On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:52:03PM +0100, David Neary wrote: > Hi Carol, > > Carol Spears wrote: > > "make a decision". was their any discussion here of the panel needing > > the approval of these "artists"? the panel was put together to make a > > recommendation to the developers. you need additional handholding? was > > anyone interested in being on this panel who can make a decision on > > their own? > > I appreciate that you would like to see a winner quickly. And I > know that you think that such a decision should be easy to make. > If there were one person choosing the winner, it would have been > done last Monday. > > However, the panel are conscious of a responsibility they have - > they are picking the splash screen that will be on the GIMP for > at least 6 months, and perhaps as long as 3 years (hopefully not, > but that's how long tigert's splash was on a stable GIMP). > > If the panellists want to ask for the opinion of outside people, > or give weight to mukund's page, so be it. When their decision is > made, it will be final. > a final recommendation. just spit it out. ask adam. adam is an artist and has been involved with gimp since before you, me, tigert and jimmac -- i dunno about drc. if they did not want to work as a group, for what reason was it formed? if they were afraid of peoples opinion of their opinion, why did they want to be on the panel. this is crap. this is pathetic like this stupid election we just had here in the states. is the recommendation from this panel to be have tigert "i approve this" to make it worth something? is there anyone on the panel whose opinion does not count? carol
