Hi, I could write a book about community efforts - it is quite complicated and I am not sure if there is a fool proof plan :P What I found works best in drawing new contributions is two things: 1) Empower the people already in the community by helping them not only to contribute and take part by sharing the responsibilities but also to teach and help them where possible. It is easy to say "I do artwork". How many people really have that much experience and knowledge though? Those who do should help mentor those who are still learning. Naturally even those with lots of experience and skills also keep learning so being flexible and considerate at all times has top priority. 2) Find out in which channels people are already active and use those to your benefit. We chose flickr because it is free and there are a *LOT* of good photographers already there. This made it a) easy to contribute and b) easy to find new contributors. There was a lot of discussion around using flicker because it is not open source, etc. but in the end it was definitely the right choice - just look at the pics and judge for yourself. Oh, one last important thing, we also created a sort of jury to select the images which are included in every release. The jury was made up of employees doing design and members of the community. Once we got the ball rolling we picked jury members out of the "winners" from the last round. This helped to encourage new contributors to keep going and kept the whole process fresh. Hope that helps :-) Kenneth Wimer -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Rajko wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:56:15 +0200 Kenneth Wimer
wrote: Hi all,
I previously worked for Canonical and one of the artwork community efforts I pushed forward was the wallpaper contest on flickr - http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/.
I was there before. Some of Ubuntu's wallpapers are so exciting that I looked for more and found above. That is also what I hope we can achieve here in openSUSE, to bring the same fascination and (insatiable) hunger for more.
It might be a good idea to start something like this because it draws from a wider audience, brings more attention to the project and is a great way to get loads of good photos for all kinds of things
I think that too, it is just too little time on my hands to explore existing options and learn how to use them, so I join Eugene's question about some directions.
Also, I do photography as well as design so if any help is needed just say the word :-)
Right man for the moment :)
Kenneth Wimer
PS.
Not to forget again one tool that could be very useful when browsing for ideas: http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr/ (I put that in some mail, but it seems that one never left my computer)
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