[Design-team] design-team Digest, Vol 15, Issue 35

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>   1. Re: The capital "i" in Comfortaa (Emily Dirsh)
>   2. Re: The capital "i" in Comfortaa (Fabian A. Scherschel)
>   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 at fightingcrane.com>
> To: Fedora Design Team <design-team at 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 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>
>
>  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.
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>
>
> I so completely agree with that! :)
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>
> That gibberish thing was actually something I learned in a Phonetics class.
> Of course I've forgotten what that phenomenon is actually called. LOL.
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> Fab
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Fabian A. Scherschel" <fab at sixgun.org>
> To: emily at fightingcrane.com, Fedora Design Team <
> design-team at 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 at 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
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> Wow, that link is cool! Nice read. Thanks, Emily! :)
>
> Fab
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>
> # Fabian A. Scherschel
> # Host & Producer, Sixgun Productions
> # Member, Fedora Design Team
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Emily Dirsh <emily at fightingcrane.com>
> To: design team <design-team at 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 at ianweller.org>
> To: design-team at 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 at ianweller.org>
> Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org>
> To: design-team at 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 at ianweller.org>
> To: design-team at 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 at ianweller.org>
> Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mel Chua <mel at redhat.com>
> To: Fedora Design Team <design-team at 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_edu_+_foss_+_design.2010-07-23-17.12.html
>
> 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/description-philosophy/
>
> "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/selectproject/
>
> * 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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