On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:17:40 -0500, jck <jensknutson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What's wrong with the default background being used in FC3-test3? What's wrong with asking community to be invovled? I think its a bit late to ask for submission for fc3 and be able to take full advantage of community interest, but I like the idea of Red Hat as the managing entity for Fedora asking for and encouraging community input. I would have liked to see more specific guidance than the annoucement here but its a start. In the FC4 future, I would hope that for any call for artwork submission from community will come earlier into the testing process and would be much more widely communicated than just the desktop list. I would also like to see it approached more as a competition with submission deadlines and some clear guidance as to theme and style. If I had managerial control, I'd would organize it as a competition with small group (even as small as one person) of experts who would choose a small number of finalist submissions that would all be acceptible as a background to include in Core. I would have the small expert group select one "winner" out of the finalist to be the default background for fc4, and then i would open up a public poll of the remaining finalist submissions to select a "people's choice" winning background to be included but not be the default background. I would then archive the remaining finalist submissions into an online gallery in the fedora project webspace. I would attempt to repeat the same sort of process with each core release. Swapping out a couple of backgrounds each release and archiving them in the online gallery location, to make room for the 2 new backgrounds. One judge's choice as the default, and one people's choice as an alternative. -jef -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
