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by John Poelstra 17 May '10

17 May '10

Start End Name Tue 04-May Mon 17-May Create Final Release Banners Tue 25-May Tue 25-May Final (GA) Release

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The Archive
by wonderer 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hy there, for some time we all working on tasks where we reuse templates, pictures, Textual templates, etc. for all kind of work. But there is no place where we keep that collected work, that snippets of small peaces that could be reused in other ways. So, I had a small IRC talk with rbergeron and that gave a kick-off for "the archive" page [1]. It can/should be a kind of overlapping Startpage for Art/Design/photo/Textual/Marketing thingy. The idea is to collect these pieces out there in one place to reuse them for other work and not to invent the wheel new every time ;-) One of the first big issues / goals / whatever could be to have some kind of program-package installed on fedorahosted with maybe a small local part to manage some kind of photobucket (e.g. like digikam). Maybe you guys have some ideas or use already some kind of multiuser Photo-managing tool with tools like we all know from flickr & Co. that we could use for our own. Maybe it is a stupid idea, but I would like to have some kind of event photos from events Fedora people are on in a good quality (technical as well as compositional) to put those on e.g. flyers, presentations, Marketing Material, etc. In this gallery there also can be screenshots from different Releases also as from some general Programms we have in the distro over the years. Also e.g. some Backgrounds for presentation-templates, etc. I already posted a small Blogpost on how to make better event photos and the resonance was pretty good on that [2] so my impression is that there are more photographers are out that we can think of... Yes, I also know of that pain-in-the-ass discussion about model-contract, but hopefully that will come to an end soon. All I can offer at that moment is a common TfP [3] contract I translated into english and which is used in europe as far as I know and which I linked on the archive page so far. So, what you all think about that? Ideas? Also take a look at #fedora-photo if you want. mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards Henrik Heigl - wonderer(a)fedoraproject.org PGP/GnuPG: 8237 D432 0616 D567 DBC6 3FE3 0D52 B374 F468 A5F0 [1] = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Archive [2] = http://www.braincache.de/wp/2010/04/08/better-event-photos/ [3] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_for_print

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Re: [Design-team] Recommend change F13launch image to JPEG to reduce download time and add text link to F13 Tour
by Sijis Aviles 16 May '10

16 May '10

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Al Thomas <astavale(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > The current main image on http://stg.fedoraproject.org/ is a 200K PNG. > > This can easily be reduced in size 10 times to a 20K JPEG with negligible reduction in image quality, i.e. 'Explore Fedora's possibilities' is still readable. Just need to make sure the transparent corners are changed to white to match the background. > > Also the F13 release banner could do with the same treatment. > > I can see both images being visibly drawn line by line as I download the page and I'm on a fast broadband connection. To the casual browser on a slower connection the page could be unbearably slow. > Great catch! I'll pass that along to design so we become more aware of things like this. I haven't noticed it since I typically look at the site locally on my system. > Usually the Fedora release tour is really informative but to have no textual link to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_tour means this is hidden for many people who quickly scan the page. I only found it after attempting to redesign the F12 release front page! Just a change to > > What's new in Fedora 13? Take the <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_tour">tour</a> and read the <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f13/">release notes. >></a> > > instead of > > <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f13/">What's new in Fedora 13? Read the release notes. >></a> > > would at least make people aware there is more information available. I did notice that the Tour page was blank. I thought it was still in progress. I found that the Tour page was replaced by https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes. I reached out to someone in Marketing and i got the details. In short, The Tour was deprecated in favor of the previous link, since F12. > All the best for the release, > > Al > We really appreciate your suggestions, ideas and patches. I know you sent a handful of patches a couple of weeks ago for the home page. I apologize but i have not reviewed them, however, I have them flagged and will get them to them after the release. Thanks again, Sijis

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Supplemental wallpapers for F14
by Máirín Duffy 15 May '10

