On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 11:18 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: > On 02/15/2010 10:02 PM, Justin O'Brien wrote: > > > > I had an idea Brainstorming in #f-mktg. We were trying to come up with > > ways to extend our reach. Getting Free Software/Linux people is awesome > > but who else might be interested in Fedora? so I thought why don't we > > put on a Fedora Project artshow?!? > > > > > > Here is what I was invisioning... > > > > * we somehow procure a gallery > > We (Design Team) persuaded Infrastructure to give us a test instance of > some galley software and got Gallery2. It was cumbersome and not > integrated with the rest of the Fedora web presence, so it was very > little used and not advertised at all (it was a step-up from our > previous try to use the wiki for the same task). I believe the test > instance was removed in the mean time. To keep a community alive, I would recon we will need more than this. I would add the possibility of having micro-blogging functionanility attached to this gallery. Interaction will be a key feature in keeping the community alive and recruiting new people, besides keeping a high interest degree from those already involved. > > In the testing space there is also a gallery envisioned mostly for > Ambassadors use: http://publictest16.fedoraproject.org/plogger/ again, > with an unfriendly interface and very little use. > > It should be also mentioned the Albums section of fedoraforum.org: > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/album.php which is, no offense - posted my > own share of crap there, a bit of a mess. > > There are also Fedora groups on sites like deviantART and flickr, but > those are not to be used for our core functionality, being closed > platforms (so out of the 4 foundations). > > > * Fedorians bring in some art they had done > > * we invite people from the art world to see it > > * try to get written up in art mags (do they exist, if so which ones) > > We first have to gather the creation and grow confident they are good > enough. > > > * thought this would be an awesome way to show that art and > > freesoftware are great partners > > * thought this would be a way that people could parade out that one > > desgin they had for $fedoraVersionInThePast that just didnt make it > > I was thinking about this also as a way to give users stuff they may > like to use - wallpapers and such. > > > * would be a way to see the creative side of people we didnt know had > > one (how many coders/marketing people/legal etc are also painters, > > sculpters, etc) > > Many people do not realize this: is not *that* hard to create art, you > just have to have a story to tell, the rest is only tools and we have > the tools. I do agree, but tools aren't just enough. There should also be present a strong human bound and at some point an environment of cumplicity amongst our users. Being a student myself, I've been developing works for school that aim real life situations. I would eventually point to a campaign that aims to target art students through schools. About deviantart, they provide sales services (and I do "gear up" my desktop on DeviantART). We shouldn't probably take such approach, but the functionality (non-commercial) should be something that we can take as a good example. If you look at http://art.gnome.org, it's been dead for quite some time, and it's way smaller than Deviant Art. So there's a good example that just a small gallery isn't enough. We need more... As an artist, what would you consider important to have to build a community and keep them interested everyday ? Nelson > > -- > nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/
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