Last-minute design help needed: FUDCon ad
by Mel Chua
So we had the FUDCon ad all finished, and then there was a last-minute
change of format, and from B&W to color. But we did it!
https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/71#comment:17
...the wrong way 'round. It works this way, Chris is going to print it
sideways if we need to, but in case someone wants to pick up a quick
last-minute tweak, the ticket's up.
Chris notes the final file is needed by noon EDT (approx 4.5 hours from
now). We are ok as-is, so this is not a PANIC NOW! ticket, more a "if
you want to tweak it, noon EDT is the cutoff" note.
--Mel
(in #fedora-design)
11:14:29 < brejc8> is that "4.25" (tall) x 5.5" (wide)" ?
11:16:09 < brejc8> mchua: do you have the widths and heights the right
way round?
11:17:43 < mchua> brejc8: ...ARGH
(over in #fudcon-planning)
11:19:12 < mchua> ctyler: um... can you print it sideways?
11:19:22 * mchua should probably not inkscape in the wee hours of the
morning
11:19:41 < ctyler> mchua: we could, but it might look... sideways
11:20:01 < mchua> ctyler: "adds visual interest"?
11:20:08 * ctyler feels really bad about the last minute changes
11:20:44 * mchua could add "why is this ad sideways? come to FUDCon
Toronto and ask Chris Tyler to find out!"
14 years, 5 months
Fedora, and the fedora
by Kamisamanou Burgess
Hello,
I might be beating an old horse, but I have a question:
Why can't the blue fedora be used in reference to the Fedora project?
Now before everyone starts dancing to the rattle of their keyboards, let me
clear up a few things.
1. I don't want the hat to be the logo
2. I like our current logo
3. I've seen "The making of the Fedora Logo" on redhat.com
Why do I want to use the hat?
The answer really stems from an artistic standpoint. Characters such as
os-tans, linux penguins, etc. look really good with the hat. I like those
characters. I understand that the logo could be affixed to those, but it
looks weird as anything other than a badge for a shirt.
What follows is my counter to the page on the Fedora wiki.
>
> The hats you might have seen elsewhere were not Fedora logos
Understood.
> . You might have seen the red hat that was passed down from Fedora's Red
> Hat Linux lineage
I don't want to use a red hat.
> Other hats have been community creations and never had any official
> connection to Fedora. Use our logo and avoid using hats to represent Fedora
> since we want Fedora to have its own independent brand.
>
I understand the need to seperate ourselves from Red Hat Linux, but Fedora
is a fork of a former version of Red Hat. Furthermore, Fedora is in the
name, making a direct reference to the shadowman's topper. Lastly, when
combined with the official colour scheme, the fedora(not referencing the red
hat design, most logos don't use it) does an extremely good job at
representing Fedora Linux.
Thanks for your time.
Sayonara,
Kamisamanou Burgess
http://www.kamisamanou.net
14 years, 5 months
Hello New Member
by James Mulroy
Hello there,
My name is James, I am a new subscriber to the Fedora Design Team. My recent
transition from a Illustrator CS and Photoshop CS enviroment to the Linux /
Inkscape / Gimp / Open source world has been an eye opener. I really like
the idea of a community based project and can't wait to help out you guys in
the future.
I am proficiant in the use of both Inkscape and gimp, avid reader of
computer arts & grafik.
Unfortunately I am low on example work (it's complicated), I currently have
alot of spare time on my hands, so I am putting it to good use on a new
portfolio.
Is there library of base fedora media that I can get my hands on?
Kind Regards
James M
14 years, 5 months
Upcoming Schedule
by John Poelstra
Start End Name
Tue 29-Sep Tue 20-Oct Create Count Down Graphic
Tue 20-Oct Tue 20-Oct Beta Release Public Availability
Tue 20-Oct Tue 03-Nov Create DVD/CD label and sleeve artwork
Mon 02-Nov Fri 06-Nov Create Final Release Banners
Tue 03-Nov Mon 16-Nov Polish/Finalize Release Party Posters
14 years, 5 months
Icon help needed
by Matthias Clasen
Hey,
we've got xdg folder icons [1] for our default icon theme now (thanks,
Andreas !). They look really awesome in the places menu [2] and in the
file chooser [3], and we would like to include them in F12.
Unfortunately, we miss scalable versions, which causes things to go bad
in nautilus [4].
So, we badly need some artistic help. Your challenge, if you accept it,
is to take the scalable Mist folder icon [5] and add scalable lookalikes
of the emblems from [1] to it. I've tried myself with them simplest one,
but the result [6] clearly shows that this requires skills I don't have.
Please help us out.
Thanks, Matthias
[1] http://mclasen.fedorapeople.org/xdg-folders/mist-folders-xdg.tar.gz
[2] http://mclasen.fedorapeople.org/xdg-folders/Screenshot-Places.png
[3] http://mclasen.fedorapeople.org/xdg-folders/Screenshot-Open%20Files.png
[4] http://mclasen.fedorapeople.org/xdg-folders/Screenshot-mclasen.png
[5] http://mclasen.fedorapeople.org/xdg-folders/folder.svg
[6] http://mclasen.fedorapeople.org/xdg-folders/folder-documents.svg
14 years, 5 months
Fedora Remix logos
by Peter Robinson
Hi Design Team,
I'm wondering who is the maintainer of the Fedora Remix logos? And
whether someone can package them up into a fedora-remix-logos package
to make them easier to use for things like plymouth boot screens (to
replace that horrid hotdog thing). I originally filed a bug [1] to get
them added to the generic-logos package but it was suggested a new
package might be better. In the short term it would be great to be
able to use it for the Moblin Remix for F-12 (which will be mainline
for F-13 :-) ) but also it would be useful to make it easier for
people like the sugar team to be able to add a remix label to their
releases so its more easily identifiable as something based on Fedora
:-)
Cheers,
Peter
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501106
14 years, 5 months
Schedule reminder for 2009-10-12
by John Poelstra
Start End Name
Mon 12-Oct Mon 12-Oct Beta Blocker Bug (go/no go)
Wed 14-Oct Wed 14-Oct Beta Project Wide Release Readiness Meeting
Fri 16-Oct Fri 16-Oct Beta Export Control Reporting
Tue 20-Oct Tue 20-Oct Beta Release Public Availability
Fri 23-Oct Fri 23-Oct Blocker Bug Day (F12Blocker) #1
p.s. Thank you to the people who emailed me ideas on how to format these
messages better. I'm still working on it.
14 years, 5 months