On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 11:18 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
On 02/15/2010 10:02 PM, Justin O'Brien wrote:
>
> I had an idea Brainstorming in #f-mktg. We were trying to come up with
> ways to extend our reach. Getting Free Software/Linux people is awesome
> but who else might be interested in Fedora? so I thought why don't we
> put on a Fedora Project artshow?!?
>
>
> Here is what I was invisioning...
>
> * we somehow procure a gallery
We (Design Team) persuaded Infrastructure to give us a test instance of
some galley software and got Gallery2. It was cumbersome and not
integrated with the rest of the Fedora web presence, so it was very
little used and not advertised at all (it was a step-up from our
previous try to use the wiki for the same task). I believe the test
instance was removed in the mean time.
To keep a community alive, I would recon we will need more than this. I
would add the possibility of having micro-blogging functionanility
attached to this gallery. Interaction will be a key feature in keeping
the community alive and recruiting new people, besides keeping a high
interest degree from those already involved.
In the testing space there is also a gallery envisioned mostly for
Ambassadors use:
http://publictest16.fedoraproject.org/plogger/ again,
with an unfriendly interface and very little use.
It should be also mentioned the Albums section of
fedoraforum.org:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/album.php which is, no offense - posted my
own share of crap there, a bit of a mess.
There are also Fedora groups on sites like deviantART and flickr, but
those are not to be used for our core functionality, being closed
platforms (so out of the 4 foundations).
> * Fedorians bring in some art they had done
> * we invite people from the art world to see it
> * try to get written up in art mags (do they exist, if so which ones)
We first have to gather the creation and grow confident they are good
enough.
> * thought this would be an awesome way to show that art and
> freesoftware are great partners
> * thought this would be a way that people could parade out that one
> desgin they had for $fedoraVersionInThePast that just didnt make it
I was thinking about this also as a way to give users stuff they may
like to use - wallpapers and such.
> * would be a way to see the creative side of people we didnt know had
> one (how many coders/marketing people/legal etc are also painters,
> sculpters, etc)
Many people do not realize this: is not *that* hard to create art, you
just have to have a story to tell, the rest is only tools and we have
the tools.
I do agree, but tools aren't just enough. There should also be present a
strong human bound and at some point an environment of cumplicity
amongst our users.
Being a student myself, I've been developing works for school that aim
real life situations. I would eventually point to a campaign that aims
to target art students through schools.
About deviantart, they provide sales services (and I do "gear up" my
desktop on DeviantART). We shouldn't probably take such approach, but
the functionality (non-commercial) should be something that we can take
as a good example.
If you look at
http://art.gnome.org, it's been dead for quite some time,
and it's way smaller than Deviant Art. So there's a good example that
just a small gallery isn't enough. We need more... As an artist, what
would you consider important to have to build a community and keep them
interested everyday ?
Nelson