Hi, Two things have really touched a nerve with me recently and I would like to open a discussion.
Firstly: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork#head-8c391b3699f3571c2aedfa7cb78adb4623206933 "Feisty artwork will be designed by kwwii -- of Kubuntu Edgy and KDE Oxygen Icon fame. He will be working closely with sabdfl in the design. Do not expect community involvement in defining this portion." This seems to contradict entirely the description of ubuntu "Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system ...." - Ubuntu.com . So far the Art work for Feisty has been rather doggy in my opinoin and I don't hold a huge amount of hope for it getting better. Not saying that Kwwii isn't a good artist but I don't see his art suiting the GNOME Desktop. It may turn out to be excellent but the discussion, ideas and contribution which is provided by having community involvement is going to be completely lost. Secondly, why, with all the information i've been able to squeeze, won't ubuntu/canonical consider sponsoring GUADEC (GNOME User And Developer European Conference) but were willing to be Gold Sponsor of the last aKadamy ? (KDE's Conference) especially considering that GNOME is the desktop that Ubuntu and Edubuntu uses. These two issues I have seem to be linked by my feeling that ubuntu is an organisation who's community only has a pseudo influence over decisions that really matter. It would be in the ubuntu communities interest to be a sponsor of GUADEC and to have community involved art work. ubuntu needs to look at how these decisions affect it's own community in terms of excluding them at will and importantly the affect and impression that is given to the wider open source community. Thank you, Michael Wood -- /\/\ichael [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] \/\/ood [ http://michaelwood.me.uk ] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
