Máirín Duffy 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. :) )
I for one could not think at anybody else able to lead the team.
I would suggest for start focus on short term goals so the team can
*see* some results and (re-)gain trust.
Anyway, here are some of my ideas on moving forward, let me know what
you think:
= Future Approach to Art Team Organization =
Do you really think having a centralized community is the best way to
go? If so, should it be:
1) tight-knit - all other Fedora groups come here and 'contract out' to
this group and work together on all types of projects,
OR,
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.
For what it's worth, in my professional career I have been part of both
types of teams and in my experience the latter type of environment has
been more productive & rewarding, producing better results. What do you
all think is a better approach?
I used to favor the first approach (centralized) but I am in the process
of changing my mind, it seems a loosely coupled team is better equipped
to survive.
Even a centralized team should be descentralized in sub-teams for each
activity area, so the result is again loosely coupled.
= Making it Easier to Understand What's Going On and How to Contribute
to the Art Team =
In terms of moving forward, improving, and growing - I recently read a
blog post from a Fedora community member [1]:
'I’ve looked at some of the mailing lists fedora art and fedora
marketing but haven’t really invested a lot of time into them mostly
because I don’t know what can or needs to be done.'
And we can, of course, communicate better, we have a lot of ways, let go
all of us in one of those:
- the Fedora Art group in Mugshot
- a new Fedora group on DeviantART.com
- a new Fedora group on flickr
Also, I encourage members of the team to blog and maybe we aggregate the
blogs of the team members in something like
planet.artcommunity.fedoraproject.org and push our latest work with the
power of aggregation and RSS.
== Short-Order Request Queue ==
If this is the scenario would-be contributors are running into, I think
we need to address it by improving this to attract more art team
members, as John alluded to [2]. 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. These requests could be
broken down into some of the basic categories Paul suggested [3]:
I have an idea for a short term task, will talk about it in a separate
thread to keep the talk focused.
== Long-Term Project List ==
In addition, for transparency it may also be wise to have a page listing
out more-involved, ongoing, longer-term projects; it would include all
the categories above as well as:
You listed a lot of good long term project here.
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.
Sure, sub-teams.
I think for each kind of project, be it long term or short term here is
need for initiative: anyone with some experience in the field (some, not
exhaustive experience) should step up, take the initiative and start the
subproject.
So for all members: read the list with possible projects, see if you
like something, if you know the basics about anything and start your own
sub-team.
--
nicu
Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/
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