Official Fedora CD/DVD Art?

[Patrick W. Barnes]

On Sunday 09 April 2006 17:26, Máirín Duffy <duffy at redhat.com> wrote:
> Patrick W. Barnes wrote:
> > The CDArt page contains community submissions.  They have not been deemed
> > official by anyone.  There are actually quite a few different ideas
> > floating around that have been created due to the "official" artwork not
> > being available.  I think a goal of the Artwork team should be the
> > collection of the different ideas and nomination of a select few to be
> > the official piece. Those nominees could then be opened for review and
> > voted upon.
>
>  From an earlier thread about this on fedora-art-list:
>
> 'The Distribution page of the wiki says "There is no standard regarding the
> preparation of media or packaging." '
>
> Can we actually have 'official' CD art then? Or just 'official'
> suggestions??

Our options are open.  Our 'official' selection would most likely be a 
suggestion.  As long as we label one selection as 'official', most vendors 
and individual distributors will use that selection, and the standardization 
will help to give the appearance of a coherent community.  Those who cannot 
use the official artwork would still be able to use simpler labelling.  Not 
everyone will be able to print full-color CD labels, so I don't want to 
prevent them from producing media.

>
> Also, I recommend not having a open vote.... I've been burned by this in
> the past - it's a pain to control for cheating (which unfortunately
> happens), and in the end, 'design by open committee' tends to be a lot
> lower quality than 'design by a knowledgable few'

We can discuss how wide we want to open the process.  We will need to have a 
reasonable scope to cover all interests.  In addition to the Artwork team, we 
should at least include the Distribution team and a small selection from the 
Marketing team.  Having the Artwork team select the nominees will make the 
vote a lot less painful, but closing the vote to just the Artwork team may 
leave us with a selection that nobody wants to use.

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