will emerge for 9.10
> 
> 
> Listen, they've been promising a "new look" since Intrepid at least,
> and in the meantime individuals working in their spare time have come
> up with numerous "new looks", and iterated them, and created yet more
> "new looks" based on prior experiences. If in two+ years (!!)
> Canonical cannot put together a "new look" for Ubuntu, then they
> should either admit that their art direction has been incompetent and
> tell us exactly what they have done to change that, or STFU and stop
> promising a new look.
> 
> Ryan

Wow, I can see how frustrating this is but we need to remain transparent
to the workings of Canonical and continue to grow the Team, create high
quality submissions, and add value.

Based on the conversations of late I would say we are on the right path.

Cheers!