[Mageia-marketing] [Mageia-artwork] Splash screens ready

[Bradley D. Thornton]

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On 03/12/2012 06:34 AM, Max Quarterpleen wrote:

> And then Esteban showed up with a magical external solution which was very
> good, but very bad for the teams.

And he paid for that with what must have seemed to him like, "The brush
off".

I think the thing that seemed to be the most harmful was what still
seems to be the decision of one person (you) in selecting the product
pack of images.

For a minute there I was certain that I had missed some mails expressing
the preference of a different set of images over that of Esteban's, but
I didn't. And the Marcom Team didn't actually choose the other graphics
over that of Esteban's, as you seemingly inferred in your last post
(Maybe that did happen on the artwork team list, but if it didn't happen
on this list then it wasn't the MarCom Team).


> I tried to do what I thought would be best for Mageia in general, and the
> artwork team in particular in the long run. If that makes me a dick, fine.
> I didn't set out to be a dick and had only the best intentions. I still
> think that what I did is better for Mageia, and given the opportunity I
> would do it again, but it wouldn't be any easier.

It was a mistake in judgment perhaps, but certainly not a murder or
armed robbery LOL! Should you feel bad? Well, maybe you will consider
sending Esteban a private email explaining this - that the promising
graphics he seemed to just *whip up* might crush the morale of a team
that has been performing well below what you expected, and therefore,
you decided to throw him under the bus for their sake (Maybe you should
tell them how you feel too).

What you're saying isn't actually evil Max. It was a painful business
decision to let the artwork team demonstrate and validate their worth,
and just as they were coming through, as you indicated, someone popped
up out of the blue (almost), and made small work of it.

And yes, that could look bad. But if I'm not mistaken, Esteban's artwork
did come in at or maybe one day after the deadline for the freeze.

The worst decision you could have made as team lead it IMO, would be to
not make a decision at all.

That having been said, it seems you still have a lot of *post freeze*
work to do on the artwork.

But again, the thing that disturbs me isn't so much that this occurred,
but that the decision wasn't actually a team product at all, but the
decision of a single individual - an individual who cited those reasons
for not considering the newcomer's works.

> I'm very sorry that Esteban feels this way, that was entirely not my
> intention. In fact, I was up for over an hour last night (actually very
> early this morning) agonizing over that email, trying my best *not *to
> sound like a dick. I guess I failed there.

I'm sure your intentions were honorable. And they seem honorable - you
acted on behalf of a team of people who needed some sort of validation
for the welfare of that team.

Now please consider seeing if you can't patch things up with Esteban -
I've got a gut feeling that he'll become a great asset and motivating
force on your team :)

> 
> Now, I am not going to resign in a huff and storm off, because that would

Of course not. Besides, I don't think you would want to lose your
medical and dental insurance ;)

> be even worse. I don't know what I will do, but I'm open to suggestions.

Well, right now you're going to have to get some copy folded into the
artwork you[r team] chose to go forward with :)

I figure Trish will have some final copy for your team in a few hours
following a suggestion period by anyone else here.

My gravest concern remains - that the textual verbiage and the visual
concepts aren't being developed congruently in a complimentary manner
(we're pasting up).

In the meantime don't sweat it - we're all Diks at times when we're
frustrated, exhausted, and overworked. Coming to terms with that is all
we can do and then we move on - we've got a product launch to ready :)

Oh, and please stop cross-posting! It bugs me and borks my mail filters.
Sending separate duplicate messages to each list keeps the mail client
(and Bradley) happy :)

Kindest regards,


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Bradley D. Thornton
Manager Network Services
NorthTech Computer
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