Choosing Art for Ubuntu Studio

[Kaj Ailomaa]

= Creating Art for Ubuntu Studio =

Lately, we haven't been very active on creating art for Ubuntu Studio. Not  
sure exactly how this has been managed back in the day when Ubuntu Studio  
had its own gtk2 theme and so forth.
There are three ways I see how we can go about it in the future, and this  
depends on what we want to achieve with the artwork.

Out of these three suggestions, I'd personally like to go with having a  
art team work for us, but in order to make that happen, we need to find  
some artists who are willing to work with us on this.

== 1. Art Team Develops the Artwork ==

With this solution, we have artists developing the artwork during the  
development cycle, or over several cycles.  Using this method, it would be  
logical to strive for a unified theme, where all of the components - XFCE  
theme, icon theme, wallpaper, and the look on our website and social sites  
are all coherent, at least to some degree. It would mean there is some  
kind of a schedule, with planned goals. It would also mean that we need to  
get artists to join our team.

== 2. Submissions selected by Ubuntu Studio devs ==

We set dates, call for submissions, and then the team decides what goes  
onto the ISO. It would be hard to have a unified theme experience this  
way, but the team is still able to select items that they think go well  
together, and what works with Ubuntu Studio, generally.

== 3. Community decides ==

We set dates, call for submissions, and have polls. The Ubuntu Studio team  
could either let the users decide completely, or at a minimum decide what  
submissions will be up for a vote.


= Choosing wallpaper for this cycle =

As for the current problem on selecting the wallpaper - we haven't really  
discussed how to go about it. And we need to do that pretty fast. User  
interface freeze is March 21st  
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/ReleaseSchedule.

The situation right now is that we have one of my wallpapers as default on  
the ISO (just got it in yesterday)  
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Artwork/RockTheme, but it's not a  
final decision in any way.

We have gotten a few suggestions so far. It's not much, but enough to put  
together some kind of vote. So, should we let our users decide (if we do  
that, I'd rather we do it on social channels and mail lists alike, and use  
some kind of poll service), or do we let the devs decide (which would be  
faster)?

I would like to include the best of what has been suggested so far in any  
case, no matter which one is chosen as default.