On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Pascal Bleser
On 2012-12-03 18:28:05 (-0700), Andy (anditosan)
wrote: Wallpaper Contest Guidelines
Hi Andy. Sorry to be late to pick this thread up, but it's needed, I think.
This is an official announcement of the wallpaper contest for openSUSE 12.3.
I'd like to stop you right here. If you call a one-man-action that has not been discussed with the other contributors of the artwork team an "official announcement", there is clearly an issue.
No problem. Please take the contest in your team's hands and run it. It really feels like a one man's show because you have not been part of the conversations taken at the artwork team's chat. I can't help with that. But if you don't like it, I can understand. I called it official mostly because it is the artwork team that runs the contest. If it was not official, then what is?
First of all, to begin with, such actions shouldn't be taken as a one-man-show. You can't decide alone that there is going to be a wallpaper contest for openSUSE 12.3. It is not even likely to be included in the distribution if it is not an initiative that is carried by all or at least most on the team. And it is definitely not going to be included in the distribution if it does not comply with certain technical criteria.
Read above...
Furthermore, it is a gross misrepresentation of the artwork team and your role therein. This is openSUSE: we do not want people fighting for leadership for the sake of having it their way. The result should be the outcome of people working together to produce the best result. That's how we do it.
I hope that we can clarify this because there has been a lot of conversations, ideas, proposals, that I have heard from others about this subject. I have heard things of "you can do anything" to "you can't do it all." Obviously this is an area that needs more specifics.
What you wrote in this email is great for a proposal. Not as an "official announcement" and implied decision that you take on your own.
We thought that this was possible given the scope of responsibility that I have been told about by other members of the community and the board.
We're a project, we're a team, we do this together. Why do I even need to explain that in the first place ?
Mind you, I'd be the last to even want to kill off any initiatives, we clearly need them, but that's what they should be: ideas, proposals, initiatives. Not "official announcement" and everyone else is "oO". Personal initiatives are most desired, that's how things get done. But we also work in teams, and even in a project at large.
We are the only team that runs a wallpaper contest. If we don't call it official, then who does? If someone else does, I wouldn't have any problems with that. As long as we run a contest where our members can be involved.
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To also show fairness to those who may be trying to be part of our team.
I'd love you to be part of your team to begin with, really.
cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf
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