On 24/02/07, Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you folks are willing to give it another shot with a clean slate, clear charter, and well-defined goals as are being discussed right now, I would be willing to come back at this point and take a team lead position if you'd still have me. (However, it's up to you as it's your community; I have *plenty* of other things on my plate so I certainly won't be offended if not. :) )
+1, you did a great job when you were here.
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.
2) loosely coupled - different team members work in the different areas Paul suggested, and communicate/keep updated with each other on this list or by some other means. E.g., there may be some art team folks whose specialty is making banners/posters/etc for events so they work closely with marketing and ambassadors, while there may be some art team folks who are more interested in the website so they work closely with the infrastructure team members.
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.
= Making it Easier to Understand What's Going On and How to Contribute to the Art Team = == Short-Order Request Queue == I really like Paul's idea of having a short-order queue/list wiki page of requests that other groups within the Fedora Project have made of the art team. It would be a great place for newbies to see a list of short-term, quick projects so they can quickly get their feet wet and get involved.
Totally, a frequently-edited wiki page such as http://developer.mugshot.org/wiki/Activity_Ideas could work well if it is split up. If feedback is needed, a thread would be started; I like the icons John uses in his theme page to suggest there is a thread about it.
These requests could be broken down into some of the basic categories Paul suggested [3]: (Can anyone think of any other areas within Fedora they know of or may be involved in that may want to make short-term requests of an art team?)
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?)
== Long-Term Project List == These projects would all be treated more as subteams rather than short-order queues, where folks working on whichever long-term project would list their names so folks wanting to get involved would know who to contact. They should also link to the wiki pages where their development/process is taking place.
For longer-term project, wouldn't a wiki page of it's own as we currently have with Echo (and we know that a truly long-term) be sufficient? If we link the Contributors page with each project, the pages could have a unified section at the bottom describing it's people. ./Ben [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2006-April/msg00068.html -- ..// seawolf //.. Ben Arnold e-mail / msn / icq / yahoo iamseawolf (at) gmail (dot) com http://clik.to/seawolfsanctuary fedora core : artwork GnuPG Available - ask me! _______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
