Hi @jflory7 and @bt0dotninja -

My understanding of how nuancier works:

• nuancier admins can view approve/reject submissions.
• nuancier-mentors FAS group members can view incoming submissions but cannot approve/reject them. They also get extra weight in image voting (+3) but do not have admin privs. (The idea is that they can work with submitters in getting their submissions aligned to the guidelines, thus the mentor name)
• design-team FAS group members get extra weight in image voting (+2)
• all CLA+1 FAS accounts get a +1 weight in image voting

The way the workflow of the system is currently set up is really tailored for how Fedora supplemental wallpaper submissions work. It makes assumptions based on that process:

• there is basically one admin volunteer per release who is the supplemental wallpapers manager for that release, who takes on the responsibility of doing license checks and quality checks on submissions and can pull submissions from public voting / provide feedback on submissions to have them updated to meet guidelines. (Mentors help with this too, but don't have access to approve / reject buttons.)
• once the deadline's passed and the submissions have been sanitized, i think the admin can also turn on the voting
• the whole community of FAS account holders (with some varying weights based on FAS groups noted above) can vote on the wallpapers, and note the design-team and mentors groups get extra weight, and I'm not sure that extra weight is appropriate for your vote, but we need to keep it in place for the primary usage of the app.

I'll also note that there is no partitioning of admin privileges across 'campaigns' in the application that I am aware of, so I'm uncomfortable giving admin privs for a specific time limited thing that could impact the ongoing release work that happens in the app.

One other consideration based on the description of this project as described in fedora-commops#110 - if you have photos of people, for this type of process, you're going to need model release forms. I have the Red Hat forms we use for media that I have used in the past for photography we've taken for Fedora (e.g., on the website, videos we've posted, etc.). I can make this form available to you if that is helpful. I am not sure this is something we can do without release forms, making this a tricky proposal.

Also note - just FYI - our supplemental wallpaper guidelines are crafted to precisely avoid this problem:

"Should not contain images of people (contemporary, historical, or fictional)"

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_manage_the_supplemental_wallpaper_process

And as such Nuancier has no ability to do release form management that I'm aware of.

@duffy I'd like to find a way to do this the right way next time. We had great engagement with FWD this year and I feel like this would be a fun way to engage further. I want to be respectful towards people who don't want their photos shared, but I also recognize we are not using submitted photos for commercial use – it would be ephemeral for social media or a single blog post.

I'm not sure what a next step here looks like.

@jflory your best bet is to take this up with fedora legal imho