On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 09:18 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > On 06/16/2009 09:04 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: > > > > My idea based on our previous approaches: > > 1. sketching the base concepts (ideas accompanied by simple pictures) > > We should decide here about the way to go: like F11, trying to get a > concept/metaphor and everybody working toward it or like F8-F10 with an > open "competition". > I think neither of those worked very well... I wonder if we could take an approach instead of creating the base image from scratch this time, to go out and search the best of openly-licensed content and try to provide a thematic selection? That way there is much less pressure on us I think.... because the creative process is not always so consistent in terms of time/effort involved, if we make a selection of things already available perhaps we can deliver on a more predictable schedule? (and get some publicity/exposure to artists who aren't already on the team but already 'get' open licensing - maybe it will help us convince them to join our effort :) ) The theme that unifies the selected images could be derived from the codename. It would be great to have a whole cohesive set of images for users to choose from too instead of just one like we've always done. This would still involve some effort from us too, to convert/crop photos to the ratios we support and whatnot. We could have a competitive element to determine which one of the selections is the wallpaper by default? It might be cool too, to work up a list of personas, each of which we should try to aim a wallpaper at. For example, the Windows XP base set of wallpapers has the flower and the pink wallpaper for girls... > > 2. get initial approach wallpapers into Alpha (concept should be decided > > upon, wallpaper should look good, but needs not to be polished). This is > > where we need to get feedback (most of the design team people blogging > > about it?) and reflect on it. If more concepts are still being discussed > > over, have them all in the release (automatically change the different > > concepts so that we users/testers wouldn't need to change them > > manually?) > > According to the schedule, we have Alpha freeze on 2009-08-04 and Alpha > release on 2009-08-18. That is NOT a lot of time :( When in the schedule is the final codename selection to be made by? > > Maybe we should set a date before the Alpha freeze (a number of weeks > after the release name announcement) as a deadline for *concept* > submission, so we have the time for a selection before the freeze? > > > 3. have most of the artwork covered by Beta (based on the alpha feedback > > we'll build a theme upon a single selected concept; after this milestone > > we must not change the concept so that we'll have enough time to fill > > the holes and do final polishes) > > +1 +1 > > > 4. polish for RCs and Final so that the release artwork will be awesome > > and breath taking ;-) > > +1 +1 ~m _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
