[ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase History - was Re: Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

[Vishnoo]

On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 09:48 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote:
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 19:52 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote:

>         Exactly for this reason the submissions should be in the pool,
>         where the
>         jury will see them in any case.




> Not to mince my words here, but the jury is a bunch of philandering
> photographers, and not likely to select any illustration wallpapers.



OK. Everyone kindly calm down.
It is very, very highly disturbing that one person's over-eagerness and
inability to even try to listen to what others are saying, ends up being
the cause of so much confusion and disruption in a team.

As the *only* /community/ member who attended, in-person, /both/ the
free culture showcase sessions(during UDS-M and UDS-N), lead by the
design team, let me try to clear a few things up.

Until Lucid, Free culture showcase was run by the Community-Team. (not
Canonical design team or Ubuntu Artwork team). Till Lucid, it was only
about the content in the Examples folder. If anyone remembers those,
you'd realize it had nothing to do with wallpapers

Noting the success of the wallpaper collection contest the Design team
had done, Community team decided to hand-over this Free Culture task to
the Design team.

So for maverick, the Free Culture Showcase was open for several other
tasks, including illustrative wallpapers to be submitted on
*deviantart* , as listed here :
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase>

The judges for the illustrative wallpapers were /not/ meant to be the
same from the flickr photo pool. Each section,
illustrative/photographic/sound/video , was to have relevant judges.

However, members from the Design team who were incharge of certain tasks
related to illustrative wallpapers switched jobs from Canonical and
eventually their tasks fell in no-man's land. 

Do try to remember that the illustrative wallpaper was first tried for
*only* in the Maverick cycle and it's absence in Maverick is not because
of the judges from flickr not choosing the illustrations.
It was only due to tasks being lost in the process.

For Natty again, we have the same Free Culture task running:
<<https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/multimedia-design-n-freeculture-showcase>>
We did discuss who should be the judges and Do note, there is a task for
Ivanka " Organise judging by professionals "
If there is a confusion regarding the judges, someone just start a new
thread regarding that and hopefully we'd have Ivanka replying there.

If anyone has any questions just ask them. 
Kindly do not speculate and confuse everyone!

-- 
Cheers,
Vish