The New and Improved Art Team

[Ben Arnold]

On 24/02/07, Máirín Duffy <duffy at redhat.com> wrote:

> If you folks are willing to give it another shot with a clean slate,
> clear charter, and well-defined goals as are being discussed right now,
> I would be willing to come back at this point and take a team lead
> position if you'd still have me. (However, it's up to you as it's your
> community; I have *plenty* of other things on my plate so I certainly
> won't be offended if not. :) )

+1, you did a great job when you were here.

> Do you really think having a centralized community is the best way to
> go?

I do, a project needs a central point to act as a base for new members
to start from and for currently active to keep track of. It would
certainly make me feel more welcome and more organised if I were new
to fedorArt.

> 2) loosely coupled - different team members work in the different areas
> Paul suggested, and communicate/keep updated with each other on this
> list or by some other means. E.g., there may be some art team folks
> whose specialty is making banners/posters/etc for events so they work
> closely with marketing and ambassadors, while there may be some art team
> folks who are more interested in the website so they work closely with
> the infrastructure team members.

As this Artwork has to cover a bit of ground and some of the members
(such as myself) have only a little bit of time in their week to work
on it, this would mean a couple of people as contacts for a particular
division and would be able to concentrate on each other's work.

> = Making it Easier to Understand What's Going On and How to Contribute
> to the Art Team =
>
> == Short-Order Request Queue ==
>
> I really like Paul's idea of having a
> short-order queue/list wiki page of requests that other groups within
> the Fedora Project have made of the art team. It would be a great place
> for newbies to see a list of short-term, quick projects so they can
> quickly get their feet wet and get involved.

Totally, a frequently-edited wiki page such as
http://developer.mugshot.org/wiki/Activity_Ideas
could work well if it is split up. If feedback is needed, a thread
would be started; I like the icons John uses in his theme page to
suggest there is a thread about it.

> These requests could be
> broken down into some of the basic categories Paul suggested [3]:
>
> (Can anyone think of any other areas within Fedora
> they know of or may be involved in that may want to make short-term
> requests of an art team?)

Speak of the devil.

There has been an occaision [1] where outside requests have come in
ofr artists to contribute for an unrelated project:

* Outside Project Requests (kinda speaks for itself, if anyone feels
like a change, why not help these people in need?)

> == Long-Term Project List ==
>
> These projects would all be treated more as subteams rather than
> short-order queues, where folks working on whichever long-term project
> would list their names so folks wanting to get involved would know who
> to contact. They should also link to the wiki pages where their
> development/process is taking place.

For longer-term project, wouldn't a wiki page of it's own as we
currently have with Echo (and we know that a truly long-term) be
sufficient?

If we link the Contributors page with each project, the pages could
have a unified section at the bottom describing it's people.

./Ben

[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2006-April/msg00068.html

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