[Design-team] Introduction: Nicole Harris

[Nicole Harris]

Hi Guys,

Haven't heard anything on the below: should I shelve it and move onto an
open ticket?  Máirín I'd be interested in discussing anything UI related :-)

Cheers,
Nicole

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Nicole Harris <
harris.nicolelouise at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Máirín,
>
> Thanks for the warm welcome.
>
> The sticky-notes piece sounds like a good place to start - hook me up and
> I will see how it goes!
>
> Thanks,
> Nicole
>
>
>
>
> 2012/4/12 Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org>
>
>> Hi Nicole!
>>
>> On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 07:31 +1000, Nicole Harris wrote:
>> > My name is Nicole Harris - I'm a web designer based in Melbourne,
>> > Australia. I've been using linux for a while now and am a recent
>> > convert to Fedora (previously I used ubuntu).
>>
>> It's a pleasure to meet you; I'm so excited to see your interest in our
>> team!
>> >
>> > I'd love to get involved - I'm specifically interested in learning
>> > more about UX design and participating in these types of projects.
>> >
>> >
>> > Some examples of my work:
>> >
>> > www.roi.com.au (this is my workplace - i redesigned their website last
>> > year, since then someone else has taken over the project, but my
>> > initial design is still *pretty much* there)
>> > www.sanremoballroom.com.au
>> > www.janetwolf.com.au (one of my really early designs...)
>>
>> Very impressive portfolio! Fantastic visual design on all of these.
>> >
>> > By day I now focus on conversion based solutions for online marketing
>> > campaigns - this involves a/b and multivariate split testing.
>> >
>> > By night I am designing a couple of web apps (too early to show you
>> > any examples...!) with my partner who is a web developer.
>> >
>> > skills:
>> > Gimp, Inkscape
>> > HTML, CSS, Wordpress, Joomla
>> > Jquery (beginner)
>> >
>> > Looking forward to getting my hands dirty!
>>
>> Awesome! I'm so glad to see you have so much open source tool
>> experience :)
>>
>> Our normal process for joining the team is that we ask new recruits to
>> take on a minor ticket in our tracking system as sort of
>> practical/applied introduction to how the Fedora community works. You
>> end up making connections and learning the Fedora infrastructure through
>> that which powers you to taking on bigger projects.
>>
>> I don't know if the design ticket has been filed yet, but the Fedora
>> infrastructure team (#fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net) yesterday was
>> talking about needing a Fedora skin for a stickynotes web app they're
>> looking to deploy. A test instance of it is available at:
>>
>> http://dcr226.co.uk/paste/sticky-notes
>>
>> We'd want, at a minimum, for the design/template to match our newer
>> Fedora infrastructure templates such as for Fedora packages (I did the
>> skin for this one):
>>
>> https://community.dev.fedoraproject.org/packages/inkscape
>>
>> Or Koji, our build system (Ryan Lerch, who is also based in Australia at
>> the moment, did the skin for this):
>>
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/
>>
>> Let me know if this seems like an intro project you'd like to take on.
>> Alternatively we could find something more UX-centric for you to take on
>> since you have strong interest and ability in UX stuff. We do have a few
>> pending usability assessments and mockup requests in the ticket system.
>> Our list of open tickets is here:
>>
>> https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/report/1?asc=1&page=1
>>
>> Anyway, I don't want to overload you with information; if the
>> sticky-notes project looks interesting let me know and I can get a
>> ticket for it assigned to you, otherwise let's chat more about potential
>> UX projects?
>>
>> ~m
>>
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