Re: The New and Improved Art Team

Ben Arnold wrote:
> On 24/02/07, Máirín Duffy <duffyredhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Do you really think having a centralized community
is the best way to
>> go?
> 
> I do, a project needs a central point to act as a base
for new members
> to start from and for currently active to keep track
of. It would
> certainly make me feel more welcome and more organised
if I were new
> to fedorArt.

Sure a central point should exist, it may be a page in the
wiki, it may 
be an aggregation of our blogs, it may be even a dedicate
wiki or a 
picture gallery.
But as I see, the work and the decision does not have to be
centralized: 
if a sub-team work on, say, Echo icons, is any need for this
team to get 
approvals for the leadership of the Art project for every
step? I think 
the leader of the sub-team and the users of the work (the
desktop team?) 
is enough to make a decision.

> As this Artwork has to cover a bit of ground and some
of the members
> (such as myself) have only a little bit of time in
their week to work
> on it, this would mean a couple of people as contacts
for a particular
> division and would be able to concentrate on each
other's work.

You know, for the time being we are not that many people.
Yes, is 
rewarding (at the surface) to assign titles to our names,
but as how we 
are now do you see a sub-team with more than 2-3 people in
it?

> Speak of the devil.
> 
> There has been an occaision [1] where outside requests
have come in
> ofr artists to contribute for an unrelated project:
> 
> * Outside Project Requests (kinda speaks for itself, if
anyone feels
> like a change, why not help these people in need?)

Because I think we should stay focused.
Of course, we can help external projects, but in my
experience (based on 
how I did the new logo for GNU Solfege http://www.solfege.org/)
a 
developer in need for new graphics go to a project working
with graphics 
(in my case was openclipart.org) and ask for help, one or
more people 
rely to him in private and then the development takes place
on the 
appropriate channels (the mailing list / wiki / version
control) of the 
external project.

-- 
nicu
-- 
nicu
Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.n
icubunu.ro/wallpapers/
Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org

my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro

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