15 May '10

Hi folks, We missed included supplemental wallpapers again in F13. I feel really badly about this. I think if we start looking for some early on as we also think about the default theme we'll be better on track to make sure we make it happen for F14. I've put together some Flickr galleries of CC-BY and CC-BY-SA images that I think would make excellent wallpapers. I'd like to encourage you to do the same, and maybe we can prep a package or two of beautiful supplemental wallpapers for F14. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mairin/galleries/72157623919577637/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mairin/galleries/72157623919363851/ ~m

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F14 Laughlin -- We're open for design concepts submissions
by Martin Sourada 14 May '10

14 May '10

Hi all, so the codename for F14 has been decided -- Laughlin, so it's the right time to let the F14 Artwork's ball rolling. I hereby announce that suggestions, design concepts and WIP wallpapers implementing this name are welcomed both here and on the following wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Theme_Concepts Discussion is preferred here, but each submission (supposing there's also a preview/WIP included) needs to be both uploaded to wiki and announced on this mailing list. Please use only openly licensed works when uploading to wiki, sources are preferred in SVG for vector based images and XCF for raster based ones. As for the deadline, AFAIK we have not yet the dates set, so it will be announced later, but it will probably be some time before Alpha (probably something between 1 and 3 weeks before Alpha freeze to give us enough time to decide on a final concept, to put it in enough shape for alpha and to package it). Happy designing, Martin

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How To Unsuscribe?
by Manuel Escudero 12 May '10

12 May '10

I'm not Longer interested in being in the Design-Team... How do I unsuscribe from the mailing List? Thank's -- <-Manuel Escudero-> Linux User #509052 @GWave: jmlevick(a)googlewave.com @Blogger: http://www.blogxenode.tk/ (Xenode Systems Blog) PGP/GnuPG: DAE3 82E9 D68E 7AE4 ED31 1F8F 4AF4 D00C 50E7 ABC6

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Milestones for next phase of web redesign (main page)
by Paul W. Frields 11 May '10

11 May '10

Our web redesign project has continued to move forward in a phased approach. Before Fedora 12 release, the spins.fp.o pages were also completely redesigned and implemented to provide spin owners a better way to market and promote their spins. Now, before Fedora 13 release, we're well on our way to completing the last bits of the get.fp.o pages that were redesigned, providing a clearer way for people to download the default image. The next phase of the current redesign process is to revamp the front page (the main fedoraproject.org page) to be more informative and welcoming for a wider audience. In the Board's public meeting last Thursday we had a conversation with the Websites team and one of the actions I took on was to start talking with the Websites and Design team about setting milestones for this redesign. I would hope to complete this phase well in advance of the Alpha release of Fedora 14, which would help us avoid crunching up too much workload into the last phase of our release cycle, and allow everyone to concentrate on other pieces of the release. I want to invite members of the Design and Websites team who want to work on this next phase to, first, look at the work that Mo Duffy has already done for mockups, and second, think about the tasks we need to complete to make those mockups into reality. * Are there any widgets or supporting scripts that need to be completed first? * Who can we get to create the photos and other collateral to populate the front page? * Any tweaks we want to make to the design to address open issues? Then we can set some dates for completion and make this part of a regular meeting agenda. I think it makes sense to coordinate this work on the websites@ list, so I'm setting that reply-to. Anyone interested in helping with further refinements, and HTML, CSS, and JavaScript work, can sign up for the websites list here: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites I'd like to arrive at a schedule by the first Websites meeting *after* F13 GA, which is approximately 10 days from now if I remember the meeting schedule correctly. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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Upcoming Schedule Tasks
by John Poelstra 10 May '10

10 May '10

Start End Name Tue 27-Apr Mon 10-May Polish/Finalize Release Party Posters Tue 04-May Mon 17-May Create Final Release Banners Wed 12-May Wed 12-May Fedora 13 Final Release Readiness Meeting Tue 18-May Tue 18-May Final (GA) Release

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F13 media art
by Paul W. Frields 06 May '10

06 May '10

Starting this thread to track the status of F13 media art. Who's got the ball on this one? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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fedora wallpaper
by abdualrhman atta 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hello, this is a sample of fedora wallpaper what do you think

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