design-team April 2010

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Allegheny student projects: what are we working on, anyway?
by Mel Chua 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

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

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Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks
by John Poelstra 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

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 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

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

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More about the Allegheny students
by Mel Chua 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

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

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Hi to all the Designers!!
by Manuel Escudero 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

*Hi, my name is Manuel, I'm from México, and I wanted to Join to the Designers Fedora's Group.* * * *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.* * * *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.* * * *Thanks!* * * *Sincerely: * * * *Manuel Escudero* * * * * *P.S. You can read more about me in My Wiki Page at Fedora's Wiki:* * * *https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jmlevick*

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Proper resolution instead of scaling (Help out in Bugzilla)
by Misha Shnurapet 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

Hello, Design Team! I would like to ask for a little help of a designer with my report in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579124 I would very much appreciate someone having good vision help me explain the matter of the requested fix to the programmers maintaining the package. Thank you. -- Best regards, Misha Shnurapet

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Rebranding
by Fabian A. Scherschel 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/04/magenta-is-new-blue-rebranding-fedora.… Well done, Nicu! Nice treatment! I love the logos... And I actually think the "King of Linux" slogan is amazing. Might be better than the original Fedora one... ;) Fab # Fabian A. Scherschel # Podcaster, Blogger, Fedora Contributor # https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FabianScherschel

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