%title Today at work...
%date 2009-06-18 18:06:06
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Quite the kerfuffle over the desktop backgrounds they want to push to the public computers.  Apparently, there's some turf war going on over who gets to decide this: the public area coordinators, or the marketing team.  Unfortunately, the marketing team has won.  <a href="http://makyo.drab-makyo.com/CSULibrary_wallpaper_6-16-09.pdf">Here are the proposed desktops</a> (8MB PDF).

Note that students were not involved at all in the decision making process, nor was anyone with anything beyond a mediocre grasp of Adobe Photoshop asked to help.  The only input we got was when we were asked how possible it would be to push news and advertisements to the desktop backgrounds <em>via a PDF</em>.  You can trust that that was shot down as quickly as possible, as was anything relating to web pages as the desktop.

Currently writing a letter to those involved asking why students had no say in the look and feel of student computers.  Grr.