Public feedback should be looked at as a tool. It certainly should not be the only tool guiding design decision but used wisely(some would say sparingly) it can prove helpful.
The least inspiring art I've seen was produced by well thought out and very democratic community decision. Isn't there an unwritten rule that states "The smarter the group of corporate executives designing the art, the grayer and more dull it gets?" Hopefully what comes from the Paris meeting will be rather broad style guidelines and not a ton of overly confining details. I'm sure we all appreciate that as artists we need room for creativity or else "Bad Art" happens. Then again I doubt any of us is entirely happy with the community art we ended up with on this CD. At least I'm not. And with that as our recent record it's going to be quite a push to get out from under pressure to be micro managed. Though I want no part of it, I'd suggest we create a workable management structure of our own BEFORE Paris or we really do risk being governed heavily from outside(i.e. non artists). Chuck -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
