graphics
by Marc Wiriadisastra
I was just browsing mugshot as I do. I know Nicu has some dvd/cd covers
and other graphics on his site which are brilliant. I just wanted to
say I found these today as well and I have to say all this art is
brilliant.
http://www.molaora.com/index.php/blog/show/CD-cover.html
There are other bits and pieces on the site so have a look around.
Maybe we need to create a fedora art pack of sorts? Cause I'm really
liking all the graphics being released from Nicu and others.
Only thing though is that I love how the desktop background changes
colours in F8 so I'm not to sure if we would lose that if we switched
backgrounds.
Cheers,
Marc
16 years, 5 months
Fedora struggles with harm reduction via Codec Buddy
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
Very interesting take on a thorny issue. Some questions about the nature
of the agreement is also answered here..
http://www.linux.com/feature/120703
"In public health, harm reduction is a practice that, rather than trying
to eradicate potentially dangerous choices like prostitution, tries to
minimize their effects. Often, the practice involves a limited condoning
of the practice, such as safe injection sites for addicts. Harm
reduction is the path that Fedora 8 has chosen on the issue of MP3 and
other non-free codecs in the form of Codec Buddy, a Codeina-based
program that tries to educate users about free software while giving
them easy legal access to codecs by linking to the commercial Fluendo
site. It's a decision about which the Fedora Board and community leaders
feel considerable ambivalence."
Rahul
16 years, 5 months
OLPC makes it to India
by Marc Wiriadisastra
Hey All,
Just thought I would post this reference for Fedora being the base for
OLPC.
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/11/olpc-makes-its-entry-into-india-fin...
When the OLPC first made news, a prominent official in the HRD ministry
of the Indian government had gone on record snubbing the OLPC project
($100 laptop), even making a preposterous claim that work was under way
to create India's own $10 laptop. But as things have worked out, OLPC
has already made an entry into India in the form of a pilot project in a
rural primary school in a village in the state of Maharasthra.
Cheers,
Marc
16 years, 5 months
My first event but...
by Laith Juwaidah
Hi,
An open day will be held in one of the biggest universities in the country
on the 6th of Nov.
I want to participate but I've got some problems:
1. I don't think I can do everything on my own, I tried to contact the other
ambassador in the country, Mr. Yasser Al-Shaqsi, twice, but I haven't got
any reply.
2. I don't have the material I need: I don't have T-shirts, I don't have a
projector. All I have is a laptop where people can try Fedora...
3. I don't know about this but it's stupid to say to someone "Here's the
seventh version. Oh! BTW, the eighth version will be released after 3
days"!!!!
So, what do you think? Should I go for it, or should I just wait till the
next event? (The nearest even I know about is COMEX which will be in April)
:(
Cheers!
--
Laith Juwaidah
http://www.ljuwaidah.org
16 years, 5 months
spins.fpo design
by Máirín Duffy
Hey folks,
Just an update on the spins.fpo design I've been working on. At this
point I am sure it will not make f8's release but I'd like to get it up
as soon as is reasonable post-release. :)
So, remember the mockups i did a while back? I started HTML-ifying them;
I just finished with the main content for the spins details mock (still
need to add the fpo template to it as well as the icons):
- HTML: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/spins/spin-details.html
- Mockup: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/spindetailsmock2.png
The other HTML I want to do is for this mockup:
- Mockup: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/spinsmock5.png
(the banner at the top will be replaced with new artwork! something like
this: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/spins/djs.png)
Overall I think the spins.fpo site should have the following pages:
-- main page: introduction to what spins are
|
|-- spin details page
| |
| |- bittorrent tutorial
| |
| |_ what's my arch tutorial
|
|-- what is a spin / how do i use a spin page
|
|__ how do i create my own spin? page
The open work items I see from a design POV are:
1 - Content for the how to create my own spin page (any suggestions on
existing content I can use for this page?) (0% done AFAIK)
2 - Content for the what is a spin / how do i use a spin page? (any
suggestions on existing content I can use for this page?) (0% done AFAIK)
3 - Mockups & HTML for the 6 pages in the above sitemap (maybe 25% there)
4 - Finish DJ banner artwork for the main page (80% done)
5 - Obtain photos from willing Fedora users to represent the spins (25%,
Manuel Amador has provided me photos, I may need to make a formal call
for photo submissions or start taking photos of innocent vict^H^H^H^H
volunteers around the office :))
6 - Get all the content into i18n-able templates and into git... Work
out a mechanism to generate a details page for each spin and get content
into it? (0% done, any ideas?)
Eventually I think we will need a spins 'directory' but thus far we have
few enough spins we dn't have to worry about that yet.
Anyhow, I hope this gives a clear picture of where we're at for the
blingtastic spins page; if anybody has answers/suggestions for the open
work items above do share :)
~m
16 years, 5 months
