On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 15:16 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > 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 Please keep in mind that Diana was just hired to replace Garrett, so she is joining the FC3 release rather late in the game. I think it is great that she has jumped in so fast and already started thinking about more community participation. I'm sure as she goes through a release or two she will learn to ask more specific questions. Tammy -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
