intro
by todd thiner
hey guys i took art in high school for three years and have done some
tinkering with photoshop and stuff and would really like to work with
fedora and create wallpapers and do some themes for fedora and whatever
else with the design team
13 years, 8 months
task
by todd thiner
i would like to be assigned a task or at least a list of task that are
easy but somewhat challanging
13 years, 8 months
Please help clean out Trac tickets
by Ian Weller
Hi guys, was helping Todd Thiner (who just emailed us with an intro and
requesting a task) on IRC. We ran across a lot of older tasks and
already-completed tasks in this list:
https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/report/1
Please help out and look for tickets owned by you or that have most
definitely expired and close them as invalid. If the original submitter
still needs that, they can reopen the ticket. It will help make it a lot
easier to those who are new to the design team wanting something to do.
Thanks!
--
Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org>
Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com
13 years, 8 months
Re: [Design-team] design-team Digest, Vol 15, Issue 35
by Taos Myers
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> 1. Re: The capital "i" in Comfortaa (Emily Dirsh)
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> 3. Joining design team wiki page (Emily Dirsh)
> 4. Re: Joining design team wiki page (Ian Weller)
> 5. Reminder: Design Team Meeting Today! (M?ir?n Duffy)
> 6. Re: Reminder: Design Team Meeting Today! (Ian Weller)
> 7. Willem de Kooning academy design program: interested in
> working with Fedora (Mel Chua)
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Emily Dirsh <emily(a)fightingcrane.com>
> To: Fedora Design Team <design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:44:40 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Design-team] The capital "i" in Comfortaa
> I'll agree - although it is not really a bone of contention for me
> personally, the 'unserif-ized' I is much cleaner looking. And though it
> would be able to be mistaken for a lowercase L - although the lower l in
> this font is differentiated, it's not immediately obvious - I'd say the
> cases where confusion could be a real issue aren't common, and easily (?)
> avoided in a titling font.
>
> Also, the word jumbling is really fun, but it's not quite as easy as you
> might think. [image: ;)] I thought this was interesting:
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511177,00.html
>
>
> On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 15:02 +0200, Fabian A. Scherschel wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Martin Sourada <martin.sourada(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Nope, I also think the "I" is a bit off in this font. Besides, "l"
> already has a more subtle, but fitting, hint of serifs.
>
>
>
> I so completely agree with that! :)
>
>
>
> That gibberish thing was actually something I learned in a Phonetics class.
> Of course I've forgotten what that phenomenon is actually called. LOL.
>
>
>
> Fab
>
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Fabian A. Scherschel" <fab(a)sixgun.org>
> To: emily(a)fightingcrane.com, Fedora Design Team <
> design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:12:25 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Design-team] The capital "i" in Comfortaa
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Emily Dirsh <emily(a)fightingcrane.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Also, the word jumbling is really fun, but it's not quite as easy as you
>> might think. [image: ;)] I thought this was interesting:
>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511177,00.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Wow, that link is cool! Nice read. Thanks, Emily! :)
>
> Fab
>
>
> # Fabian A. Scherschel
> # Host & Producer, Sixgun Productions
> # Member, Fedora Design Team
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Emily Dirsh <emily(a)fightingcrane.com>
> To: design team <design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:26:42 -0400
> Subject: [Design-team] Joining design team wiki page
> I've made a few updates to the 'how to join the design team' wiki page:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Design_Team
>
> Here's what I changed:
> - I removed one of the info boxes that were at the top, and incorporated it
> into the body of the article to remove a bit of clutter/confusion
> - I cleaned up the writing a bit, clarified a few steps, and tried to
> simplify things overall
> - I mentioned the design bounties and pointed to Mo's blog (plug, plug,
> plug - more ninjas!!!)
> - That's it!
>
> Check out the page history for the exact changes, and feel free to
> revise/comment on any of the changes I made!
