Community wallpaper contest for 18.04

[flocculant]

On 21/09/17 18:41, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
> On 21.09.2017 19:28, flocculant wrote:
>> On 21/09/17 13:03, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
>>> Hello people,
>>>
>>> while we are still in the middle of the development cycle for 17.10, 
>>> I'd like to start the discussion about the potential (although 
>>> likely) community wallpaper contest for 18.04.
>>>
>>> We've ran the contest twice now, and the last time we used the 
>>> WordPress plugin specifically created for this purpose. Does anybody 
>>> think we need to tweak the tool – either how submissions or voting 
>>> works? If needed, I can set up a test contest (for the team) to 
>>> re-evaluate things.
>>>
>>> That aside, the main thing I wanted to talk about are the policies 
>>> for the contest. Last time we use the following guidelines:
>>>     https://contest.xubuntu.org/help/terms/
>>>
>>> There are two main things I'd like to propose to change:
>>>
>>> First, I'd like to limit submissions to a certain number per person. 
>>> While I'd like to see the number of submissions go up, I would like 
>>> them to be from a bigger group of people. Additionally, this means 
>>> we'll make the submitters pick their best work instead of us having 
>>> to vote on it.
>>>
>>> Second, I would like to limit submissions to own work only. While 
>>> this means we are potentially excluding people from the contest, we 
>>> are still making the contest more about the community – not just a 
>>> community curated contest.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Pasi
>>>
>> On first reading - you want to increase the submissions by making the 
>> submissions from each person decrease and also by making them less 
>> easy to accomplish?
>>
>> Seems to me like a quick way to get nowhere fast.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Kev
>
> I said I would like more submissions, but not if it meant one or two 
> contributors sent over half of the total submission amount...
>
> I don't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was only team members 
> (me included) who submitted work from others (that was suitably 
> licensed, of course). If so, the other limitation would have no impact 
> at all for the non-team community.
>
> On 21.09.2017 20:12, Dave Pearson wrote:
>> I like the way we did it last time..
>>
>> I wouldn't limit the number of submissions by each person..
>>
>> thats a sure way of not getting enough..
>
> To comment on this particularly, I think we had enough submitters the 
> last time and theoretically, if we only considered, say, three from 
> each submitter, we still had enough material to vote on.
>
> We are also well ahead of the schedule we had the last time; if we 
> want, we could even run the contest from the beginning of the cycle 
> and all the way near the UI freeze, which would mean months of 
> submission time. (That said, I'm not sure making the submission window 
> longer necessarily means more or higher quality submissions.)
>
> Thanks for the feedback – I want to get this right/better this time, 
> so better start early...
>
> Cheers,
> Pasi
>
Bumping this so it's a bit fresher for the BB cycle on Friday :)