[Mageia-marketing] Proposal to merge with artwork

[Max Quarterpleen]

Think of it this way: both artwork and marcom are concerned with the
appearance of Mageia. It's all about how we present ourselves to the world.
Whether it's a shiny desktop, eye catching posters or good content on
podcasts. It all boils down to the same thing: how we look to the outside
world.
One of main problems we have with this is good communication. It's not just
this one project where the two teams need to work together, but it's many
projects. Thinking back for a few seconds I recall the booth setup for
FOSDEM, the posters, the disc covers and a few other projects where both
teams needed to work together.
Aside from the lack of cooperation *within* the team, there was bad
communication *between* teams. Efforts have been made in the past to try
and amplify the cooperation, by staggering IRC meetings, by having people
sign up for both mailing lists... but they never worked well. Most recently
when we tried to collaborate we had many double posts on both lists, many
redundant threads and many people being left out of the loop. Why? Because
we were trying to communicate across two different lists and more or less
the same people.
Now, to clarify: the proposal isn't to merge the actual teams, just the
communication channels. There will be (under the new proposal) one mailing
list and one IRC channel. But essentially both teams will function as
before. Each team will have one leader and one council representative
(probably the same person for each team) and one deputy. This way both
teams can function as a single unit when it comes to cross-communication
and idea sharing (which happens a lot), but each team retains its autonomy.
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