>
> Emily
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org>
> To: design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:00:28 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Design-team] Joining design team wiki page
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 03:26:42PM -0400, Emily Dirsh wrote:
> > I've made a few updates to the 'how to join the design team' wiki page:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Design_Team
>
> Very well done, Emily! Thanks for your work on this page -- feel free to
> dive in anywhere on the wiki you find it appropriate to make changes. :)
>
> --
> Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org>
> Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org>
> To: design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:55:05 -0400
> Subject: [Design-team] Reminder: Design Team Meeting Today!
> Hi folks!
>
> This is a reminder that our weekly IRC meeting is at 19:00 UTC today
> (July 27) in #fedora-design on irc.freenode.net.
>
> On the agenda:
>
> - F14 artwork:
> - today is the deadline for the alpha. Which wallpaper mockup should
> we have checked in?
> - how is the feedback gathering going? Any feedback from Fedora Forum?
>
> - Fedora branding fonts:
> - Luya will be packaging Comfortaa
> - When we get Comfortaa packaged we should change the usage guidelines
> - Ian will talk about potentially using Comfortaa in the FUDcon logo
> - Other fonts - any more feedback on Cantarell or Droid Sans?
>
> - New Design team join page (by Michael Beckwith)
> - Emily made some changes, how do folks like them?
> - Any other feedback?
> - When should we copy it over to the main page?
>
> - Fedora website redesign
> - Content review status (Jef)
> - Tutorial list (Ian McG)
> - Pending mockup changes from last week:
> - move the greyscale features to the features page
> - use the four f's instead of the grey feature icons on the front
> page
>
> - Other UX projects
> - Live USB Creator UI https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/146
> - Installer UI https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/147
> - add a community feature to the slideshow front & center
> - add a section 'what makes fedora different' for current linux users
> of other distros
> - maybe the summary slide #1, community slide #2, then 2 or 3 more
> slides to show the best new features in the current release
>
> - Robyn's design team marketing plan
> Has our first interview been completed yet?
>
> - Open floor
>
> We'll try to keep the meeting to an hour.
>
> If you'd like to add items to this agenda, just reply to the email.
> Below is a time conversion listing for folks who participated in the
> meeting time selection process:
>
> Luya: 12 PM
> Tatica: 3 PM
> Martha: 3 PM
> Máirín: 3 PM
> Onyeibo: 8 PM
> fabsh: 9 PM
> wonderer: 9 PM
> Martin: 9 PM
> Nicu: 10 PM
> Pierros: 10 PM
>
> ~m
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org>
> To: design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:11:33 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Design-team] Reminder: Design Team Meeting Today!
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:55:05AM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > - Fedora branding fonts:
> > - Luya will be packaging Comfortaa
> > - When we get Comfortaa packaged we should change the usage guidelines
> > - Ian will talk about potentially using Comfortaa in the FUDcon logo
> > - Other fonts - any more feedback on Cantarell or Droid Sans?
>
> I'll more be talking about "potentially replacing all the fonts in all
> the logos with Comfortaa." Hopefully won't be too long of a discussion
> -- if it gets hairy we can take it to the list. :)
>
> --
> Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org>
> Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mel Chua <mel(a)redhat.com>
> To: Fedora Design Team <design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:38:50 -0400
> Subject: [Design-team] Willem de Kooning academy design program: interested
> in working with Fedora
> Logs that people may find interesting:
>
>
> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2010-07-23/oscon_talk_on_e...
>
> They're from an OSCON talk about a program at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_de_Kooning_Academy and how it's using
> FOSS (both the tools/tech and the open source way of doing things) as a
> requirement for its Masters students .
>
>
> http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media/category/study-programme/descriptio...
>
> "We offer a Master programme focused on a critical engagement with the
> culture of the Internet and computer media, their artistic design,
> technology and theory. It is a small course with a highly international
> community of students and teachers, and a strong emphasis on personal
> contact and collaboration... Free and Open Source Software and
> do-it-yourself ethic play a key role in the programme. Aside from its
> obvious benefit of giving you... toolchains at zero cost, Open Source
> software tends to be extremely modular, open to DIY and custom applications.
