[Mageia-marketing] marcom + artwork + web => atelier ?

[Romain d'Alverny]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Max Quarterpleen <bogusman222 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com>
>>  - this team is named "atelier";
>
> My French is a little rusty. Does that mean "workshop"?

Yes.

> Who came up with that name?

Doesn't matter. It's just picked to have something.

> How is it pronounced?

/a.tə.lje/ see http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atelier

> And why? (I personally was starting to like webartcom)

webartcom is reductive - and ugly.

>>  - a new mailing-list is open for that;
>
> Are all participants of -marcom, -web and -artwork automatically subscribed
> to this new list? What is the address? (So I can create a new mail filter)

This list is not registered yet. All participants will have to
subscribe, an update message stating each former list being closed and
directions to subscribe to the new list will be sent.

>>  - existing web, marcom and artwork lists are kept for archive, but
>> locked down and all subscribers are unsubscribed;
>
> When will this happen?

As soon as 3 or 4 people can agree on a plan and there's no large
objection from others, and Council validates it. A good time would be
by the end of this week.

>>  - will have a say in whatever happens in this team, only those making
>> and contributing things (so here, actionable designs, working code,
>> graphics or copy, etc.); opinions and feedback from others still
>> welcome, but not enough to move forward;
>
> So, sort of a reward for participating? Interesting.... but might not work.

Then what would you suggest that would work better?

Here it's not a reward; it's a right, if you participate/make things
or if you're included by the team peers; and it's how it happens in
other teams (packagers, dev, sysadmin, qa, i18n, etc.

>>  - external contributions are a true option; that is, one team peer
>> getting in touch/inviting a professional person [...]
>
> I think iamoverrated has already started doing this with a graphic designer.
> I'm not sure on the details, we've been playing IRC tag for a week or so...

Oh, that's great then. That would be even greater that details (what
work, what scope, when, how, etc.) and progress are posted on this
list so that things are not wasted or duplicated in the end.

>>  - formatting our resources so that one-shot contributions from
>> external people are made easier is a true option too (that means
>> things easier to grasp, understand and update);
>
> How?

I don't know. At this time, I only can find GitHub's "fork and pull"
way very inspiring
(https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests) + more
documentation on how/why things are as they are.

>>  - no more meeting, we plan and do things, and update everyone through
>> the mailing-list (or other, but asynchronous); so being on IRC is not
>> a must, just good to have;
>
> Where will we be hanging out? New channel? One of the existing channels?

We'll see. "No meeting" policy doesn't prevent from chatting, hopefully :-p