FC3 background

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:17:40 -0500, jck <jensknutson at yahoo.com> 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