> It gives value to seemingly outmoded hardware, and provides you with
> building blocks for your own projects rather than solutions that strongly
> preformat the function and aesthetics of your work."
>
> They're very interested in talking more with the Fedora Design Team - one
> possible framing is "do the tools, techniques, and etc. we're experimenting
> with in our (physical) school transfer to distributed online communities as
> well?" but mizmo may have other angles, as she talked with them on IRC for a
> bit (as did tatica and ianweller).
>
> They're very interested in tools and processes for collaborative design,
> more than they are interested in direct replacements for existing design
> software (so design hub,
> http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/design-hub-update/, is more
> interesting to them than "GIMP is like Free Photoshop! and so forth).
>
> Immediate things for discussion at the meeting:
>
> * Can we try out PickPic for them and let them know if it's a useful tool
> (and if so, would Fedora folks be interested in helping with
> coding/deployment, as this is a prototype written by artists who aren't
> devleopers?)
> http://django.parcodiyellowstone.it/accounts/login/?redirect_to=/pickpic/...
>
> * Is anyone from Fedora Design interested in going to
> http://makeart.goto10.org/call/ to meet up with them and figure out how to
> start collaborating? (Poitiers, France, 4-7 November)
>
> * Can someone reach out to these folks and see if any of their students
> would like to do/deploy their projects within Fedora - contribute to the
> Design Team as part of their coursework, or otherwise?
>
> * Can someone reach out to them and get them to review the Design Suite
> Spin?
>
> That's off the top of my head, for meeting discussion today.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Mel
>
>
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13 years, 8 months
Joining design team wiki page
by Emily Dirsh
I've made a few updates to the 'how to join the design team' wiki page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Design_Team
Here's what I changed:
- I removed one of the info boxes that were at the top, and incorporated
it into the body of the article to remove a bit of clutter/confusion
- I cleaned up the writing a bit, clarified a few steps, and tried to
simplify things overall
- I mentioned the design bounties and pointed to Mo's blog (plug, plug,
plug - more ninjas!!!)
- That's it!
Check out the page history for the exact changes, and feel free to
revise/comment on any of the changes I made!
Emily
13 years, 8 months
The capital "i" in Comfortaa
by Fabian A. Scherschel
As I mentioned in the meeting yesterday, I love the way Comfortaa looks and
I think it goes well with the Fedora logo, the only problem I have with it
is the way the capital "i" looks. The font is very "modern" looking overall
which I think fits well with the Fedora look, but those serif-like stubs on
the "i" just don't gel with that in my eyes. They also don't fit the rest of
the font, I think. If we could modify the font to drop those, it would be
perfect. I've attached a mockup....
What do you think?
Fab
# Fabian A. Scherschel
# Host & Producer, Sixgun Productions
# Member, Fedora Design Team
13 years, 8 months
Our weekly meetings
by Máirín Duffy
Hi folks,
Now that we've had 7 [1] weekly team meetings (wow! lol) over the past
couple of months, I am wondering how everyone thinks things are going.
Do you think the meetings are running well? Do you think we could
improve how we run them? Do you think the agendas are too full? Are we
trying to take too much work on?
Are you able to make the meetings? Are you going? If not, how come? Is
there anything we could change about the meetings to make them easier
for you to attend?
How can we make the meetings more fun?
LOL lots of questions! But I want to start a little discussion here. If
the meetings suck, let's talk about it and make them better. If they are
okay, we can keep continuing them.
Anyway, I'm really sorry if the meetings are too boring; I'm not very
experienced at running meetings so I'm hoping we can make them a bit
more fun and useful in the future!
~m
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design#Latest_Meeting_Minutes
13 years, 8 months
