[Mageia-marketing] Proposal to merge with artwork

Sat Mar 17 19:43:37 CET 2012

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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