Allegheny student projects: what are we working on, anyway?
by Mel Chua
Teams and their projects are listed here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Allegheny_Activism:_Team_Assignments
You'll notice that I've gone through and constructed a lot of
scaffolding (well, a "lot" of scaffolding in terms of what we usually
have in Fedora; I'm sure it's very little scaffolding compared to what
students are used to getting in class!) on the projects in an attempt to
help the students get started. If you think you can improve on that
scaffolding in any way, please do so! And if you're interested in a
particular project, please contact the team members - their contact info
is listed on the wiki, and we'll be helping them join the appropriate
IRC channels and lists this week.
Projects (which should mostly be obvious from their URL):
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Video_hosting
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_social_networks#Twitter
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_press_kit
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_feature_profiles (We've already got
our core feature profiles being written - generating more profiles for a
general audience will also help us improve our ability to market to our
target userbase.)
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design_team_ticket_tackling_tools
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_on_a_Stick#Spins_Page
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design_Suite#Spins_Page
Folks who are involved with specific projects may be getting pings in
the near future; you're of course under no obligation to answer, but if
you'd like an extra couple pairs of hands, this is an excellent
opportunity. ;)
Again, we're hanging out in #allegheny if you'd like to swing by and ask
questions, though we're also going to be coming into the main
#fedora-mktg and #fedora-design channels as folks have questions.
Questions, comments, discussion, etc welcome as usual - thank you again
for putting up with this grand experiment! It should be fun.
--Mel
13 years, 12 months
Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks
by John Poelstra
Start End Name
Tue 09-Mar Tue 30-Mar Prepare wallpaper for Beta
Tue 23-Mar Tue 06-Apr Create Count Down Graphic
Wed 31-Mar Fri 02-Apr Create Beta Website Banner
Wed 31-Mar Wed 31-Mar Package: Beta Wallpaper
Thu 01-Apr Thu 01-Apr Beta Project Wide Release Readiness Meeting
Tue 06-Apr Tue 06-Apr Beta Release Public Availability
Tue 06-Apr Tue 20-Apr Create DVD/CD label and sleeve artwork
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Re: [Design-team] Screen tests
by Hristo Petkov
Hi,
A couple of hours ago I read an e-mail about an icon which is not fitting something on a screen.
The commonly used screens for testing at present are:
1680 x 1050
1440 x 900
1280 x 800
1400 x 1050
1280 x 960
1024 x 768
800 x 600
1280 x 1024
1280 x 720p (HDTV)
800 x 480 sony PSP
320 x 480 iPhone
320 x 240 Cellphone
My screen is 1440 x 900 - in case you have something to test on it.
Regards
13 years, 12 months
More about the Allegheny students
by Mel Chua
Short version: Marketing and Design have help for the remainder of F13,
and we're working to scaffold 40 newcomers quickly into helping with
specific deliverables (Marketing) and tickets (Design).
Longer version: Over the next month, this statement will become more and
more true.
"During the Spring 2010 semester, 40 first-year students from Allegheny
College dove into the Fedora project. Specifically, with the help of the
excellent people on the Marketing and Design teams, they engaged in
their first experience as open source contributors, learning about
blogging, wikis, IRC, and how to create positive change as part of a
worldwide community."
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Allegheny_Activism_And_Fedora
I'll be writing more details to the lists as we find them - I'm working
with the professors and will be on campus for another week working with
the class directly. We're trying to be as open and transparent about
this process as possible, but there's also the tension of not wanting to
completely overwhelm students with what's going on. We are learning how
to build this kind of scaffolding - it's going to be frustrating at
times from the community side because the first thing we need to figure
out in bridging the classroom + the community is how to communicate.
It means we may be doing some things opposite of the way we'd usually
encourage people to get started in FOSS - experimenting with private
emails that later get forwarded to public lists, etc - at least during
initial attempts to see if they work out. Basically, we're trying to get
them all to work TOSW, but maybe in order to do that quickly we have to
start in a less-TOSW manner so we can ramp up to full "yeah, community
participation makes sense!"-fu as fast as possible for as many people as
possible. We'll do a full report + disclosure of everything after the
semester ends (right after F13 releases, actually). I suppose what I'm
trying to say is "yes, we're doing strange things; we realize that some
of what we're doing is *not* normal, and we're trying our best to be
transparent and explain things as we go along, but "the best we can do"
may not be "good enough to make sense" for a little longer.
Anyway! That disclaimer aside, I'm quite excited - we've got them on
small projects like "make a webpage for this new spin" and "develop and
teach a microblogging outreach strategy." We'll see more as the week
goes by.
The students hang out on #allegheny (sometimes - they're still learning
IRC, so the channel is still rather empty) if you want to lurk and say
hello; that's their sandbox to play in for the class (creating a safe
space where the profs can announce things like assignments, lab hours,
etc is important), though we'll be pulling them into #fedora-mktg and
#fedora-design as much as possible as well.
Please please please ping me on IRC (mchua) or email or anywhere if you
have any questions, thoughts, ideas, concerns, and especially
suggestions on how we can be more transparent about what we're doing -
that's a big focus of mine, trying to teach people here how to turn on
the firehose. We're going to learn a lot about what Fedora looks like to
newcomers as we go along - their end-of-term reflections are supposed to
be on that - and that, for me, is the most exciting part about all this.
We're learning how to help people help us.
That's an update for now, and a big setting-the-stage dump: more
thoughts coming as more things happen. Tomorrow morning (Tuesday,
11am-noon EST) is class again, so there may be a flurry of activity
around then.
--Mel
13 years, 12 months
Hi to all the Designers!!
by Manuel Escudero
*Hi, my name is Manuel, I'm from México, and I wanted to Join to the
Designers Fedora's Group.*
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*I can use some design tools such as GIMP & PHOTOIMPACT and PHOTO EXPRESS,
these are the ones that I use most of the time, and well, I can do some
graphics such as Banners, Wallpapers, Logos and others.*
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*I'm interested in work with you and help the project as much as I can, Just
contact me... I'm in the process to complete all the "Tasks" Needed in order
to join to the Designers Group in the Fedora Project, and well, I'm Ready to
Work.*
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*Thanks!*
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*Sincerely: *
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*Manuel Escudero*
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*P.S. You can read more about me in My Wiki Page at Fedora's Wiki:*
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*https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jmlevick*
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